Welcome to ReThink: the podcast offered to you by The Private Investment Group, that brings together bright minds, thought-leadership insight, and inspiring sustainable development actions. With each guest, we want to inspire action and provoke talks that matter.

 

Episode 2 of the podcast, "Renewables - the cheapest source of power" is dedicated to topics such as Net-zero Economy, SDG7:Clean Energy, Turning challenges into opportunities, Cutting-edge technologies, Long-term objectives.

 

About the guest: Dr. Nicolas Calvet, Founder, and Chair of the Masdar Institute Solar Platform (MISP) first facility in the UAE dedicated to concentrated solar power & thermal energy storage R&D. Professor of Sustainable Energy at Khalifa University. Representing the UAE at the SolarPACES Executive Committee, part of the International Energy Agency. Entrepreneur. Co-founder of Seramic Materials, pioneer in recycled ceramics.

 

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Nicolas obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering Science (Energy and Environment) in 2010 at the PROMES CNRS Laboratory in France. His thesis was about different thermal energy storage (TES) materials and processes, using latent and sensible heat from low to high temperatures.

 

In 2011, he joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in USA working on heat transfer fluids in the concentrated solar power (CSP) group. In 2012, he joined the CIC Energigune Energy Cooperative Research Centre in Spain where he kept working on thermal energy storage materials and systems.

 

Finally, in 2013, he joined Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the United Arab Emirates as an Assistant Professor. He is the chair of the Masdar Institute Solar Platform, the first research, and development platform in the UAE, entirely dedicated to CSP and TES. Finally, he is the official UAE representative alternate at the SolarPACES Executive Committee, a technology collaboration program from the International Energy Agency (IEA).