Keynote Speakers

Nature’s Blueprint: Water-Enabled Functionality in Hierarchically Porous Materials

Professor Patrick Huber is an expert in materials science and condensed matter physics. In his crossdisplinary keynote lecture he will focus on the role of water and fluid dynamics in "blue materials", that reveal their functionality in water or aqueous environments.

Professor Patrick Huber obtained a PhD in Physics from Saarland University (Germany) and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University, Cambridge (USA). He was appointed as an associate professor at Pontifical Catholic University, Santiago de Chile (Chile) and at Hamburg University of Technology (Germany), where he was later appointed as full professor and director of the Institute for Materials and X-Ray Physics. He also heads a group on High-Resolution X-ray Analytics at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and is moreover spokesperson of the Centre for Molecular Water Science and the Cluster of Excellence BlueMat: Water-Driven Materials.

Water and sanitation in Greenland

The research of Pernille Erland Jensen focusses on environmental engineering solutions for Arctic communities including handling of wastewater and organic waste fractions, and remediation of contaminated grounds. In her keynote lecture she will provide fascinating insights into wastewater management in artic regions and her research on Greenland.

Pernille Erland Jensen is an associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark since 2014. She even obtained her PhD at the Technical University of Denmark in the group of Electrochemistry in Civil Engineering.

Northern hydropower in Swedish industrializations - future visions and legacies

Dag Avango’s research is situated at the intersection of archaeology and history, combining theoretical perspectives and methods from history, archaeology, critical heritage studies, and STS. His research has primarily focused on the emergence and decline of natural resource use and extraction, and on the interaction between resource industries, geopolitics, local communities, and the environment. Another related field of research concerns heritage processes and the politics of memory. Avango’s work has mainly focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic.

Dag Avango is professor and head of subject for History at Luleå University of Technology. He is also the Director of the Centre for the Arctic and Antarctic at LTU. He obtained a PhD in history of technology from teh Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.