Jan Skjoldhammer is the founder and the creative mind behind the unique NoviOcean concept and CEO of Novige AB. Aside from the strategic decision-making and being the face of Novige AB, Jan has been deeply involved in all technical and practical issues related to the development, scaling up, and validation of the NoviOcean technology. […]
The best decisions are made based upon information that is accurate, comprehensive and up to date. That’s why Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, a program of Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy, on 20 September put out a Request for Information (RFI) on the market size and technological status of four key technology sectors whose rapid development in the […]
Simone Staal Kibæk, Director of the Zero-Emission Shipping Mission In June, the first three MI Missions were launched. All are now working toward ambitious goals to rapidly scale up clean energy and clean transportation solutions. Simone Staal Kibæk, director of the Zero-Emission Shipping Mission, was recently interviewed by the Mission Innovation team. Simone is […]
Yoshiki Takagiwa, Japan’s 2020 MI champion, is a principal researcher and independent scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Tokyo. From 2009 to 2015, he was an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. He joined as permanent researcher […]
Dr. Malak Al-Nory is an advisor of Sustainability and Climate Change in the Saudi Ministry of Energy. She is an expert in clean energy and clean water integration, innovative solutions, and strategic planning. She is an established researcher with published research collaborations with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and others. She is an […]
The Innovation Community on Affordable Heating and Cooling of Buildings is part of MI’s COLLABORATE module of the Innovation Platform. Our work builds upon recent innovation successes including the Global Cooling Prize, the Comfort and Climate Box and the Predictive Maintenance and Optimisation Project, which involved 50 partners across 15 countries. Our vision is to […]
Anna Skarbek is CEO of ClimateWorks Australia, having led the non-profit since its creation in 2009. A former banker, policy adviser and lawyer, she is also a board member of Impact Investment Group, Green Building Council of Australia and the Centre for New Energy Technologies, and was a founding director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Previously, Anna worked in London’s carbon markets […]
Previous MI funding calls focused on storage and the digital transition The MICall series is one of the four initiatives of the Mission Innovation Platform’s COLLABORATE Module. The MICall series started in 2019 with a transnational joint call for proposals (MICall19) in the field of Energy Storage Solutions. The idea of a joint call is to increase the participation from a wider section of society both to identify the needs of […]
Dr Sang Jun Sim (middle) in his lab. Dr Sang Jun Sim is a professor at Korea University in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He has dedicated 20 years to developing carbon capture technologies using microalgae. From the development of the core technologies to the demonstration of large-scale CO2 conversion into value-added products […]
José Amador Honorato Salazar is Mexico’s Mission Innovation Champion for 2020. Amador is a research scientist at the Experimental Centre, Puebla of the National Research Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP). He is a forest engineer with a major in forest industries technology from Chapingo Autonomous University, and received a PhD in wood science from […]