Carbon capture and storage: A new frontier in clean tech?

Carina Faber
Carina’s expertise is on alternative fuels and chemicals made from renewable energy. The considered technologies electricity-based approaches to disruptive approaches where sunlight is directly stored into chemical energy. This is complemented by the utilisation of alternative feedstock, such as carbon dioxide or wastewater. At the EIC, she deploys strategic intelligence methods to access the full potential of these emerging technologies. Her background is on computational materials science, with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. From 2020-22, she co-leads a 2-years R&I program on e-fuels for ENGIE. In 2019, during a post-doctoral fellowship at UCLouvain, she leads the development of a technological roadmap on artificial photosynthesis within the EU large-scale initiative SUNRISE.  

Chris Davies
Chris is Director of CCS Europe, a Brussels-based political advocacy and campaigns body that works to raise the awareness of EU policymakers to the need for carbon capture and storage deployment to reduce CO2 emissions from hard-to-abate industries and reduce concentrations of the gas already in the atmosphere. 
He was a Member of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2020, and was rapporteur for the CO2 Storage Directive in 2008/9. 

Paul Fennell
Professor of Clean Energy at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, Paul has published more than 100 papers in the field of clean energy, including papers in Energy and Environmental Science, Science, and Nature, with more than 20,000 citations and with an h-factor of 58. His work was cited more than 20 times in the most recent IPCC assessment report. In 2015 he was awarded the IChemE Ambassador prize. He is also the President of the Imperial College Chemical Engineering Society.  

Viola Becattini
Viola plays a central role in developing the CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal) provider’s business model, with a special focus on new technological streams such as mineralization of CO2 in the underground. Viola holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich, where she is, next to her role at neustark, engaged as a senior scientist. She is one of the co-creators of the DemoUpCARMA pilot project, implementing CO2 management solutions by capturing, transporting and permanently storing CO2 via mineralization both in demolition concrete and in the underground. In 2022, she was recognized as one of the MIT European Innovators Under 35.