External Advisory Board

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EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD

The External Advisory Board

The role of our external advisory board is to reflect with the coordinator and the project scientists on the direction and approach. Together they support us to reflect on the political, societal and business context of the project, techno-economic disciplines and computer modelling.

The ambitions for European society and for Europe’s leadership on global transformation
The business opportunity for industry to realize society’s ambitions through investments and divestments
Process systems engineering
Unlocking of industry feedstock from circular and renewable origin
The generation and distribution of clean or renewable energy
The analysis of transformation pathways by integrated computer models

AMIGDALA and its sister project TRANSIENCE have a seat in each other’s advisory boards to seek alignment and exploit synergies.

Pierre Joris

Pierre Joris | LinkedIn

Pierre Joris is Engineer in Physics from education, holding a M.Sc. from the University of Stanford, and an Advanced Executive degree from Kellogg's School of Management, Chicago.

Pierre has 36 years of international operational experience in the Chemical Industry. He built his career for 30 years at Solvay, where he held different leadership positions in R&D, Corporate and Global Business Management. He completed his career as Chief Innovation Officer for the group and was then recruited as Senior Executive Advisor to the Chemical division of Daikin for more than 6 years.

Pierre holds now non-executive roles as Senior Partner at JF Chemical Associates, Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, and is independent board member at various companies in the field of materials and chemicals, including Domo Chemicals. In this last tenure, he has been from March 2019 to 2025, chairman of A.SPIRE, a European cross-sectorial association partnering with the European Commission on the financing of Research& Innovation for the transition of the Energy Intensive Industries in Europe.

Prof. André Bardow

André Bardow | LinkedIn

Research area: Energy systems optimization, conceptual process design, life cycle assessment, computer-aided molecular design, thermodynamics, microfluidics and CO₂ capture & utilization.

André Bardow has been full professor for Energy and Process Systems Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2020. Previously, he was a professor and head of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at RWTH Aachen University (2010-2020) and associate professor at TU Delft (2007-2010). He was also in part-time director of the Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-10) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany (2017-2022). He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2015/16). He earned his Ph.D. degree at RWTH Aachen University.

Prof. Bardow is a fellow of the Royal Chemical Society and chaired the Technical Committee for Thermodynamics of VDI – The Association of German Engineers from 2016 to 2024. He received the Recent Innovative Contribution Award of the CAPE-Working Party of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) in 2019, and the PSE Model-Based Innovation (MBI) Prize by Process Systems Enterprise in 2018. He was the first recipient of the Covestro Science Award. He received the Arnold-Eucken-Award of the VDI-Society for Chemical Engineering (GVC) and was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2024 . He is the recipient of RWTH’s “FAMOS für Familie” award for family-friendly leadership, and of teaching awards at RWTH and TU Delft.

Louis Meuleman

Louis Meuleman | LinkedIn

Louis Meuleman has a PhD in public administration and an MSc in environmental biology. His research focuses on sustainability (meta)governance and public management, and more specifically how bureaucracies can overcome barriers of, and combine hierarchical, network and market governance styles, when dealing with complex challenges of transitions towards sustainability.

He is Visiting Professor at the Public Governance Institute of the University of Leuven in Belgium, Vice-Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration CEPA (2018-2025), Acting Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, and Board member of the Club of Rome EU-Chapter.

As former public manager on environmental sustainability at subnational, national ad EU level, and director of a former science-policy council in the Netherlands, he is passionate about making science and policy work together, about better understanding the long-term challenges, the drivers of change and linkages between them. He is an experienced moderator and speaker on sustainability, interactive policymaking and communication.

Since his retirement from European commission per 2021, he has done advisory work with his think tank Public Strategy for Sustainable Development (PS4SD), for among others the European Commission, the European Environment Agency, OECD, Council of Europe, UNITAR, UNEP, WWF, national governments (e.g. Germany, Romania, Cyprus), and cities (through URBACT).

Contact: louismeuleman@ps4sd.eu and www.ps4sd.eu

Konstantinos Koasidis

Koasidis Konstantinos | EPU-NTUA

Dr. Konstantinos Koasidis is a Senior Researcher at the Energy Policy Unit of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He holds a M.Eng. in electrical & computer engineering and a PhD in decision support tools for climate change mitigation, both from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NTUA.

He has experience in developing decision tools to support energy and climate policies for climate change mitigation, including integrated assessment models, operational research frameworks, such as multi-criteria decision aid, group-decision and consensus making, multi-objective programming, fuzzy cognitive maps, and socio-technical transition and innovation frameworks. His research focuses on applying said tools to co-create policies with stakeholders through a transdisciplinary lens to respond to crises in energy, industrial and climate policy; evaluate the impact of policies towards achieving long-term climate targets; shed light on the interplay of climate change mitigation with the sustainable development agenda; and implement plans for a just energy transition and alleviate energy poverty. Finally, he has worked on and managed European and national projects in the fields of energy policy and climate action and has more than 35 scientific publications in high-impact international journals and books, as well as dozens of announcements in national and international conferences.

He is currently part of the management team and quality manager of Horizon Europe TRANSIENCE

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