The May speaker is Sophia Haussener, Assistant Professor of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering at the EPFL, a world-leading engineering school based here in Lausanne.

Professor Sophia Haussener heads the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering (LRESE) in the STI, the School of Engineering. Her team is carrying out research on using renewable energies (solar, wind, biomass, hydro and geothermal) to produce fuels, materials and commodities that are storable. Indeed, the great challenge with electricity once it has been generated, is to know how to store it.

A winner of several special awards, the ABB Forschungspreis in 2012, the  Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize in 2011 and the 2011 ETH Medal, her specialities are thermal sciences, fluid dynamics and thermo-, electro- and photochemistry.

She will be speaking to us about renewable energy projects, both globally and in Switzerland.

As for past General Meetings, we are retaining the Doodle link for registering as it allows people to add non-members to the list.