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Energy and Environment Forum 2025

Welcome to the Energy and Environment Forum 2025! This is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the green transition seen from different perspectives presented by a mix of UiO researchers, students and external contributions. This event is free and open for all!

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Are you interested in how researchers and students at the University of Oslo are working with climate, energy and environment transition?

Join us at this conference to explore a wide range of cutting-edge topics in sustainable energy - including community perspectives of wind energy, large-scale CO2 storage, green methanol, circular economy and more.

The event is free and open for all but registration is required.

Register here

Program

10:00-11:05 Opening session

  • Welcome by Vebj?rn Bakken, director at UiO:Energy and Environment
  • Opening by pro-rector Bj?rn Jamtveit
  • Keynote: Steffen Kallbekken, Research Director for the climate economics group, CICERO, "International climate policy development"
  • Keynote: Solrun Figenschau Skjellum, Chief Development Officer (CDO) at NIVA, "Energy and nature - a necessary balancing act"
  • Q&A with the audience

11:05-11:20 Short break

11:20-12:15 Energy transition and the environment

  • Chris Erik Mohn, researcher at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Chemistry and participant in the thematic research group DENT

  • Marianne Zeyringer and Maja van der Velden, project leader and member of the convergence environment EMPOWER, “Sustainable EV batteries? Insights from the EMPOWER project”

  • Andrea Joslyn Nightingale, professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and principal investigator of the thematic research group UNRULY SUSTAINABILITY, "Unruliness in Energy Systems: Governing for an Uncertain Future"

  • Stephen Gary Williams, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, will provide an artistic contribution.

12:15-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Student pitching competition

  • Eli Holm H?gemo and Ragnhild Sickel. Master students involved with a summer project. "Scandinavian climate during the little ice age: did a volcanic eruption trigger Norway's largest flood?" 
  • Benjamin Kobbevik, master student at the Department of psychology "Unlocking Electric Vehicle (EV) Potential: Psychology and Norway’s Energy Transition"
  • Muhammad Salman, doctoral research fellow at the Section for Energy Systems. "Green Hydrogen from Air"
  • King Men Teoh, doctoral research fellow at the Department of private law, "Pillars of the Green Transition: The Legal Imperative for a Circular EV Battery Value Chain"
  • Julie Brun, doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology. "Waste to Fuel"
  • Rigas Karampasis, master student involved with a summer project. "Current Currents' Currencies: Making Balancing Markets Audible in Norwegian Hydropower"
  • Lee Xun, master student at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology. "Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) as a cathode material for Li-ion batteries"
  • Josephine McGarvey, An Deip Vo, Andrea Provenzano and J?han Utnes. Master students involved with a summer project. “A Digital Minerals Library for the Twin Transition”

14:00-15:00 People, society and climate

15:00-15:20 Short break

15:20-16:30 A carbon-neutral society

16:15-17:00 Closing remarks

  • The RESULTS research group wraps up the conference with an interactive exercise on sustainability and presentation of their main findings

17:00-19:00 Dinner and mingling

Published May 12, 2025 1:25 PM - Last modified Sep. 19, 2025 12:48 PM