The Grand Solutions Committee for the Green Transition

The committee is composed of six impact experts with the competencies to assess the commercial and strategic potential for Denmark of Grand Solutions applications, and five internationally recognised researchers with the competencies to assess the quality of the applications’ research and innovation at an international level.

All members possess solid and extensive knowledge and recent experience within one or more specific professional areas related to the committee’s theme, including the following domains:

• Energy production
• Energy efficiency
• Agriculture and food production
• Transport
• Construction
• Environment
• Circular economy
• Nature and biodiversity
• Sustainable behaviour and societal impacts.

The list is not exhaustive.

The professional areas reflect the political priorities under which Innovation Fund Denmark awards funding, which are decided annually in connection with the adoption of the annual Finance Act.

The committee as a whole has also been established with a focus on ensuring diversity in both societal and professional terms.

Committee members

Claus Hviid Christensen (Chair)
CEO, Nexus and Affiliated Professor, AU

Eva Johansson (Vice-Chair)
Professor, Department of Plant Breeding, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Charles Brennan
Pro Vice Chancellor, Otago University, NZ.

Christian Tillegreen
Director of Planetary Health, BII

Emmanuel Defay
Group Leader, Univsersité du Luxembourg, LU

Frederik Taarnhøj
Co-founder, FP AQUA AS

J.H. (Han) de Winde
Professor, Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, NL

Karine Salin
Chargé de recherche, Laboratoire des Sciences de L’environnement Marin, FR

Koen Kok
Professor, Eindhoven University of Tehnology, NL

Lone Feifer
Director, Sustainable Buildings, VELUX

Morten Gjetting Stage
CEO, CUPAH

Pierre Pinson
Professor, Imperial College London

Preben Jørgensen
Expertise Director, MSc EE, PhD, HD/O, NIRAS

Ramteen Sioshansi
Professor & Associtate Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Rolf Johnsen
Head of Climate and Energy, Aarhus Municipality

Thomas Nagy
CEO, Nagy Consult ApS

Ulla Sparre
Executive Advisor

Verena Siewers
Research Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Vittorio Bellani
Professor, University of Pavia, IT