First visit of the International Forum on Energy and Circular Economy in Darmstadt

Postdocs and PhD students invited to visit Clean Circles

2024/03/19

Multifaceted perspectives on energy and sustainability: Clean Circles has for the first time invited R1/2 researchers to leverage the potential of a diverse and interconnected research community at the Clean Circles International Forum on Energy and Circular Economy.

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Visit of the pilot power plant at EST. From left to right: Falko Marx, Dr. Fatima-Zahra Azar, Sanaz Zarabi, Andrès Arriagada, Dr. Ahmad Auzani.
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Visit of the pilot power plant. From left to right: Dr. Ahmad Auzani, Dr. Fatima-Zahra Azar, Dr. Marius Schmidt (Clean Circles), Sanaz Zarabi, Andrès Arriagada, Kanakasree Shivaprasad (Clean Circles).
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Prof Michèle Knodt (middle) with forum participants Dr Ahmad Auzani, Dr Fatima-Zahra Azar, Andrés Arriagada and Sanaz Zarabi at the Institute for Political Science at the TU Darmstadt
Picture: Andrés Arriagada

Start of the Clean Circles Retreat 2024 in Weinheim.

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Over four days, the participants visited the scientists from Clean Circles in Darmstadt. The four research fields introduced themselves with laboratory tours and presentations. In addition, the Forum participants presented their research topics. This year's Clean Circles retreat then took place together in Weinheim with many fruitful discussions. Energy research, sustainability and new energy carriers as well as culture around Darmstadt – four multifaceted and exciting days.

The International Interdisciplinary Forum for Energy and Circular Economy offers young researchers the opportunity to get involved in the unique research environment of Clean Circles, accompanied by individual mentoring from senior scientists.

The program started in summer 2023 and will run for two years.

Current participants of the forum are

Dr. Ahmad Auzani from Indonesia holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield (UK).
Dr. Fatima-Zahra Azar from Morocco obtained her Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Alicante in Spain with a focus on catalytic biomass conversion. She is a Researcher at the University of Mohammed VI Polytechnics (Morocco).
Andrés Arriagada from Chile is a Ph.D. student at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Chile), Department of Mechanical Engineering, and at the University of Alberta (Canada), Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering.
Sanaz Zarabi from Iran is currently in the 4th year of her Ph.D. program in the Department of Applied Physics at Aalto University (Finland).
Tom Hunger from Germany is a doctoral student at Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC, Germany) in the Faculty of Economics and is researching environmental economics and sustainability.
Aravind Ravi from India is doing his doctorate in mechanical engineering at TU Eindhoven (Netherlands) on the numerical investigation of iron flames.

International Interdisciplinary Forum on Energy and Circular Economy