The Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering (LRESE) at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) hosts world-leading research into coupled multi-physics and multi-scale reactor and device modelling; modelling-based guidelines for design and engineering of reactors; numerical simulations of chemical reactions; and the optimisation of reactors.

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Prof. Sophia Haussener leads the LRESE. Her current research is focused on providing design guidelines for thermal, thermochemical, and photoelectrochemical energy conversion reactors through multi-physics modelling and experimentation.

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Dr Etienne Boutin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering (LRESE) at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL). He carries out his research project under the supervision of Professor Sophia Haussener. In the frame of the FlowPhotoChem project, he is developing a lab-scale demonstrator for CO2 photoelectrochemical reduction into CO under highly concentrated solar light.

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Alexandre Cattry is a doctoral student in the energy program of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL). His research is supervised by Prof. Sophia Haussener, Head of Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering. As part of the FlowPhotoChem project, Alexandre is working on a multi-dimensional and multi-physics photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction model.  

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Nathaniel Mutrux is a technical specialist in mechanical and microengineering of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL). His activities are supervised by Prof. Sophia Haussener, Head of Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering. As part of the FlowPhotoChem project, Nathaniel is working on the large-scale photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation plant.  

Dr Clemens Suter is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering (LRESE) at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL). He carries out his research project under the supervision of Professor Sophia Haussener. In the frame of the FlowPhotoChem project, he is responsible for the integration of the large-scale reactor into complete ethylene production system.