Students, employees and industry are invited to an inspiration day on future-focused education, career paths and research at NTNU – Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT).

EPT Day 2026

Welcome to an inspiration day on future-focused education, career paths and research at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT), NTNU.  

• When: 22 January, 09.00-15.00 
• Where: KJL1 in Kjelhuset, Gløshaugen, NTNU
• For: All, with a special invitation to students, alumni, industry and employees
• Cost: Free
• Lunch is served to pre-registered guests (first come, first served)
• Registration: TBA

PROGRAMME - SHORT VERSION

09:00 – 11:00 Future-focused research at EPT

11:00 – 12:00 Lunch 

12:00 – 14:00 Green career paths, with stories from current students and alumni

14:00 – 15:00 Lab tours

PROGRAMME IN DETAIL

08.45 – 09.00 Registration

09:00 – 11:00 Future-focused research from NTNU - Department of Energy and Process Engineering

• Welcome and intro: How is EPT contributing to the green transition by Francesca Verones (chair), Professor and Head of Department (interim)
• Nuclear engineering, thermal energy storage and electronics cooling: Ongoing research in the Multiphase Flow and Thermal Engineering Laboratory (MFTEL) by Il Woong Park, Assistant Processor at Inha University in South Korea
• Thermo Fluids: research highlights - TBA
• Industrial Ecology: Research highlights - TBA

10.00 - 10.15 Break

• Introduction by Francesca Verones (chair), Professor
• Batteries: How to accelerate a sustainable and circular battery value chain in Norway by Jacob Joseph Lamb, Associate Professor
• Process and Power: research highlights - Armin Hafner, Professor
• Calculate your food recipes' impact with our new web app for biodiversity and environment by Silvan Goldenberg, researcher

11:00 - 12: 00 Lunch 

12:00 - 14:00 Green career paths, stories from EPT alumni

• Welcome and intro: Student life and work life at EPT by Ignat Tolstorebrov (chair), Associate Professor
• Building Bridges for Women in STEM: Inside EPT Women in Science by Corinna Schulze-Netzer, Associate Professor
• From theory to rocket launch at Propulse NTNU by Stian Alseth
• What EPT taugth us and what we plan to do with it by current students (TBA)
• Discussion led by Ignat Tolstorebrov

12:45 - 13:00 Break

• Welcome and intro: Stories from EPT alumni by Ignat Tolstorebrov (char), Associate Professor
• Sustainably producing food at BioMar by Helen Hamilton, Global Sustainability Manager at BioMar
• Powerhouse (ZEB buildings) by Bjørn Jenssen, Chief Advisor at SKANSKA
• Smart thermal energy storage, technology from Gløshaugen by Håkon Selvnes, CPO and founder at Cartesian
• CO₂ and LH2 by Yannick Jooss, Research Scientist at SINTEF Energy
• Summing up and intro to lab tour by Ignat Tolstorebrov

14:00 - 15:00 Lab tour

• Waterpower lab 
• Fluid Mechanics lab (wind tunnel and water channel)
• Thermal Energy Lab:
  • Cooling and heating (heat pump processes)
  • Batteries
  • Indoor environment and climate control of buildings (including CO₂ heat pumps for building heating and the operating room of the future) 
  • Combustion and carbon-free fuels (ammonia, hydrogen)

Welcome!

During this event, NTNU will take photographs. Photo‑free zones will be set up on the back rows of the auditorium for anyone who does not wish to be photographed.

Photo collage from EPT Day 2022, 2023 and 2024. Photos: by Maren Agdestein/NTNU and Per Henning/NTNU.