All Personnel
All Personnel
Core Team

Aud Nina Wærnes, SINTEF Industri
Centre Director

Kristian Etienne Einarsrud, NTNU
RD1 Leader

RD2 Leader

Anne Kvithyld, SINTEF Industri
RD3 Leader

RD4 Leader

Casper Van der Eijk, SINTEF Industri
RD5 Leader

Coordinator
Excecutive Committee
Ida Westermann, NTNU
Excecutive Committee Leader
Ketil Rye, Alcoa
Process Technology Manager
Marit Dolmen, Elkem
Department Manager Process Development
Ulrik Thisted, NORCE
Senior Scientist
Nancy Holt, Hydro
Senior Scientist
Benjamin Ravary, Eramet
R&D Manager
Eli Aamot, SINTEF Industri
Executive Vice President
Oddvar Gorset, NFR
Senior Advisor
General Assembly
Nancy Holt, Hydro
Senior Scientist, General Assembly Leader
Benjamin Ravary, Eramet
R&D Director
Ketil Rye, Alcoa
Process Technology Manager
Marit Dolmen, Elkem
Department Manager Process Development
Anders Sørhuus, Reel Norway AS
Product Technology Manager
Ida Westermann, NTNU
Head of Department, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Aud Wærnes, SINTEF Industry
Senior Business Developer
Oddvar Gorset, RCN
Senior Advisor
Haavard Elstad, TiZir
R&D Leader
Karin Jusnes, Finnfjord
Process engineer
Ulrik Thisted, NORCE
Senior Scientist
Nina Dahl, SINTEF Industry
Vice President
Petter Nekså, SINTEF Energy
Chief Scientist
Torbjørn Halland, Wacker
CEO
Scientific Committee

Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology and
SMS-Group GmbH in Düsseldorf , Germany

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Seoul National University, South Korea

IF Steelman, France
Key Researchers
R1

Modelling, Primary Aluminum Production
Mathematical Modelling

Modelling, Library

Modelling

Modelling
Mathematical Modelling

Primary Aluminum Production, Carbon Materials
R2
Si/FeSi and Mn-alloys Production, Raw Materials

Trace Element in Aluminum Production
Primary Aluminum Prouction

Si/FeSi and Mn-alloys Production, Raw Materials

Si/FeSi and Mn-alloys Production, Raw Materials
Iron and Ferromanganese Production, Raw Materials, Slag Processes

Electrolysis, Primary Aluminium Production
R3

Aluminum Refining and Recycling

Aluminum Refining and Recycling
Aluminum Refining and Recycling
Aluminum Oxidation
R4
Production of Ferroalloys, Emissions and Environmental Issues

Emissions and Environmental Challenges
Heat Recovery, Heat Exchangers
Heat Recovery, Heat Exchangers

Heat Recovery, Heat Exchangers
Emissions and Environmental Challenges

Emissions and Environmental Challenges

Dust and Emissions
Emissions and environmental challenges

Emissions and Environmental Challenges
R5

Materials and Society
Materials and Society, Sustainable Metallurgy
Materials and Society
PhD and Post Doctorial Researchers
Post Doctorial
Influence of structure on slag viscosity
Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
Recycling and Refining of Metallurgical Waste Streams
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
Modelling Metallurgical Production Process
Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
Waste stream
March 2019 - May 2021
Vincent Canaguier
SiMn process, reactions and kinetics
Aug 2018 - Aug 2020
PAH Standardization
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
PhD Candidates
Ceramic Foam Filters Used in Molten Al Filtration
Oct 2015 - Des 2018
Si Refining
Aug 2016 - Aug 2021
Scaling in Al Off-Gas Channels/Heat Exchangers
Sept 16 - May 21
Material Flow Analysis of Al
Aug17 - Dec 22
Alumina Dissolution in Cryolite
Aug18 - Jan 23
Dross Formation in Al Alloys
Aug18 - Nov 22
Reduction Mechanisms in the SiMn Process
Sept 2015 - Sept 2018
SiC Formation in Silicon Processes
Aug 2015 - Oct 2020
Smelting phenomena of ilmenite
Oct 2018 - May 2021
Dust Formation and Clustering
Aug 2016 - May 2021
Hydrocarbon Emission from the Metallurgical Industry
Aug 2018 - June 2023

Mathematical Modelling of Alumina Dissolution
Shared PhD with the University of Oxford
Jan 2017- Jan 2021
Effect of Minor Elements on Al Oxidation
Sept 2015 - Sept 2018
Si Production
Aug 2019 - Sept 2023
Associated PhD and Postdoc
Quartz
Modelling
Alumina Production
Inclusion removal from Al-melts
Manganese
Modelling
FeSi
Charcoal for Manganese Production






























