Celsius Talk: The Celsius Forerunner Groups

Coordinator of the Celsius Initiative at Johanneberg Science Park

With over 20 years of experience working for the city of Gothenburg, Katrina has an overall strategic managing perspective including the contact with the EU Commission. She has great knowledge in the fields of policy and planning as well as the know-how of working with climate and energy issues in an EU context. Her prior role as coordinator of the initial CELSIUS project has made her known as the “Mother of Celsius” in soe circles.

Senior Project Developer at the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)

With over 20 years of experience as a Sustainability Strategist for Umeå Energi in the North of Sweden, Henrik is now the head energy systems expert for the Celsius Initiative.

Energy Systems Analyst at Codema – Dublin’s Energy Agency

With a long experience in district energy, energy master-planning, techno economic analysis and sustainable business case development, John is now responsible for the development of a heat source map for Dublin and a Transition Roadmap for South Dublin – providing technical advice, partaking in stakeholder engagement, developing procurement strategy and evaluation, and performing whole-life cost benefit analysis for proposed DH systems in Dublin.

Policy Officer at Euroheat & Power

As a policy officer within the energy policy team, she covers efficiency and decarbonisation of the District Heating & Cooling sector across several files ETS, industrial emissions, renewable energy directive. Within EHP Waste Heat Task Force, she is working together with members to exchange and map out the potential and challenges for waste heat utilisation.

Project & Communication Officer at Euroheat & Power

Aksana has in her portfolio a number of EU funded projects (such as Sunstore4, SDHPlus, STRATEGO, Heat Roadmap Europe 4, ReUseHeat and Upgrade DH) with leading roles in communication and dissemination activities.