Member of committees

• PhD Examination Committee of PhD candidates at Stellenbosch University (2026), Lund University (2025) and UU (2024).
• Faculty Council of Geosciences since September 2024.
• Accreditation panel for new Bachelor programme Science Technology & Innovation UvA, NVAO (2023)
• Advisory committee for H2020 project RE4Industry (2021-2023) https://re4industry.eu/re4industry-committee-nl/
• Technical Program Committee of 4th-9th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Green Energy (CEEGE) in Munich, Berlin, Grimstad, Los Angeles and Yangzhou (2021-2026). (http://ceege.org/)
• International Technical Committee of the 1st and 2nd International Conference on Power and Renewable Energy Engineering (PREE) in Tokyo (2023) and Sendai (2024). www.pree.net
• Technical Committee of 3rd International Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering (ICPEE) in Singapore (2022). (http://www.icpee.net/)
• Technical Program Committee of the 4th-7th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Engineering (CPESE) (2017-2020) in Berlin, Nagoya, Okinawa and Fukuoka.

Editor and peer reviewer

• Associate Editor of Springer journal “Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy” from 2014-2022.
• Editorial board member of European Journal for Studies in Energy Demand, Efficiency and Resource Use (short: Energy Demand), published by the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE), since 2026.

• Peer reviewer for e.g.: Advances in Applied Energy, Applied Energy, Carbon Management, Climate Policy, Energies, Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy Environment International, Energy Policy, Energy Research & Social Science, Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, Engineering, Environment International, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Heliyon, Hydrogen IEEE Access, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal of Systems Science & Complexity, Mining, Power Engineering Letters, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Mining, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Nature Communications, Nature Energy, Power Engineering Letters, Resources Conservation and Recycling, Science of the Total Environment, Springer Nature, Sustainability, Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Horizons, Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

PhD thesis supervision (copromotor)

• Viola Rühlin (ongoing). Sustainable and circular supply chains in industries.
• Krishnika Saikia (ongoing). Modeling steel flow for transitioning to green steel.
• Annika Boldrini (2025). Role of industrial demand response in low carbon power systems.
• Katerina Kermeli (2021). From baselines to deep reductions. Improving the modeling of industrial energy demand.
• Hui Yue (2020). Saving electricity for a green energy system in China. The pivotal role of industrial energy efficiency to phase out coal, improve air quality and mitigate climate change.
• Jing Hu (2019). Giving the Green Light to the Green: Facilitating the integration of variable renewable electricity into the power system.
• Shaohui Zhang (2016). Energy Efficiency in Industries for Clean Air: Capturing the multiple benefits for climate, air quality, and public health in China.

Conferences and presentations

• Invited expert in “Rond de klok Groen / 24/7 CFE” sessions, with stakeholders from utilities, academia, government and corporate sector. Organised by Platform Energiebewustzijn. 2025 and 2026.
• Keynote lecture on “Past trends and future challenges of energy supply security in the EU” at International conference on the development of Management Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University. 2023.
• International research-oriented workshop on “Comparing Energy Transition in the European Union and China: Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges”. 2023, Macau, China.
  • Presentation in Panel I: A comparative study on the energy transition in the European Union and China: Policies, Trends and Challenges. Title “The development of renewable energy technology in the EU (2000-2022).”
  • Chair of panel II: China’s transitioning toward green energy and its challenges.
• Invited presentation: “In-depth quantification of industrial energy efficiency potentials.” EERA JP EEIP meeting. 20 September 2022.
• Invited presentation: “The Challenges of Energy Transition, Comparing China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the European Union”. International Conference on Experience of EU and Chinese research and investments in new renewable energy sectors. 9 March 2022. International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden.
• Invited presentation: “Trends in energy use and challenges in the European Union” at CASS Forum 2022, Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality conference. 2 December 2022. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.
• Invited presentation: “Impacts of China’s investments on renewable energy technology development in the EU.” The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS). Kyoto Japan. Roundtable Critical Evaluation of the Belt and Road Initiative III: Sustainability Under the Belt and Road Initiative. 27 August 2021.
• Keynote lecture: “Model Analysis of Energy Efficiency Improvement Potential in Industry - Taking Cement Industry as an Example.” International Symposium on Comparison and Improvement of Global Climate Assessment Models. May 2019, Beijing, China. http://www.cideg.tsinghua.edu.cn/info/xsxw/3184
• Invited expert to the IEA-IETS Kick-off Annex "Industrial Electrification" on 6 April 2018 in Amsterdam.
• Invited presentation in panel: Climate Change, Energy and Economy: Europe and China Compared. SDG Conference: Perspectives on Governing by Sustainable Development Goals of Food, Water and Climate. June 2018, UvA, Amsterdam.
• Presentation: “Past and future renewable energy growth rates per world region”. CPESE: International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Engineering. Sep 2016, Kitakyushu, Japan.
• Presentation “External oil supply risks under different scenarios in EU, US, Japan, China and India” 10th Conference on Energy Economics and Technology (“ENERDAY 2015”). April 2015, Dresden, Germany.
• Invited lecture: “Energy challenges in the European Union” at the Institute for Industrial Economics (IEE) of CASS in Beijing in October 2014.
• Opening lecture “Geosciences and energy use; challenges and opportunities”. Near Surface Geoscience 2013. Sep 2013, Bochum, Germany.
• Invited expert to international workshop “The feasibility of transitions in 2 degree scenarios” 25 September 2012, Utrecht. Organised by PBL &UU for FP7 projects RESPONSES and LIMITS. Sep 2012, Utrecht.