Dr. Baldur ELIASSON Department Head, ABB's Energy and Global Change Program worldwide
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| 1958 | -66 studied electrical engineering and astronomy at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich |
| Doctoral thesis in the departments of electrical engineering and numerical mathematics at the same university on a theoretical subject regarding propagation of microwaves | |
| 1966 | -69 radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, investigated the emissions of radio waves from molecular clouds within our galaxy |
| 1969 | return to Switzerland, started to work in the newly founded Brown Boveri Research Center on theoretical subjects in physics, optics, laser theory, holography, scattering, electrical discharges and environmental technologies |
| 1988 | after the merger of Asea of Sweden and Brown Boveri of Switzerland to form ABB occupied with global environmental issues, full time starting in 1991 |
| Today in charge of ABB's Energy and Global Change Program worldwide, representing ABB in a number of international programs, such as the China Energy Technology Program together with the Alliance for Global Sustainability and as vice chairman of the International Energy Agency's "R&D Program on Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Technologies" | |
| Guest professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of Tianjin University in Tianjin, China | |
| Steering Committee of two Greenhouse Gas Chemistry Laboratories that ABB runs jointly with Tsinghua University and Tianjin University in China |
Mitgliedschaften
| Steering Committee of an International Project on Ocean Sequestration of CO2 in Hawaii and Norway | |
| Review Panel of the US Department of Energy's Program on Climate Technologies | |
| Review Panel of the Swiss National Foundation's Climate Program | |
| G8 Advisory Board on Renewable Technologies |
Auszeichnungen
| 2001 Special ABB Award for "Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Affairs" | |
| 2001 3rd Hai He Medal of the Government of the City of Tianjin | |
| 2001 Climate Technology Award by the International Energy Agency in Paris for "Excellence in Leadership" for introducing climate technologies in developing countries |
