Ang猫le Reinders
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Ang猫le Reinders is a professor of 'Design of Sustainable Energy Systems' at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Eindhoven University of Technology. She aims at an optimal use and integration of sustainable energy technologies in products, buildings and local infrastructures. In this design-driven research theme improved designs of sustainable energy systems are explored and also developed by means of simulation, prototyping and testing. A strong interest exists in optimized applications of solar energy technologies in the context of buildings and mobility and affiliated energy technologies that support storage, enhanced user interactions and flexibility of sustainable energy.
My aim is to enhance design-driven research on sustainable energy products and systems to support the energy transition
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Ang猫le Reinders studied experimental physics at Utrecht University, where she also received her doctoral degree in chemistry. At present her research has a design-driven scope and as such it is trans-disciplinary, with a focus on performance of energy technologies, environmental aspects, user interactions as well as prototyping and testing of innovative energy products.
Ang猫le Reinders was the Director of Solliance (2023-2024) besides a part-time professorship at 果冻传媒 (2018-2024), and an Associate Professor at University of Twente (2002-2023). From 2010 to 2017 she was appointed as a full professor of Energy Efficient Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in TU Delft. In the past she conducted research at - among others - Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy in Freiburg, the World Bank (2000) in Washington, D.C., ENEA (2010) in Naples, Center of Urban Energy (2013-2014) in Toronto and in the remote areas of Papua in Indonesia. Also she was a visiting professor at the School of Photovoltaics & Renewable Energy Engineering of UNSW in Sydney (2019-2023).
She is known for her books at Wiley鈥檚 鈥淭he Power of Design鈥� (2012) and 鈥淧hotovoltaic Solar Energy From Fundamentals to Applications鈥� (Volume 1 in 2017, Volume 2 in 2024) and her involvement in the IEEE PVSC conference which she chaired in 2014 and 2017. In 2010 she co-founded the Journal of Photovoltaics for which she serves as an editor. In 2014 she received the PVSC Napkin Award in the USA for her contributions to the field of solar photovoltaics. Also she is involved in various tasks of the International Energy Agency PVPS program among which Task 17 on PV for Transport and Task 1 on Strategic PV Analysis & Outreach.
Projects which she has been leading range from design-driven research projects on solar powered mobility to applied PV research at Solliance to exclusively research-oriented projects like her ongoing work on Luminescent Solar Concentrator Photovoltaics (LSC PV), COST Action PEARL PV, , and ERA-Net Smart Grid Plus Project CESEPS, .
Key Publications
Design-driven research on photovoltaic applications
Ang猫le Reinders research focuses on the integration of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy technologies in mobility, buildings, infrastructures and our environment by applying a design-driven approach. In it, she combines technical research with other relevant disciplines (such as industrial design and socio-economics) to create products and systems that people actually can and like to use. Reinders strongly believes that the sustainable energy revolution can only be successful if engineers take into account human factors, societal context, financial aspects and design and styling.
At present her design-driven research has three core pillars: (1) luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) technologies, (2) performance and reliability assessments of solar systems and (3) solar powered mobility. Her applied research on ranges from to advanced geometrical designs, which have both great design features (color, transparency, form) and high efficiency. The performance of these and other integrated PV modules are tested in the 果冻传媒鈥檚 large area solar simulator.
with more than 250 researchers from 37 countries across Europe, she investigates the long-term yields of PV systems in different climates and in various hybrid system contexts, using big data analytics, simulations and machine learning techniques.
Her research on PV-powered mobility focusses on solar-powered electric cars and solar charging stations. In this research she works together with Lightyear, Toyota, TNO, IM Efficiency and Forschungszentrum J眉lich. More details about Reinders鈥� work can be found Or check out her recent book (2020).
Ancillary Activities
- Supervision PhD student, University of Twente
- National expert, International Energy Agency PVPS Task 1