Brian Vad Mathiesen (born 10 October 1978) is a Danish

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

and professor at

Aalborg University Aalborg University (AAU) is an international public university with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1974, the university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subje ...

. He was listed among

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researchers in 2015 and 2016, making him one of the leading engineers in the world.

Life and research activity

Mathiesen studied

environmental management Environmental resource management or environmental management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environment ...

at Aalborg university and obtained a MSc. Eng. in 2003. From 2004 to 2005 he worked as an energy and environmental planner, then returned to university. In 2008 he finished his

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

thesis and was named assistant professor at Aalborg University. Besides he served as a guest professor and visiting researcher at

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the Unive ...

. From 2010 to 2013 he was associate professor at Aalborg University and in 2014 he became

full professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors ...

. Mathiesen researches

100% renewable energy 100% renewable energy is the goal of the use renewable resources for all energy. 100% renewable energy for electricity, heating, cooling and transport is motivated by climate change, pollution and other environmental issues, as well as ec ...

systems and paths to transition the energy system to 100% renewable sources. He is also doing feasibility studies and technical energy system analyses and works on ways to base energy systems mainly on

variable renewable energy Variable renewable energy (VRE) or intermittent renewable energy sources (IRES) are renewable energy sources that are not dispatchable due to their fluctuating nature, such as wind power and solar power, as opposed to controllable renewable ener ...

sources such as

wind power Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly used to generate electricity. This article deals only with wind power for electricity ge ...

. In 2020 he became editor-in-chief of the newly founded scientific journal Smart Energy.''Smart Energy''
Elsevier. Retrieved 27th September 2020.

Publications (selection)

* A. Hauch, R. Küngas, P. Blennow, A. B. Hansen, J. B. Hansen, B.V. Mathiesen, M. B. Mogensen: ''Recent advances in solid oxide cell technology for electrolysis''.

Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

370, 186, 2020, * Henrik Lund et al.: ''The status of 4th generation district heating: Research and results''. In:

Energy Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of Work (thermodynamics), work and in the form of heat and l ...

164, (2018), 147–159, . * D. Connolly, H. Lund, B. V. Mathiesen: ''Smart Energy Europe :The technical and economic impact of one potential 100% renewable energy scenario for the European Union''. In: ''

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ''Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on sustainable energy. It is published in 12 issues per year by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Aoife M. Foley (Queen's University Belfast). Ac ...

'' 60, (2016), 1634–1653, . * B. V. Mathiesen, H. Lund, D. Conolly, H. Wenzel, P.A. Østergaard, B. Möller, S. Nielsen, I. Ridjan, P. Karnøe, K. Sperling, F. K. Hvelplund, ''Smart Energy Systems for coherent 100% renewable energy and transport solutions''. In: '' Applied Energy'' 145, (2015), 139–154, . * D. Connolly, H. Lund, B.V. Mathiesen, S. Werner, B. Möller, U. Persson, T. Boermans, D. Trier, P.A. Østergaard, S. Nielsen, ''Heat Roadmap Europe: Combining district heating with heat savings to decarbonise the EU energy system''. In: ''

Energy Policy Energy policies are the government's strategies and decisions regarding the Energy production, production, Energy distribution, distribution, and World energy supply and consumption, consumption of energy within a specific jurisdiction. Energy ...

'' 65, (2014), 475–489, . * H. Lund, B. V. Mathiesen, ''The role of Carbon Capture and Storage in a future sustainable energy system''. In: ''

'' 44, Issue 1, (2012) 469–476, . * H. Lund, A. N. Andersen, P. A. Østergaard, B. V. Mathiesen, D. Conolly, ''From electricity smart grids to smart energy systems – A market operation based approach and understanding''. In: ''

'' 42, Issue 1, (2012) 96–102, . * B. V. Mathiesen, H. Lund, K. Karlsson, ''100% Renewable energy systems, climate mitigation and economic growth''. In: '' Applied Energy'' 88, Issue 2, (2011) 488–501, . * D. Conolly, H. Lund, B.V. Mathiesen, M Leahy, ''A review of computer tools for analysing the integration of renewable energy into various energy systems''. In: '' Applied Energy'' 87, Issue 4, (2010), 1059–1082, . * H. Lund, B. Möller, B.V. Mathiesen, A. Dyrelund, ''The role of district heating in future renewable energy systems''. In: ''

'' 35, Issue 3, (2010), 1381–1390, . * B.V. Mathiesen, H. Lund, ''Comparative analyses of seven technologies to facilitate the integration of fluctuating renewable energy sources''. In: '' IET Renewable Power Generation'' 3, Issue 2, (2009), 190–204
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* H. Lund, B.V. Mathiesen, ''Energy system analysis of 100% renewable energy systems - The case of Denmark in years 2030 and 2050''. In: ''

'' 34, Issue 5, (2009), 524–531, . * B.V. Mathiesen, H. Lund, P. Nørgaard, ''Integrated transport and renewable energy systems''. In: ''Utilities Policy'' 16, Issue 2, (2008), 107–116, .

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