Energy and Environment Forum 2025

Are you interested in how researchers and students at the University of Oslo are working with climate, energy and environment transition?

Join us at this conference to explore a wide range of cutting-edge topics in sustainable energy - including community perspectives of wind energy, large-scale CO2 storage, green methanol, circular economy and more.

The event is free and open for all but registration is required.

Register here

Program

10:00-11:00 Opening session

• Welcome by Vebj?rn Bakken, director at UiO:Energy and Environment
• Keynote TBC
  • Q&A with the audience

11:00-11:15 Short break

11:15-12:15 Energy transition and the environment

• Chris Erik Mohn, researcher at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Chemistry and participant in the thematic research group DENT

• Ingar Stene, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History and participant in the thematic research group NORCLI, ¡°Human-climate interactions: What can be learned from the 1690s crisis?¡±

• TBC

• Andrea Joslyn Nightingale, professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and principal investigator of the thematic research group UNRULY SUSTAINABILITY, "Unruliness in Energy Systems: Governing for an Uncertain Future"

• Stephen Gary Williams, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, will provide an artistic contribution.

12:15-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Student pitches

• We will have a pitching competition for students, Master's and PhDs. Read more and sign up here.

14:00-14:15 Short break

14:15-15:15 People, society and climate

• Paola Velasco Herrej¨®n, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Technology Systems at the University of Oslo and participant of the research project SAMVIND
• Shahzad Javed, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Technology Systems and participant in the thematic research group Energy for Future 
• Karin Fossheim, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychology and participant in the thematic research group Energy for Future 
• Juliana Jia Yu Zhang, doctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychology and participant in the convergence environment PriTEM, "Participatory transition, psychological aspects from PriTEM"

15:15-15:30 Short break

15:30-16:30 A carbon-neutral society

• Ken Luca Abel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Catalysis and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and participant in the thematic research group ABiME, "Upgrading biogas into green methanol ¨C the ABiME project approach"
• Henrik Hovland Svensen, Professor - Crustal Processes, Department of Geosciences and Head of the VISTA Centre VICCO
• Maja Van Der Velden, professor at the Department of Informatics and coordinator of the Sustainability Lab.
• Conversation led by Vebj?rn Bakken:
  • Mali Hole Skogen, Technology and sustainability director of ICT Norway
  • TBC

16:30-17:00 Closing remarks

17:00-19:00 Dinner and mingling

•  At Toppsenteret, Oslo Science Park