TEAM (GALLOO)
R&D Manager at Galloo
I am specialized in the sorting of non-ferrous metals after shredding, with wet (flotation) and dry technologies. My responsibality within AUSOM will be mostly in WP6, building and testing the pilot plant at the Galloo facilities. I will coordinate the setup and the testing of the output materials, and provide the necessary aid for operations and logistics.
TEAM (REDWAVE)
Coordinator of WP3 and WP5
With an engineering and product development background and a knowledge of computer vision and data analysis, Alexander Eckert joined the R&D team of REDWAVE in early 2019. As expert in metal-sorting he is responsible for different sorting solutions using XRF-, shape- and color- base sorting techniques.
Alexander Eckert graduated as mechanical engineer from engineering school at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany in 2015. Subsequently he researched at Fraunhofer WKI, Braunschweig about material development.
Head of R&D
With an engineering and product development background and a knowledge of computer vision and data analysis, Alexander Eckert joined the R&D team of REDWAVE in early 2019. As expert in metal-sorting he is responsible for different sorting solutions using XRF-, shape- and color- base sorting techniques.
Alexander Eckert graduated as mechanical engineer from engineering school at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany in 2015. Subsequently he researched at Fraunhofer WKI, Braunschweig about material development.
TEAM (SWERIM)
Project Coordinator
Jonas Petersson holds a PhD in Chemistry from Uppsala University with specialization in femtosecond time-resolved laser spectroscopy. He is now active in the group of analytical process monitoring at Swerim that develop new methods for industry. The main focus of his work is on optical methods for chemical analysis.
Coordination of WP4
Mélina Gilbert Gatty holds a MSc in Materials Science from the European School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials (ECPM) in Strasbourg (France). She obtained a PhD at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) in 2015 and specialized in laser-based spectroscopy techniques. At Swerim, her research focuses on the development of sensor prototypes and data-analysis algorithms for material classification, material analysis and process monitoring in industrial environments. When out of the lab, she happily bakes pastries and spends family time gardening.
Researcher
Louise Hagesjö holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics and in Education, from the Royal institute of technology (KTH), in Stockholm. She started at Swerim AB in 2018 as a trainee and is now working as a researcher in analytical process monitoring with a focus on laser-based spectroscopy techniques and development. Except for physics, mathematics and problem solving she loves singing and dancing!
Coordinator of WP4
Marijn Sandtke received his MSc in applied physics in 2003 and his PhD in 2007, bot at the University Twente. After a career of 7 years at the Dutch national research institute TNO, he left TNO to start SPECTRAL Industries. 5 years later, SPECTRAL grew into a 7 FTE company, focussing on developing and manufacturing LIBS equipment for mining and recycling applications. As CTO, Marijn Sandtke is responsible for the technical roadmap and development within SPECTRAL. Part of his job is to manage the long-term subsidy related projects and to contribute to them as a team member.
Responsible for software development
Fanuel Mehari received his MSc and PhD from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in the field of LIBS. Fanuel is experienced in the fundamentals of laser-induced plasma and its spectroscopic application to biological and metallic samples
Laser. As well as tissue interaction with the focus on laser surgery, Machine learning and Chemometric tools (LDA, QDA, Artificial Neural Network and Convolutional Neural Network) in Matlab, Python and Tesorflow for spectral data analysis.
Researcher
Pepijn Kenter is SPECTRAL’s lead software engineer. After receiving a MSc degree in computer science from Delft University of Technology, he joined SME company Science and Technology as software engineer and project manager for various customers such as NATO, DLR, TNO and KNMI. His specialty is developing state-of-the-art software for sensor data calibration and processing. Expertise is requirements analysis, designing instrument command and control software, designing and implementing analysis software and project management. Pepijn joint SPECTRAL in 2017 as lead software developer.
TEAM (KU LEUVEN)
Coordinator of WP2 and WP7
Jef Peeters holds a master in Industrial Engineering with the option of industrial design and a master in product and production management. He obtained a PhD at the KU Leuven in 2016 and is now full time professor at the KU Leuven and is specialized in (eco)design, and re- and demanufacturing. His research focuses on products and processes for a circular economy.
PhD Student
Dillam Diaz received a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Alberta, Canada in 2019. He is a researcher at the Life Cycle Engineering and Embedded and Artificially intelligent VISion Engineering (EAVISE) research groups of the Faculty of Engineering Technology , KU Leuven – University of Leuven. His research focuses on the development of computer vision based on deep learning to improve the sorting of non-ferrous metals by (LIBS) data to improve their classification.
Phd Student
Bart earned the MSc in industrial engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven campus Diepenbeek, Diepenbeek, Limburg, Belgium, 2020. He is a researcher at Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) and Automation Computervision and Robotics (ACRO), Faculty of Engineering Technology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research focuses on development of grippers and a manipulation strategy to improve the sorting of non-ferrous metals.
Phd Student
WP0 go to market strategy
Niklas Grönberg holds a MSc in Business and finance from Umeå School of Business and economics as well as Mannheim Business School. He is currently responsible for developing and implementing innovation methodologies and processes in Tech Transfer environments as well as within SMEs and larger companies. He is also co-head of strategy services offered to SMEs and larger companies in northern Sweden. Niklas is also the product owner of the method Innovation Due Diligence a method that is taught to innovation managers throughout Sweden and internationally.
TEAM (RI.SE)
Researcher
Carola Sterner holds a MSc in engineering physics and a PhD in MEMS with focus on micro-optics from Uppsala University, Sweden. She has been working at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB and predecessors since 2007 and specializes in fibre-optical sensor systems. Her focusing areas are fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for industrial applications.
Ingemar Petermann holds a MSc in engineering physics and a PhD in applied physics/fibre optics from Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and a BMSc in biomedicine from Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden. He has worked at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB and predecessors since 1996 and specializes in optical and electrical characterization of semiconductor devices as well as design and realization of measurement systems based on photonics, fibre optics and electronics.
Researcher
Johan Rengstedt holds a MSc in engineering physics from Lund University. He has been working with optics in different areas, from selling spectrometers to research of microstructured optical fibres at Helsinki University, Helsinki. He now works with development of fibre-optical sensor prototypes including data analysis and simulations.