In 2013, I joined TUMCREATE as Principal Scientist. I have been leading the Energy and Power Systems Group since then.
Since 2022, I am also serving as coordinator of the project “Singapore's Pathway to Carbon Neutrality – Analysis of New Technologies”. I established a team of researchers working on projects in the field of power and energy systems and electric mobility.
Moreover, I defined new areas of research, acquired additonal grant funding and established collaborations with partners from academia, governmental organisations and industry.
Before joining TUMCREATE, I took on the role as university programme manager in 2009 to establish a new Master programme in Power Engineering (MSPE) at the Technical University of Munich that attracts more than 1000 applicants every year.
I received my diploma (M. Sc.) and his doctoral (PhD) degree from the Technical University of Munich in 2002 and 2010 respectively. There, my research focussed on the structural analysis of analogue integrated circuits.

Colin Herron has worked in the automotive industry for over 49 years including 16 years in Engineering at Nissan in Sunderland. A key player in the negotiations to bring both the Leaf and the AESC Li ion plant to the UK. Project consortium director of two APC project’s with envision AESC (40kWh battery) and a second APC project with Nissan. Currently head of the Faraday Office North East (FINE) and the North East Battery Alliance (NEBA). Colin works closely with the car industry, battery industry, government bodies (BEIS, DIT, DfT, APC, Innovate, Catapults and professional institutions (IET, RSC) to understand and translate future technology into an adoption strategy. Oral evidence to the House of Commons Transport Committee on Motoring of the Future and in 2021 gave written and Oral evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on the role of batteries and fuel cells to achieve net zero. A recognised speaker at national and international level. Colin has a PhD (manufacturing), is a Professor of Practice at Newcastle University. Appointed a CBE (2018) for services to business and renewable energy.

Dr Simon Lambert is a senior lecturer in the Electrical Power Group, School of Engineering at Newcastle University (UK). He has over 14 years' experience researching energy systems integration, battery management & integration and battery degradation & quality control analysis. Prior to joining the academic team he worked on numerous national and international collaborative research projects with several EV OEMs in the area of battery science (specifically health and condition monitoring) and has a recent research project portfolio (since 2015) covering 15 projects with total award value to Newcastle University of over £5.9M. He is currently leading the test and dismantling work stream for the Faraday Institution's flagship Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries (ReLiB) project and has also led battery testing and characterisation workstreams in projects with the FP7 & the APC.

Professor and Centre Director, E-Mobility and Clean Growth

Professor and CEO of the Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility

Akshay Kumar Rathore (IEEE Fellow) is an expert in power electronics and control of electrical motor drives. He received the Gold Medal for securing the highest academic standing in his Master’s degree among all electrical engineering specializations at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He had two subsequent postdoctoral research appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany (2008-2009), and the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (2009-2010). From November 2010 to February 2016, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. From March 2016-Dec 2021, he served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada where he was listed in the Provost Circle of Distinction in 2021. He served as Graduate Program Director and Chair of Graduate Awards during 2020-21.

His research is mainly focused on the analysis and design of novel current-fed converters (topologies and modulation), soft-switching design and modulation schemes for the dc/dc converters, pulsating DC link (electrolytic capacitorless) inverters, and control of multilevel inverters. He supervised 11 PhD theses and 14 MASc (research) theses.

Dr. Rathore is a recipient of the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, 2017 IEEE IES David Irwin Early Career Award, 2019 IEEE IES Publications Service Recognition Award, 2020 IEEE IAS Outstanding Area Chair Award, 2020 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems and 2021 Nagamori Award. He published about 285 research papers in international journals and conferences, including 96 IEEE TRANSACTIONS.

Prof Hannah Yee-Fen LIM is uniquely qualified with double degrees in Computer Science and in Law from the University of Sydney, Australia where she went on to complete a Master of Laws by Research with Honours under a Telstra Scholarship.

Hannah is an internationally recognised legal expert and scholar and has been appointed to advise international bodies such as the World Health Organization, where she was an invited Expert External Reviewer for the WHO Guidance on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health.

Hannah currently also serves on the Advisory Panel of the Law Commission of England and Wales by invitation and has been advising its work on Crypto-assets, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs and property law.

Hannah has also been advising the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) since 2019 on areas such as AI, Fintech, Blockchain, Smart Contracts and the digital economy.

She is currently one of 15 international legal experts appointed by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) on its Digital Assets and Private Law Project to draft new International Legal Instruments on Cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other Digital Assets, especially in response to Blockchain technology.

Prof Lim is also a Co-Editor on the number 1 ranked interdisciplinary journal in the Social Sciences, Big Data and Society which has an Impact Factor (IF) of 8.731.

Hannah has been awarded numerous large external grants throughout her career, including two current Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) grants worth more than SGD$1.1 million as Principal Investigator (PI). She is currently PI or Co-PI in grants totalling more than SGD$58 million from the NRF dealing with legal and ethical issues concerning, for example AI, Autonomous Vehicles, Future Health technologies including robotics in healthcare, and Urban smart cities.

She is the author of 6 scholarly books on law and technology published by internationally established publishers such as Oxford University Press (OUP). She wrote one of the pioneering and seminal books on Internet law, Cyberspace Law in 2002 published by OUP. Hannah has published more than 45 journal articles, including most recently in Scientific Reports, the 5th most-cited journal in the world, with more than 696,000 citations in 2021. She has written more than 10 book chapters by invitation from international editors published by top tier academic book publishers and her research has been cited with approval by senior judiciary, most notably by the High Court of Australia.

Dr Xu received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, and PhD degree from The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, all in electrical engineering.

He conducted postdoctoral research with the University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship in Australia and then joined Nanyang Technological University with Nanyang Assistant Professorship. He is now an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and a Cluster Director at Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N).

Dr Xu and his SODA (Stability, Optimization, and Data-Analytics) power system research group are focusing on:
1) stability and control of renewable-energy power systems
2) microgrids and distributed energy resource (DER) integration
3) data-analytics for smart grid applications

As the first/corresponding author, he has published 2 books, 111 IEEE Transactions papers, and 30 IET journal papers. He has 15 "Web-of-Science highly cited papers" and 10 IEEE/IET paper contest and conference best paper awards, and 2021 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Outstanding Paper Award and 2018 Applied Energy Highly Cited Paper Award. His research outcomes have been practically applied/licensed to the industry in Australia, the USA, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, China Mainland, and Singapore.

In Singapore, his research is funded by National Research Foundation (NRF), Ministry of Education (MOE), Energy Market Authority (EMA), Housing & Development Board (HDB), DSO National Laboratories, Rolls-Royce, Singtel, Infineon, JTC (Jurong Town Corporation), SingaporePower (SP) Group, Lite-On, and technology start-up companies, etc. He has been practically collaborating with many universities in Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR, UK, Denmark, France, Switzerland, India, and the USA through joint research projects and research student exchanges.

Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, Vice President IET and former Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Transport (2015-2021).

Professor Phil Blythe CEng, FIET is Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems and served as Director of the Transport Operations Research Group at Newcastle University for 13 years until stepping down from this post in June 2015 to take up a three year, 3-day a week appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Transport (DfT).

Phil continues as Professor of ITS in part time capacity during this period focusing on research project generation and delivery, PhD student supervision, lectures on a number of ITS Masters Modules and supports the University in a strategic engagement role.

In his role at the DfT he provides a challenge function to the Department on the use of science and engineering evidence in policy making and also ensuring the Department is best informed on new innovations and technologies that may impact on the delivery of transport schemes. Through the CSA network he also ensures that there is significant cross-government cooperation on science, engineering and technology issues. The network of Chief Scientific Advisers (CSA’s) across Government Departments support and advise the Government Chief Scientific Adviser on all aspects of policy on science and technology. In particular, they:

provide advice to ministers, through the Cabinet committee system
discuss and facilitate implementation of policy on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
identify and share good practice in STEM-related areas, including the use of scientific advice in policy making
facilitate communication on particular high profile STEM-related issues and those posing new challenges for government
In addition as CSA for Department of Transport Phil ensures that all necessary science and technology evidence is assured as, and when, it is used to support and underpin policy decisions, where this evidence is not available rapid evidence reviews are undertaken.
Moreover, Phil and his team are focusing on supporting key technical areas of the Department, including: connected and autonomous vehicles; ultra low emission vehicles; drones; spaceflight; older travellers and accessibility; emissions and air quality improvements; energy; and the IoT, big data and smart cities. A number of these challenges were presented by Phil in a recent lecture to the Alan Turing Institute which is available on YouTube.

At Newcastle University Phil’s research portfolio covers a wide range of areas where ITS has been applied to transport including: His primary research is forward looking and attempts to bridge the technology-policy gap in terms of what technologies may evolve to meet future policy objectives or indeed influence future policy thinking, particularly in the smart city/smart transport domain. Internationally, Phil manages a portfolio of research projects funded by the EPSRC, Europe, Industry and Government He is a member of the ERTICO (ITS Europe) Supervisory Board and advises the Commission on ITS research strategy. He chairs the IET’s Transport Policy Panel and the UK’s C-ITS Deployment Board and has acted as an advisor to the UK and European governments in various areas of intelligent transport and more recently also in the connected and autonomous vehicles, age-friendly and accessible transport, electromobility and smart cities agendas.

Richard Chin is the General Manager of ChargEco, a collaboration between Strides and YTL PowerSeraya for the decarbonisation of land transport in Singapore.

Strides is a leading mobility solutions and services provider with almost 40 years’ industry experience, and YTL PowerSeraya Pte Limited (YTL PowerSeraya) is an integrated energy provider with more than 50 years’ experience in power generation and retail.

ChargEco has won a large-scale deployment tender by LTA to install, operate and maintain more than 1,300 EV charging points in HDB carparks across the central and east regions of Singapore. To further accelerate local EV adoption, ChargEco has also extended its affordable, reliable and sustainable EV charging services to condos, malls, commercial buildings and industrial parks.
Richard is no stranger to the Sustainable Energy industry. He has over 20 years of experience, particularly in the areas of business development and partnerships, and he has a proven track record in securing deals in the energy infrastructure space. In his previous role as Deputy Director (Partnerships) with Singapore Power (SP) Group, he was responsible for prospecting and securing customers for large scale sustainable energy district projects, including the largest regional private microgrid in SIT Punggol Campus and the first brownfield District Cooling System in Tampines town centre.
Prior to that, he was the Head Business Development and Planning for Singapore Technologies Kinetics where he was leading both the e-bus drive systems business and Autonomous Vehicles business.
Richard holds a Master of Engineering from the National University of Singapore and also a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) with 1st Class Honours from the National University of Singapore.

Niels de Boer joined NTU as a Senior Scientist in the Energy Research Institute (ERI@N). He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of ERI@N, and also the Senior Programme Director of the Centre of Excellence for Testing & Research of Autonomous Vehicles – NTU (CETRAN).

Prior to joining NTU, Niels has a long track record of delivering R&D projects in Industry. His experience includes work on automotive powertrain development in Delphi Singapore where he was responsible for software development and was also part of the global core team which developed processes to ensure software quality. Subsequently, he was responsible for automotive infotainment platform development and research in automotive infotainment systems in Siemens-VDO/Continental.

After working in the automotive field, Niels moved to a more research-based environment where he was responsible as R&D Director for the development of electrical drivetrains for Vestas and later, for research on electrical systems such as the wind turbine drivetrain and the wind farm and grid connectivity.

Prior to his current role, Niels was Technology Quality Manager at Lloyd’s Register where he was responsible for ensuring that the outputs of all research globally relating to Energy Technology meet business objectives. This included the development of certification requirements and certification assessment methodologies.

Yangfang (Helen) Zhou is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. She obtained her master’s degree in industrial engineering from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. from the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. Her main research interest is in sustainable operations, focusing on renewable energy, electric mobility, sustainable agriculture, and food waste. Her research has been published by top-tier journals and won best paper awards, including the Best Publication Award for Environment and Sustainability in INFORMS 2020. Her research has been featured in media, such as podcasts, magazines, and television.

Farzaneh is currently doing her PhD study in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems at Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Her PhD is supported by the UK EPSRC Research Council in collaboration with Arup Company. Her research goal is to develop data-driven solutions in transport systems using machine learning and optimisation methods with case studies in electric vehicle charging infrastructure and clean air zone.
Farzaneh received her BSc degree in Software Engineering and her MSc degree in Advanced Computer Science both with distinction from the Netherlands and the UK. Her MSc thesis was on developing deep learning models for classification and segmentation of health-related data. She has over 8 years of experience working with international companies in the software industry in three different countries (Sage, Scott Logic, Bol, Mendix, OCLC). She has a background in Technology Consultancy, specialising in Software Testing Development, while currently focusing on machine learning and data science solutions for challenging problems in the transport sector.

Dr. Elsa FENG earned her PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, specializing in energy storage system modeling and control for renewable energy systems and electric vehicles. During her PhD, she also participated in electric vehicle research with TUM CREATE, a joint program between Nanyang Technological University and Technical University Munich funded by the National Research Foundation of Singapore. From September 2015 to June 2017, Elsa worked at the Land Transport Authority of Singapore's electro-mobility office. Currently, she serves as an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology and focuses on microgrid/multi-energy system operation and planning, data analytics in power systems, and data-driven modeling, planning, and control of energy storage systems.

iddharth Roy is the Business Director for ACE Green Recycling, an innovative recycling platform for battery materials. The company is dually headquartered in Singapore and Houston, Texas, USA, and provides sustainable, end-of-life solutions for batteries, creating a closed loop supply chain for these critical materials.

ACE is a global company with approximately 70 professionals located across three continents. The company owns recycling facilities in India and is currently setting up two of the world’s largest battery recycling parks in Gujarat, India and Houston which are expected to be operational by 2024. ACE is also setting up additional recycling facilities in Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe and has a rapidly expanding supply chain network consisting of more than 15 countries.
Through his work with ACE, Roy aims to work with players across the battery ecosystem to create sustainable, localized, circular solutions for critical battery materials to ensure a green transition to global electrification. Based in Singapore, Roy is responsible for building ACE’s portfolio of global partnerships and strategic agreements with industry players.
Prior to working at ACE, Roy accumulated 12 years of experience in global trading, mining, supply chain and distribution of non-ferrous waste and battery materials. He has held senior positions with natural resources conglomerate Vedanta Resources and with multiple recycling and non-ferrous trading startups in Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore.
Roy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance from Nirma University’s Institute of Management.

Ex-Grab with 10+ years experience in business development, strategic partnerships, & new project launches

Gobee has 20+ years of experience in transportation modelling works and is proficient with traffic optimization and coordination, traffic macrosimulation of urban networks and many others.

7 years of experience in EV charging, smart grid, first and second-life energy storage
MBA (Energy Management) from Technical University of Berlin
Managed system integration and operations of public EV charging network in Singapore
Developed an EV charger OEM’s business in APAC excl. China

Director of Programmes, Infocomm Technology Cluster
Deputy Director, Centre for Immersification
Research Interests
Human-Computer Interaction
Mobile Computing
Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality Design

Prof. Jeff Obbard is the Head of the Climate Change Impacts Branch at the Centre for Climate Research Singapore, under the Ministry of Sustainability & Environment. He is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Water, Energy & Environment at Cranfield University in the UK, and also serves as the Climate Change Advisor to the National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA) Council, Singapore.
Jeff completed his PhD on the biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases & carbon sequestration. He started his career in the private sector in the UK in the 1990s as an environmental consultant, before transferring to Hong Kong where he worked as a senior scientist on environment & sustainability projects. Jeff then spent seventeen years at the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he held various positions including, on sabbatical, Vice President of Science & Technology for a Royal Dutch Shell joint-venture in Hawaii, USA to develop low-carbon, renewable fuels. At NUS, Jeff served as the Director of the Sustainable Development & Water Alliance. He led a team at NUS to win the United Nations Mondialogo Award for engineering solutions in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Jeff has also worked in the petroleum-state of Qatar, as the Director of the Environmental Science Centre which conducts research on the impacts of climate change on the Arabian Gulf.
Jeff has completed consultancy projects throughout Southeast Asia, as well as China & India, on environmental sustainability & climate change. He is an Expert Reviewer to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including its fifth assessment (AR5) which was the basis of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and its latest sixth assessment (AR6).

Sharan is a graduate of TUM with a transport specialization and an experienced & expert user of PTV VISSIM & VISWALK. He has worked on various traffic and pedestrian modelling projects.

M.Sc., Rail, Transport & Logistics, TUM Asia, Singapore

r. Parikshit Yadav is an accomplished Electrical Engineer with a Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore in 2013. He joined Alstom Transport Pte. Ltd in 2012 as a Design Manager for the Traction Power Supply System for the Tuas West Extension MRT Project, where he played a critical role in its success.
In 2016, Dr. Yadav co-founded "WBG(SG) Pte Ltd," a company specializing in Electrification for Transportation and Building Environment. Under his leadership, the company has executed several successful Electrification Projects in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, contributing significantly to sustainable infrastructure development in the region.
Dr. Yadav's team has achieved notable feats, such as deploying the 300 KW Opportunity Charging Pantograph for NTU-LTA-Volvo Autonomous Bus Trial in 2019, and the 4 x 450 KW Opportunity Charging Pantograph at Bukit Panjang and Bedok Interchange for the first batch of Electric Buses supplied by ST Engineering in 2021. The team also deployed their first High-Speed 400KW DC Charger with Dynamic Power Allocation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2023.
Dr. Yadav and his team's active involvement in the installation and commissioning of High-Speed DC Chargers for Public and Fleets demonstrates their unwavering commitment to promoting clean energy and reducing carbon footprint.