Renee Heller
Professor of Energy and Innovation
Renee Heller has been Professor of Energy and Innovation at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences since 2020. Her research group investigates and designs technological interventions that accelerate the energy transition.
Expertise
energy transition / smart grids / built environment / heat transition / solar energy
Contact
- E-mail: e.m.b.heller@hva.nl
- Phone number: +31621157675
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About Renee Heller
Renee Heller is Professor of Energy and Innovation at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Her research group investigates and designs technological interventions that accelerate the energy transition.
Renee studied Physics and General Literature at the University of Utrecht (1988-1995). She received her PhD from Utrecht University concerning research into hydrogen storage in thin metal layers.
After completing her PhD, she worked for several years at Ecofys, an international consultancy firm specialising in energy efficiency and renewable energy. From 2011, she was their Unit Manager of the Built Environment and later Integral Energy Systems units. She joined the AUAS in 2014 as Project Manager Bachelor Engineering. Later, she worked as a Senior Professor in Sustainable Energy Systems within the Engineering programme and the Urban Technology Research programme. In 2020 she became a professor.
Ancillary positions
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Milieu Centraal
- Member of the LEVE and Urban Energy Professor platforms