Prof. Dr. Ir. Greet Van Eetvelde, INEOS Group / Ghent University Professor Van Eetvelde (°1965) holds engineering degrees in bioscience and chemistry, an advanced Master's degree in environmental sciences, and a PhD from Ghent University in Belgium. In 1994, during her doctoral research on wood preservation, she was granted a British Council fellowship at Building Research Establishment in outer London.
Appointed professor in 2000, she still heads the Energy & Cluster Management research group at the UGent faculty of Engineering and Architecture, while successively leading the university's Environmental department and (in 2007) assuming the role of director of the UGent Energy platform Power-Link as well as CEO of the Greenbridge science park. Since 2011 Dr. Van Eetvelde is employed at INEOS AG in Switzerland as Group head of Energy & Innovation Policy. She steers the pan-INEOS carbon & energy network and directs research & innovation projects tackling grand industrial climate challenges.
She represents INEOS in the Cefic Climate Change & Energy as well as Innovation programme councils, is INEOS' delegate in the SPIRE partnership, and is chairwoman of SusChem Switzerland. She co-leads the Energy section of EFCE and coordinates or participates in many industrial and academic platforms and projects. Since 2015 Van Eetvelde is also visiting professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group.
