Prof. Aldo Steinfeld

Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich

Aldo Steinfeld has been Associate Professor of Renewable Energy Carriers at ETH Zurich since 2004. He further leads the Solar Technology Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer Institute.

He was born 1960 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion in 1983, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1989. Following his doctoral graduation, he was Research Fellow at the Energy Research Center of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 1991, he joined the Paul Scherrer Institute as Head of the Solar Process Technology Group.

His research program is aimed at the advancement of the thermal, thermochemical, and electrochemical engineering sciences applied to the field of renewable energy technology, with focus in:

•  radiation heat transfer in chemical reacting multi-phase flows
• thermodynamic analysis of novel energy conversion processes
• high-temperature chemical reactor engineering
• renewable fuels (e.g. solar hydrogen production)
• decarbonization and CO2 mitigation technologies

Prof. Steinfeld is the Editor of the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. He has authored over 100 research articles in refereed scientific journals and has contributed chapters to the Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology and the Encyclopedia of Energy.