Edwin Tazelaar is the new Delta Power professor. He started this summer. Edwin succeeds Jacob van Berkel, who is retiring.
The new professor grew up in Middelburg. After secondary school, he moved to Noord-Brabant to study at Eindhoven University of Technology. He obtained both his master's and doctoral degrees at this university, in 1992 and 2013 respectively. He found his first job in Arnhem, where he met his wife Anita. They have lived there ever since, together with their two children. However, they would like to move to Middelburg.
Hydrogen technology
Edwin has worked at KEMA and Philips Semiconductors in the fields of control engineering, hydrogen technology, solar energy and power semiconductors. In 2001, he joined HAN University of Applied Sciences as a senior researcher in the field of energy management and fuel cell propulsion systems and as manager of the master's programme in Control Systems Engineering. He then worked as a senior asset data analyst at network operator Alliander. There, his focus was on ageing models for high-voltage components and on hydrogen as an energy carrier.
In 2018, he co-founded HyMatters BV, a company that aims to realise a 100% sustainable energy system by exploiting the potential of hydrogen as a sustainable energy carrier.