Henrik Raeder (Vice-president)

Henrik Raeder (Vice-president) (born 1957) is Senior Business Developer in SINTEF, Norway. He has more than 30 years of experience in project and innovation management for applied research. SINTEF is the largest independent contract research organisation in Scandinavia, with more than 2000 employees. Raeder was head of SINTEF's research group on Functional Ceramics and Nanomaterials from 2005 to 2008 and is currently in SINTEF's Department for Sustainable Energy Technology. He is involved in business development related to piezoelectric materials, high temperature membranes and fuel cells. In 2008 he joined Sonitor Technologies AS, an SME developing positioning systems based on ultrasound, as Research Manager. Raeder has coordinated two European projects (FP5/WaterCatox and FP6/MEMSpie) and has been expert evaluator for several calls of the European Commission (FP7, H2020). He chaired the general assembly of FP7 project PiezoVolume, which laid the basis for SINTEF's current foundry service for piezoelectric microsystems (www.piezomems.com). He chaired the Piezo 2006 conference (Piezoceramics for End-Users II), held at the Hafjell Olympic site in Norway in 2006. Raeder was educated at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway (MSc in inorganic chemistry, 1981). He has been visiting scientist at ENSCI Limoges (France, 1990) and École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada, 1999). He was one of the co-founders of the SME Keranor AS (www.keranor.no), a producer of advanced technical ceramics.