Peter Lund

Background

About Peter Lund

Dr. Peter D. Lund is Professor Emeritus (03/2025-) in Advanced Energy Systems & Engineering Physics at Aalto University School of Science (Finland), where he initiated new energy and multidisciplinary energy science education. He has written and lectured extensively on new energy technologies, systems, and policies for the energy transition. He is most well-known for his contributions to clean energy systems and multidisciplinary issues, and nanomaterials for new energy devices. He led Finland’s first national R&D on new energy technologies 1988-98. He was Founding Member and Chair 1993-98 of the Energy Institute at Helsinki University of Technology and Director of National Graduate School in Energy Science & Technology 2003-08. He has been Visiting Professor at Technical University of Dresden (Germany), Southeast University in Nanjing (Professor High-Level Prg. 2025), South China University of Technology, among others. His research has been published in leading energy and materials journals such as Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Nanoenergy, ACS Energy Letters, Applied Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, and Energy. He has also co-edited volumes (e.g, Advances in Bioenergy, Wiley 2016; Advances in Energy Systems: The Large‐scale Renewable Energy Integration Challenge, Wiley 2019; Advances in Digitalization and Machine Learning for Integrated Building-Transportation Energy System, Elsevier 2024). He was elected Member of Swedish Engineering Academy in Finland in 1998 (Board 2008-13, Silver Medal 2021), Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2018, Member of European Academy of Sciences 2025. He chaired the Advisory Group Energy of European Commission 2002-06, chaired the Energy Steering Panel of European Academies Science Advisory Council 2013-17, co-chaired European Academies’ science advice to leaders of the European Commission 2019-21 on policy for the energy transition. He was vice-chair of the Finnish Climate Change Panel 2019-23. He is Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief for Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy & Environment (Wiley), Founding Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Open Energy (OUP). He serves on editorial boards of several journals. He has supervised more than 50 PhDs and co-authored over 490 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He has received several awards, in 2021 the China Friendship Award, in 2023 he was named Ambassador of Espoo City. Fellow of World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies and International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance 2025. Member in several boards.