Dr. Nis Martensen:
Inspiration directly from university.

Dr. Nis Martensen

Early 2008, Dr. Nis Martensen joined the energynautics team.

He studied at the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

As a former research assistant this Institute he has close contacts to the scientific institutions of the renowned Darmstadt and Clausthal Universities, where he in addition received a degree in energy systems technology.


In Clausthal he already developed an innovative solar lamp as part of his graduate studies. As his final project he designed, developed and built a frequency converter for high-speed drives.

His current research work towards a Ph.D. focuses on problems and solutions in the area of control and communication in virtual power plants with a large penetration of combined heat and power units. He completed this work by the end of 2009.