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Prof. dr. Martha Roggenkamp is a specialist in International, European and Dutch Energy law. She holds a degree in law and Scandinavian languages and a PhD of the University of Leiden on the legal framework of pipelines in the oil and gas sector. She is the principal investigator of the DOSTA project and supervisor and promotor of Liv Malin Andreasson. She received here PhD at the University of Leiden and worked in private practice before she was appointed in 2005 at the University of Groningen as the first professor of energy law in the Netherlands. In 2021 she holds an emeritus status. She also established and chairs the Dutch Association of Energy Law.

Prof. dr. Antonis I. Vakis is Associate Professor in the Mechanics and Tribology of Engineering Systems (MeTrES) and Chair of the Computational Mechanical and Materials Engineering (CMME) research group of the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG), Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) of the University of Groningen. He supervises the PhD candidate Robbert Nienhuis. His research interests lie in the field of mechanical engineering and received his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 2011, working on nanoscale interface mechanics with application to magnetic storage. He is Program Director of the MSc program in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM), an Academic Fellow of the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), as well as a co-founder and scientific advisor for spin-off company Ocean Grazer B.V.

Jan Wiegner is a PhD researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at the University of Utrecht. He has a strong background in energy system modeling and data analysis and is passionate about the transition towards a sustainable world. Jan holds an M.Sc. in Energy Science (University Utrecht) and M.Sc. in Economics (University of Bayreuth).