Speaker – Baltic Carbon Forum 2025

Conference Committee:

Alla Shogenova, Estonia
Sarah Eileen Gasda, Norway
Tom Haselton, Lithuania
Shruti Malik, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania
Monika Konieczyńska, Poland
Michal Wendolowski, Belgium
Auli Niemi, Sweden
Peter Molander, Finland, treasurer
Mayur Pal (Chair), Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania
Parsa (secretary), Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Lithuania
Janis Volberts, Latvia

Some Of Our Expert Speakers

Inga Žilienė

Inga Žilienė is the Vice-Minister of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania since January 2021. She has a Master of Management and Business Administration (2008) and a Master of Applied Mathematics (1993) from Vilnius University, She has extensive experience in energy and regulatory sectors. She has previously chaired the National Energy Regulatory Council (2019–2021) and the National Control Commission for Prices and Energy (2015–2019).

Žilvinas Danys

Senior Counsellor to the Ministry
Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania.Lawyer, Vilnius University. Since 2019, he has been working at the Ministry of Energy, taking care of energy innovation issues. Professional in innovation ecosystems development & implementation, energy innovations management, hydrogen & CCS/CCUS technologies.

Dr. Auli Niemi (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Auli Niemi is Professor Emeritus in Groundwater Modeling at Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her earlier positions include e.g. Research Professor & Leading Research Scientist at Technical Research Centre of Finland.

Andreas Busch (HWK, United Kingdom)

Prof. Andreas Busch leads the GeoEnergy research group at Heriot-Watt University since joining in 2016. Prior to moving to Edinburgh, he worked in R&D at Shell Global Solutions in Rijswijk, the Netherlands.

Eglė Jankauskienė

Mrs. Eglė Jankauskienė has Master of Economics. She is sustainability and project coordinator at AB Akmenės cementas. She is working with the implementation of the projects for almost 10 years as an auditor and proejct coordinator.

Soeren Reinhold Poulsen

Soeren Reinhold Poulsen holds a M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering. He has been working within the Oil and Gas Upstream business for more than 25 years in Denmark and internationally. Started as a drilling engineer, transitioned into becoming a Reservoir Engineer and has during the last 15 years been involved in large capital projects within project management and general Asset management. During the recent 3 years main focus, as Head of CCS, has been on supporting development of INEOS Energy’s Danish CCS portfolio including (1) the Greensand first commercial CO2 offshore storage project, Future 1, with expected COD in early 2026 and (2) the Greenstore CO2 onshore storage project currently undergoing seismic acquisition efforts, further drilling of wells in 2026 and relevant midstream infrastructure maturation with anticipated start-up in 2030 provided appraisal results and offtake contracts warrants so.

Shruti Malik

Ms. Shruti Malik earned her Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. She is working as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematical Modelling, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania.

Kazbulat Shogenov

Kazbulat Shogenov (TallTech, Estonia)
Dr Shogenov is a Researcher at the Department of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology (Tall Tech) and founder and CEO of the SHOGenergy consulting company.

Eglė Jankauskienė

Holcim Group

Holcim is a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions. Our 65,000 people around the world are driven by our purpose to build progress for people and the planet.

Justinas Jazbutis (KN, Lithuania)

Involved in floating LNG regasification project developments in EU, Latin America, SE Asia. Lately major focus on Carbon Capture Storage initiatives. Taking a role of PM for CCS value chain feasibility study performed by KN and international partners.

Dr. Adam Wójcicki (PGI-NRI, Poland)

Adam Wójcicki, Ph.D., Eng., geophysicist working at PGI-NRI, has been involved in CCS activities supported by the EU FP6 since 2004 (CASTOR, EU GeoCapacity, CO2NetEast).

Ehsan Marzban

Ehsan Marzban, a futurist and foresight researcher, specializes in alternative thinking and scenario development, focusing on social aspects of energy transition, governance, sustainability, and uncertainty management.

Adam Bott

Adam Bott is the Business Development Manager for CCS across Europe for SLB. Starting his career 30 years ago as a SLB Wireline Engineer he has held a number of technical, commercial and management roles around the world.

Agnieszka Baran

Agnieszka is the Director of the CCS Programme Office since the beginning of 2023 (in ORLEN since 2016). Her responsibility is to implement and coordinate CCS projects in the whole ORLEN Capital Group (e.g. ECO2CEE project).

Ignas Vaičeliūnas

Ignas Vaičeliūnas is the Head of the Gas Storage Department at UAB "Minijos nafta" with 50 years of experience in petroleum geology. He graduated from the Gubkin Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas Chemical Industry.

Nerijus Virbickas

Nerijus Virbickas is a Head of Innovation at Green Genius with over 20 years of extensive experience in the global energy sector. He is also a mastermind behind the InnoSolveGreen project, recognized by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA).

Aliaksei (Alex) Patonia

Aliaksei (Alex) Patonia is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, focusing on commercial hydrogen development within the Hydrogen Research Programme. He explores challenges and opportunities in the hydrogen value chain, drawing on prior energy sector experience in Europe and Southeast Asia. Alex holds graduate degrees from the Universities of Liverpool, St Andrews, and Oxford.

Shantanu Agarwal (Founder and CEO of Mati Carbon, USA)

Shantanu Agarwal (Founder and CEO of Mati Carbon, USA) Shantanu is a climate-tech entrepreneur with more than 20 years of energy industry experience. He has successfully founded number of companies in the past including Susteon, Sustaera in climate-tech domain..

Aliaksei (Alex) Patonia

Harri Laurikka

Harri Laurikka has been the Managing Director of the Bioenergy Association of Finland since 2016. Previously, he served as a climate change negotiator for Finland at the UNFCCC and the EU from 2007 to 2016, culminating in his role as Chief Negotiator at COP21. Laurikka holds a doctoral degree in Energy Economics from Aalto University.

Thomas Andolfsson

Thomas Andolfsson, PhD (2017), is since 2023 a geologist at SGU, Swedish Geological Survey, working exclusively on the current CCS project. With a background in geology, geophysics, and offshore civil engineering in both academia as well within the Swedish nuclear waste program, holds he currently a fluid role within the CCS project.

Roman Berenblyum

Roman Berenblyum holds a PhD (2004) from Danish Technical University. Since 2006 Roman has worked in NORCE focusing on carbon dioxide utilisation and storage, geothermal energy, hydrogen, fluid behavior and reservoir simulation related to IOR/EOR. Roman is currently serving as a member of the CO2GeoNet Executive Committee.

Kazbulat Shogenov

Mai Uibu

Mai Uibu is a Senior Researcher at the Inorganic Materials Research Laboratory of Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and Program Manager for the Chemical, Materials, and Energy Technology specialization within the doctoral program in Engineering Sciences. She earned her PhD in 2008 with a dissertation on reducing CO₂ emissions in Estonia’s oil shale-based power sector. Her research focuses on climate-neutral valorization of industrial waste—particularly oil shale ash—through CO₂ mineralization technologies. Her work has led to the publication of several dozen scientific articles, the supervision of three doctoral theses, and the protection of four patents. Since 2022, she has also served as Laboratory Test Coordinator at R-S OSA Service OÜ, supporting the advancement of applied development projects.

Carlo Maccherini

Carlo Maccherini is Senior BD Lead Europe for Global CCS Institute. He has over 15 years of experience working in Business Development and Account Management roles for Financial Institutions, Private companies, European Institutions and Startups operating both in solar and energy storage.

Lena Østgaard

Lena Østgaard a Legal Advisor on International Law working on projects related to CCS, CCUS, negative emissions technologies and the energy transition. She has experience working with the regulatory issues and key legal requirements for cross-border transportation of CO2 and offshore storage.

Asle Solheim

Asle Solheim is the Project Advisor for the CCS value chain at Lime Petroleum AS in Oslo, Norway, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is involved in the Iroko project, which aims to store 215 million metric tons of liquefied CO2 annually for 30 years.

Roberts Misurovs

Active in energy efficiency, power self-supply and co-financing projects, Roberts is also involved in the CCUS efforts of SCHWENK Latvija. He is part of the team trying to make sense of the various technological concepts on offer, with the aim of choosing the best suitable solution within this rapidly developing field and making carbon capture a reality at Brocēni cement plant.

Prof. Brijesh K. Yadav

Prof. Yadav is working at dept. of hydrology IIT Roorkee, India. His research works is in the area of Remediation of Soil-water systems, Bioremediation of NAPL, PRB, Phytoremediation of heavy metals, Vadose zone Modeling, Plant water and solute uptake modeling, Groundwater Modeling, Numerical simulations, Nitrate and arsenic movement in Subsurface, MODFLOW, HYDRUS, Multiple Phase Flow, CO2 Sequestration and risk assessment.

Ole Rom Andersen

Ole Rom Andersen - Chief Innovation Officer with Greenport North and a key member of the Greenport Scandinavia (GPS) CC(U)S team. Ole is spearheading developing knowledge and initiating activities in the green fuels arena, facilitating sustainable business development for commercial enterprises and ports in the fields of energy, transportation, and circular industries.

Dr Alexandra Constanta Dudu

Dr Alexandra Constanta Dudu, head of CO2 geological storage department within GeoEcoMar, is a geophysicist graduated from the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics – University of Bucharest, with a PhD Degree in Geology and a master in Evaluation of Sedimentary Basins. She is deeply involved in the research of CO2 geological storage and participated in many national and international projects.

Justinas Jazbutis (KN, Lithuania)

Rouhi Farajzadeh

Rouhi Farajzadeh is an Associate Professor of Reservoir Engineering at TU Delft and a Senior Reservoir Engineer at Shell. His expertise spans enhanced oil recovery, CO₂ sequestration, and flow in porous media. He also holds an adjunct position at Rice University and received the 2018 SPE Regional Award in Reservoir Description and Dynamics. His work bridges academia and industry with a focus on sustainability and applied research.

Dr. Hannah P. Menke

Dr. Hannah P. Menke is an Associate Professor specializing in AI for GeoEnergy, co-founder of the GeoChemFoam project, and co-leader of the DigiPorFlow group. Her work integrates fluid mechanics, computational modeling, and machine learning to develop data-driven solutions for energy, water, and environmental challenges. With a focus on sustainability and innovation, she bridges disciplines to advance scientific understanding and real-world impact.

Clara Axblad

Clara Axblad, Nordics Manager, Bellona Europa Mini-bio: Clara Axblad manages Bellona's work in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Focusing on industrial decarbonisation, Clara's work spans energy systems, CCS, CCU and CDR. Before joining Bellona, Clara worked for the United Nations and Sweden on sustainable development and climate action, including on green economic policy at UNEP in Geneva, and on sustainable food systems, biodiversity and climate resilience at FAO and the Permanent Representation of Sweden to the UN in Rome.

Eve Tamme

Eve Tamme is a seasoned climate policy expert with over 20 years of experience across government, intergovernmental organizations, and advisory roles, currently leading Climate Principles to guide clients on European and global climate strategies, including carbon markets and carbon capture technologies. She has held pivotal roles in Estonian and EU climate governance, notably building Estonia’s Climate Department, advancing EU ETS reforms, and negotiating key agreements during Estonia’s 2017 EU Council Presidency. A recognized thought leader, she chairs the Zero Emissions Platform, serves on boards like Puro.earth, and holds an MSc in Environmental Engineering from TalTech University.

Alar Saluste

Alar Saluste is the COO of R-S OSA Service OÜ, the subsidiary of the environmental company Ragn Sells Group. Under his leadership, the company is implementing an innovative circular economy project aimed at producing ultra-pure and climate-neutral calcium carbonate by valorizing oil shale ash from the electricity industry. Alar has extensive experience in engineering and project management, leading both local and international engineering and production projects in the fields of water and wastewater treatment, circular economy concepts, chemical industries, and crude oil refineries across Europe, the Far East, and Russia. His previous positions include project manager roles at Aqua Consult Baltic OÜ, FLUOR B.V., Eesti Energia AS, and the University of Tartu. Alar holds a master’s degree from the University of Tartu in environmental technology. He has published numerous articles in international scientific journals and author in 2 patents.

Paweł Gładysz

Paweł Gładysz, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels, AGH University of Kraków, Poland, and the President of the CCUS Poland Association. Since 2010, he has actively contributed to numerous research and industrial projects encompassing thermal engineering, modeling and optimization of thermal processes - particularly focusing on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies and combined heat-and-power cycles. His expertise also extends to life cycle assessment, techno-economic analyses, as well as comprehensive energy policy development. As President of the CCUS Poland Association, Dr. Gładysz leads strategic initiatives aimed at fostering collaboration between industry, research institutions, and governmental bodies to advance the adoption and integration of CCUS technologies in Poland.

Dr Alexandra Constanta Dudu

Mirosław Wojnicki

Mirosław Wojnicki, PhD Eng., is a Geologist and Petroleum Engineer, currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Petroleum Engineering Department of the Oil and Gas Institute – National Research Institute (INiG – PIB), Poland.

Ignas Vaičeliūnas

Erika Laajalahti

Erika Laajalahti is the Sector Manager for Carbon Removal and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) at the Bioenergy Association of Finland, representing the interests of the bioenergy and biochar sectors. She leads the association’s committee on CDR and CCUS and is dedicated to positioning Finland as a global leader in developing sustainable, bio-based and even carbon-negative solutions. Erika has background in environmental economics and she has been with the association since 2016.

Krists Mertens

Krists Mertens is Director of Decarbonisation and Energy Projects at SCHWENK Latvija SIA. Mertens gained his experience in management and the energy sector in Latvia, having worked for Enefit for the last eight years. He has served on the company’s Board of Directors since 2018 and as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since 2020. Previous work experience related to financial consulting and banking sector. Mertens holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Economics from Riga Technical University and a Master’s degree in International Business Administration (MBA) from Riga Business School.

Ehsan Marzban

Ehsan Marzban is a futures researcher and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. His expertise lies in futures studies with a focus on energy governance, and he has experience in the socio-political dimensions of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies.

Alva Nåmdal Kjensli

Alva Nåmdal Kjensli is a legal assistant at IOM LAW and works on projects related to CCS, CCUS, negative emissions technologies, and the energy transition in the EU. She is currently studying law at the University of Oslo, where she also holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations with a focus on international law and conflict resolution.

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