Bio

Professor Lasse Rosendahl has PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a 30+ year career in academia, focusing on sustainable fuels, renewable energy and CCUS. He is a full professor and served for 6 years as Head of Department in the Department of Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark, before joining Aarhus University and CORC as CEO in March 2025. He is a board member of the Independent Research Fund Denmark (appointed by the Minister of Higher Education & Science), board member of the Danish national CCUS partnership Inno-CCUS, Danish advisor to Horizon Europe Cluster 5 – Climate, Energy and Mobility, Danish node lead for ECCSEL ERIC, the European CCUS research infrastructure consortium and member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.

Area(s) of Expertise

Title: CORC - Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center: research focus and structure

CORC operates on a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation of approx. 100 M USD over the period 2022-2028. It is a mission driven center, with the objective of carrying out research and development within life sciences and chemistry to accelerate climate-change mitigation by CCUS technologies. CORC is a hub-and-satellite organization, with the hub at Aarhus University (DK), and 9 satellites distributed over Germany, USA, Switzerland, Italy and the UK. Approximately 110 researchers are directly associated with CORC research projects.

CORC combines chemistry and life sciences in three major mission streams: Capturing CO2, Converting CO2, and integrated solutions. Biocatalysis is a topic in several of these. A mission enabler stream focusing on AI, machine learning, digital twins and systems modelling, supports the more experimental focus of the three mission streams. It is a key priority of CORC to carry out horizontal interdisciplinary research, across the relevant satellites, as well as to vertically integrate research at different TRLs but within the same value chain, in order to accelerate research towards scale.

CORC welcomes collaboration with other stakeholders, industrial as well as academic.