Simon is Research Scientist at SINTEF Energy Research and has more than 10 years of experience in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). In addition to his position at SINTEF, he has also worked at the Economic studies department at IFPEN (France) and has been a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in the Engineering and Public Policy department. His areas of expertise include techno-economic analysis, value chain analysis, and optimization of CCS and hydrogen. He has authored more than 45 scientific publications, and has been project leader and sub-project leader for multiple Norwegian and international projects. Simon has a M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from ENSIC (Nancy, France) and an M.Sc in Energy Economics Engineering from IFP School (Rueil-Malmaison, France). Rahul is a Research Scientist at SINTEF Energy Research.

He has worked in CCS, H2 production from NG for over 15 years apart from experience in energy efficiency improvement and debottlenecking in refineries (over 4 years) and design and commissioning of NPK fertilizer plants (around 3 years). Rahul's expertise is on systematic design, integration and optimization of separation and fuel conversion processes. He has extensively worked on integrating and benchmarking CO2 capture technologies in different industrial and power plants. He has led multiple industrial projects in addition to being project leader and sub-project leader of multiple Norwegian and international projects. Rahul Anantharaman has a PhD in Energy and Process Engineering from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).