Avsalt was founded as a Swedish company with the aim to build a commercial system for water desalination. Today the Avsalt headquarter is based in Malmö, Sweden and the R&D is running at Delft, the Netherlands. The development of Avsalt’s desalination device is carried out at TU Delft in close association with the Department of Process and Energy.
Test and evaluation engineer
Paula has a degree in Energy Engineering from the Carlos III University of Madrid and is passionate about sustainability.
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Jonas has long experience from engineering, construction and project lead.
Materials and electrode manufacturing engineer
Thomas is a dedicated chemist who has long experience from making slurries and paint.
Chief Commercial Officer
Niclas has more than 25 years of experience from leading positions in business development, product management, sales, marketing, production and leadership of high performing teams in the B2B industry.
Scientific Advisor
Niels received his PhD in 2012 from Utrecht University, with his thesis on electrostatics in ionic solution, followed by a postdoctoral position at Northwestern University, Chicago USA. In 2016, Niels was appointed Research fellow at Lund University, Sweden, where he studied the dynamics of polymers in solution with varying salinity. Niels has received several awards including Molecular Physics’ Longuet-Higgins Young author’s Prize for his publication “Blue energy: From ion adsorption and electrode charging in sea and river water”, and the Future Innovation Honorary Award from Lund University for a desalination device without pumps or valves.
Chairman
Thomas is a cleantech entrepreneur and investor with broad experience of governing growth companies, following positions at both investment-fund level, for Industrifonden, and company level as CoB at Nasdaq First North listed companies.
Inventor & Founder
Niels received his PhD in 2012 from Utrecht University, with his thesis on electrostatics in ionic solution, followed by a postdoctoral position at Northwestern University, Chicago USA. In 2016, Niels was appointed Research fellow at Lund University, Sweden, where he studied the dynamics of polymers in solution with varying salinity. Niels has received several awards including Molecular Physics’ Longuet-Higgins Young author’s Prize for his publication “Blue energy: From ion adsorption and electrode charging in sea and river water”, and the Future Innovation Honorary Award from Lund University for a desalination device without pumps or valves.
Board Member
Kristofer has started several award-winning companies over the past 20 years. He has run companies in the biotechnology, cleantech and foodtech areas and is the current CEO of publicly listed Carbiotix AB.