Nathalie Casas Head of the Department Energy, Mobility and Environment Empa

Nathalie Casas leads Empa's "Energy, Mobility and Environment" department as of 1 October 2023. She brings a broad range of start-up, industry, and innovation promotion experience in addition to her academic track record with cutting-edge research. As a long-time leader in the fields of research, development and technology, she also has a wide range of additional skills, including the successful building of teams and the recruitment of exceptional international talent. Casas' research focuses on carbon dioxide removal and Power-to-X technologies. She studied chemical and bioengineering at ETH Zurich and received her PhD also from ETH Zurich for the development of an adsorption process for pre-combustion CO2 capture in the context of an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC).

Before that, Casas worked at the ETH spin-off and cleantech company Climeworks as Head of R&D and is a member of the Innosuisse Innovation Council.