Award to Professor with Business Appeal and Piano Fingers · 11. April 2011
Award to Professor with Business Appeal and Piano Fingers
Multiple inventions in the energy field and a key role in Aalborg University's record-breaking collaboration with wind turbine manufacturer Vestas have now been rewarded with an Innovation Award to Remus Teodorescu, the 45-year-old Romanian-born professor in the Department of Energy Technology.
The honor and the award of 100,000 kroner come from the North Jutland University Foundation in recognition of Remus Teodorescu’s contribution to the development of innovative energy solutions. He is a co-inventor on eight reported inventions so far, and four of them have either been licensed or sold to national and international companies.
Inventions related to solar cells, wind turbines and control of lighting and motors have helped to improve the technology in specific products from Danfoss, and Remus Teodorescu is also a recognized name with another large Danish company. Since 2007, Remus Teodorescu has headed the joint research by Aalborg University and wind turbine manufacturer Vestas which, under the name Vestas Power Program, is the largest venture of its kind from a wind turbine manufacturer and a university.
Alongside his many business-oriented activities, Remus Teodorescu has published around 200 research articles and received four international awards. According to colleague Professor Frede Blaabjerg, there are also other reasons than the purely professional that Remus Teodorescu is valued by colleagues and collaborating partners:
- Remus is excellent at facilitating joint progress, and he manages to get people around him to think it's fun and exciting. At the same time, he always has a focus on things having to be used afterwards. And he’s not just a technical person – he also devotes some of his time to playing the piano. He has one in the office and he’s in a band, reveals Frede Blaabjerg.
The Innovation Award was presented at the University's annual celebration on April 8th.
