The Battery Safety Conference 2026

Fride finished her PhD on Li-ion battery technology at the University of Tulsa, USA, in 2005 and have worked with battery technology for more than 20 years. For 11 years she lead the battery research group at NTNU in Trondheim, with focus on materials development and advanced materials and electrochemical characterization. Since 2019 Fride have worked at SINTEF Energy, with focus on larger battery cells, modules and systems, thermal behavior and battery safety. For the past 5 years she have coordinated SINTEF's corporate efforts on batteries.

Jessica Helldén is a Sustainability and HSE manager at Ingrid Capacity and has been part of the company since its founding. With a background in early-stage project management, she specialises in permitting, regulatory processes, and integrating sustainability and HSE principles into operations. Jessica leads sustainability and safety initiatives at Ingrid.

Jonna Hynynen, PhD, is a Project Manager at Chalmers Industriteknik, leading research in advanced materials and safe, sustainable energy applications. She earned her PhD from Chalmers University of Technology in 2019. After completing a postdoc, she worked at RISE’s Fire and Safety department before joining Chalmers Industriteknik.

Nate Sauer is a research engineer at the UL Research Institute's Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI) and holds a PhD in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). At FSRI, Nate works on battery fire research, including full-scale electric-vehicle burn and suppression experiments, explosion hazards from battery thermal runaway gas, e-mobility device failures in commuter railcars, and safe disposal and energy dissipation of fire-damaged batteries.

I am an Industrial PhD student at TU Graz and a Thermal Engineer at Rimac Technology in Zagreb, Croatia. My work and research focus on thermal runaway propagation modelling in lithium-ion batteries, combining experimental data with advanced simulation tools. Besides that, I am responsible for development and analysis of thermal management systems for high-performance electric vehicles that Rimac Technology is the supplier to. My work bridges academia and industry, with interests spanning battery safety, heat transfer, and model-based engineering.

Robert Eriksen Jacobsen is the Founder and CEO of EPTTAS, specializing in data-driven solutions for battery safety and electric transportation. Having founded several technology companies, he bring expertise in applying data and AI to mobility and energy systems. At EPTTAS, their focus is solving electrification’s blind spot — while electrification is transforming transport, logistics, and energy storage, safety has not kept pace. They use advanced analytics to close that gap and make electrification safer and more sustainable.

After studying Marine Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, Syb joined the R&D department at Damen Shipyards where he performed research on the aging of batteries in electric vessels, developed a battery sizing and selecting method and worked on the design of many different types of battery powered vessels. In 2021 he joined the Maritime Battery Forum as managing director, focusing on the promotion of batteries in the maritime industry and supporting the sector with all battery related challenges.