Brown Bag seminar: How can steel and cement address the climate crisis?

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar on Wed 16th of April to learn about how steel and cement could address the climate crisis. The speakers of this seminar are Assistant Professor Vahid Javaheri from the Materials and Mechanical Engineering Research Unit working with the H2Future research programme and Professor Päivö Kinnunen from the Fibre and Particle Engineering Research Unit where he leads the Magnesia-based materials and systems research group.

Assistant professor Javaheri will talk about how steel has become so important for our society, why it has a grave role in climate change, and what strategies could lead to net-zero emission steel manufacturing.

Professor Kinnunen will discuss the potential of construction materials to store carbon dioxide, and specifically the possibilities of using magnesium to bind and store carbon in these materials.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 16th of April from 11 am to 12 pm at Tellus Stage on Linnanmaa campus. Lunch will be provided for those who register by Friday 11th of April at 12 pm. The seminar will be in English.

If you cannot make it to the Linnanmaa campus, you can also participate via Zoom. If you participate via Zoom, you don’t need to register for the event.

Note UniOGS Doctoral Researchers: You can add Brown Bag Seminars in your personal learning plan and once you have attended 10 Brown Bag Seminars, you can get 0,5 credits of doctoral studies.