Originally from Waremme, Philippe Mathieu picked up his physical engineering degree from the University of Liège in 1968, and then a doctorate in 1974. Returning to Liège after a gap carrying out military service, he followed a classic path: assistant, lecturer and then professor, first in nuclear engineering and then in fossil fuel power stations and finally in renewable energies. He mainly teaches energy production in all its forms to electro-mechanic students in the Masters programme.

His research activities are concentrated on technologies aimed at reducing CO2 emissions in power stations. Fifteen years ago he played a pioneering role in the field of zero emission technology. He organised the first international seminar on the subject at Liège in 1995. On a national scale, he was part of the AMPERE commission, whose objective was make plain the state of affairs of energy production technologies between the years 2000 and 2015. On an international level, he has participated in a number of European projects concerning CO2 capture and storage (JOULE II; CASTOR; ENCAP; DECARBit). He is the author of a vast number of publications and presentations at international conferences on the subject. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of two major international journals: Energy, the International Journal (Elsevier) and International Journal of Green House Gas Control (Elsevier). He is a member of the scientific committees of several international congresses: PowerGen Europe; ECOS: International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems; Clean Air; ECEMEI: EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF ENERGY IN INDUSTRY. Philippe Mathieu is an IPCC member and contributed to the drawing up of a special report, ‘CO2 capture and storage’, in 2005. In this role he shared the honour of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize together with the other members and with Al Gore.

Selection of publications

MATHIEU P., The IPCC special report on carbon dioxide capture and storage, ECOS 2006, July 2006, Creta, Greece.

MATHIEU P., Materials challenges in CO2 capture and storage, COST conf, Liège, published in “Energy Materials : Materials Science and Engineering for Energy Systems ”, sept 2006, Maney Publishing, Vol 1, n°3,pp 143-151(9)

MATHIEU P., Zero Emission Technologies : An Option for Climate Change Mitigation, International Jl of Green Energy,Taylor & Francis ed, 2005, Vol 2, n°2, pp 193-200.

DECHAMPS P., DISTELMANS M., MATHIEU P., PIRARD N., Performances of combined cycle power plants using CO2 gas turbines, Flowers’94 conf,1994, ppp 671-682.

MATHIEU P., DERUYCK J., The CO2 gas turbine option for recovery of CO2 in CC and IGCC plants, IGTI, 1993,vol 8, pp77-83.

MATHIEU P. in coll. with MATHIEU P-P., Zero Emission Technologies- a key strategic option for climate change mitigation, Greenhouse issues n° 63, 2002