Dr. Jaka Tušek an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). His PhD focused on active magnetic regenerators for magnetic refrigeration. He later spent two years as a postdoc at the Technical University of Denmark working on elastocalorics. His research interest includes cooling, heat-pumping and energy conversion based on caloric effects in ferroic materials. He published 51 scientific papers in international scientific journals, among others in Nature Energy, Science and Joule. He is a co-author of a scientific book and has two international granted patents. In 2018, he received currently the most prestigious European research grant founded by European Research (ERC Starting grant) for research in elastocaloric cooling technology. To date, he has acquired and lead projects in the total amount of about 3.5 million euros (ERC Starting grant, ERC Proof of the concept grant, two EIC Pathfinder grants, national and industrial projects).

Plenary talk: Solid-State Thermal Storage: State of the art and perspectives