Tapio Alvesalo

He worked at Cornell as a post doctoral research associate in 1975-1978 in collaboration with Professor Robert Coleman Richardson, a Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1996.

After returning to Finland in 1978 Dr. Alvesalo was invited to join Neste Oy, the Finnish national oil company, as a Corporate R&D Officer.

1980's During 1983-1989 Dr. Alvesalo headed Neste Battery Division's strategic R&D on advanced energy storage technologies and electric vehicle concepts.

NAPS developed and marketed advanced energy systems based on solar electricity, wind, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and supplied products to over hundred countries world wide.

1990's In 1993-1998 Dr. Alvesalo chaired NEMO,[2] the Finnish National Research Program on Advanced Energy Systems and Technologies.