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LIRE's former interns
Julius Susanto
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Education:
  • BEng (Hons), Electrical Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
  • Grad. Dip, Business Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth Australia (ongoing)
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Electrical engineer for Borda Hydro projects
  • Engineering design and economic modeling for Drinking Water Purification, Pico Hydro and Shared Pico Hydro

Duration of internship:
March 2009 - October 2009
Christian Heeg
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Education:
  • Dipl. Engineer for Renewable Energy Technology – University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen / Germany
  • MSc-Programme – Technology and Resource management for the Tropics and Subtropics – ITT, University of Applied Sciences Cologne / Germany
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Research of SME and sanitation development in Lao PDR

Duration of internship:
March 2009 - June 2009
Maja Bormann
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Education:
  • Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Sciences, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Agronomical trials on Jatropha (fertilization and spacing)
  • Extension Material for Jatropha
  • Feasibility study for biofuel operated rural electrification in Luang Prabang province
  • Feasibility study for biomass gasification potential in Xaignabouri

Duration of internship:
December 2008 - June 2009
Mattijs Smits
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Education:
  • BSc Science and Innovation Management, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • MSc Management of Agro-ecological Knowledge and Social change, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Establishing the LIRE Pico-Hydro program phase I
  • Designing Pico-Hydro program II
  • Negotiating and Implementation of second project phase
  • Market assessment for Pico-Hydropower in Northern provinces
  • Extension material for Pico-Hydropower
  • Feasibility study biomass gasification

Duration of placement:
September 2007 - May 2008
October 2008 - April 2009

Leen Labeeuw
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Education:
  • MEng (Honours) Biochemical Engineering – University College London
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Water sampling and testing for the solar powered water purification project
  • Supervision of drilling the borehole at Ban Sor village
  • Communication amongst other stakeholders in the Wash-sector in Lao PDR

Duration of internship:
September 2008 - March 2009
Andrew Murfin
Andrew Murfin
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Education:
  • BEng (Honours) Civil and Environmental Engineering – University College London
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Continuing the improvement, methodology and upscaling of the water purification technology
  • Testing of chlorine treatment of water bottles for cleaning.
  • Finding additional pilot villages to test the water purification method

Duration of internship:
July 2008 - October 2008
Sugandha Priyadarshani Gurung
Sugandha Priyadarshani Gurung
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Education:
  • Master of Science in Environmental Sciences (Expected in 09/2008)
    Specialization in Environmental Systems Analysis
    Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Master of Arts in Anthropology
    Tribhuvan University, Nepal
  • Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
    Kathmandu University, Nepal
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Continuation of the biomass gasification program of LIRE and ETC Energy
  • Report on field research on the potential of rice husk for biomass gasification in Khammouan and Bolikamxay province
  • Report on field research on potential for biomass gasification in Xieng Khouang

Duration of internship:
May 2008 - August 2008
Vilaisuck Boualy
Vilaisuck Boualy
Education:
  • Diploma of Agriculture, majoring in Livestock and fishery, Dongkhamxang Agriculture Technical School, Lao PDR
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Monitoring and evaluation of growth of different LIRE Jatropha plantations
  • Involving Dongkhamxang Agriculture Technical School in the LIRE Jatropha program
  • Day-to-day maintenance of Jatropha nursery and plantations

Duration of internship:
November 2007 - August 2008
Phomma Thitluangxay
Phomma Thitluangxay
Education:
  • Diploma of Agriculture, majoring in Livestock and fishery, Dongkhamxang Agriculture Technical School, Lao PDR
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Monitoring and evaluation of growth of different LIRE Jatropha plantations
  • Involving Dongkhamxang Agriculture Technical School in the LIRE Jatropha program
  • Day-to-day maintenance of jatropha nursery and plantations

Duration of internship:
November 2007 - August 2008
David Appel
David Appel
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Education:
  • Master of physics, specialized in environmental physics – University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Researching and testing water purification technologies
  • Surveying villages for water quality and health impact assessment
  • Testing water bottling and various disinfection methods
  • Creating user manuals for devices to be used in remote villages

Duration of internship:
December 2007 - July 2008
Thomas Pircher
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Education:
  • Bachelor of Science Landuse - Technical University of Munich - WZW Weihenstephan / Germany
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Jatropha program particular developing agronomic research including setting up the Jatropha breeding program.
  • Participating on Biofuel conferences.
  • Field trips and investigation to Biofuel development in Laos.

Duration of internship:
November 2007 - June 2008
Packy Sakountia

Education:
  • Bachelor program at the Faculty of Business at Lao-American College, Vientiane / Lao PDR
Worked at LIRE on:
  • General administrational support of LIRE
  • Translation of documents from Lao to English and vice versa
  • Accounting and bookkeeping for LIRE

Duration of Internship:
November 2007 - December 2007
Suvisanna Mustonen
Suvisanna Mustonen

Occupation:
  • Research Scientist at Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics
Education:
  • PhD candidate, Energy Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
  • M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Worked at LIRE on:
  • "Modeling of Autonomous Power Systems – A Mathematical Model of a Hybrid Power System”
  • prepared and carried out a survey in Nam Ka on different energy uses prior to electrification

Duration of Internship:
August 2006 - March 2007
Alex Miller
Alex Miller

Education:
  • Master student of Energy- and Environmental Management at the University of Flensburg / Germany
Worked at LIRE on:
  • Implementation of Clean Development Mechanisms with Jatropha
  • Water pump and purification system supplied by solar power
  • Technical and Economic Feasibility of Hydro-Diesel Village Grids for Rural Electrification in Laos

Duration of Internship:
August 2006 - March 2007