Morten Hammer grew up near Steinkjer in Norway. After his military service, he travelled to Trondheim, where he completed a Msc. Tech. (2000) and a PhD (2004) in Chemical Engineering at NTNU.
Morten then moved to Oslo where he worked 3 years at Fantoft Process Technologies developing a dynamic process simulator, and 4 years at SPT Group developing the tool which today is known as OLGA, a state-of-the-art software for pipeline flow assurance.
Morten moved back to Trondheim in 2011, where he has worked as a senior research scientist at SINTEF Energy Research until now. It was in SINTEF that he took the role as lead developer of the thermodynamic library called Thermopack, which was released open-source by SINTEF in 2020. Morten has, together with colleagues at SINTEF and NTNU, developed the code continuously since then.
Morten has been a visiting scientist at Imperial college in London and at the University of Stuttgart. He also works part time as an adjunct Professor at NTNU, supervising students and conducting research in the Thermodynamics group.
There are few people with more hands-on experience, knowledge and competence in thermodynamics, equations of state and algorithms for phase equilibrium calculations than Morten. He has an exceptionally broad foundation after having directly contributed to the development of software solutions, both for dynamic process simulations and transient pipeline flow, resulting in software that today is used by companies all over the world. This makes Morten a rock solid choice as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in ThermoPhys.
As CTO in ThermoPhys, Morten Hammer will ensure that the software:
- Has the models with the best accuracy.
- Uses the most robust algorithms.
- nearly always works.
