Natasa Nord is Professor at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU), Norway. She has strong background in district heating, energy planning, building energy monitoring, building simulation, optimization, and fault detection. She was a member of the Outstanding Academic Fellowship Programme at NTNU that focuses to qualify some of our foremost young research talents for internationally leading research careers. She has been a project leader for three research projects, three Horizon 2020 MSCA-PF, several collaboration and industry related projects, and two projects on innovative teaching. Some of her projects were focusing on performance and control analysis of heat pump and energy supply systems for buildings. In the laboratory, the entire CO2 heat pump plant and the heated room has been developed by her and the laboratory engineers. In addition, she is responsible for a district heating rig in the laboratory.