Our People

Hydrogen Mem-Tech has grown significantly in the last years, but we are still a very lean company. That means we can offer new employees a chance to significantly contribute to innovation, technology development and product offerings from day one.

Hanne Martinussen / CEO Hydrogen Mem-Tech

Hydrogen Mem-Tech is certified as a Great Place to Work. This certification is recognized as a global authority on workplace culture and acknowledges employers for creating exceptional employee experiences. In 2025, Hydrogen Mem-Tech was ranked as number 10 in the Best Norwegian Workplaces Award, in the category of companies with 10-49 employees.

The certification, based on employee feedback and independent analysis, serves as a benchmark for job seekers to identify companies with a genuinely great company culture.

Read more about Hydrogen Mem-Tech's Great Place To Work Certification here.

Most days, Hanne wears two types of helmets. One for the bike ride back and forth to work, and a hard hat when inspecting the shiny new equipment and production lines in the refurbished factory building at Hydrogen Mem-Tech’s headquarters in Trondheim. She still feels very much at home on the factory floor, even though she was promoted from COO to CEO in March 2025. In addition to all that fancy machinery, Hanne also dreams about getting an office shuffleboard. Work hard, play hard! Hanne has a PhD in laser interferometry, but also vast experience from product and technology development, as well as developing the people working with development. Working on great ideas and solutions for the future through science and creative problem-solving, like hydrogen separation, has turned into kind of a lifestyle. “It’s great to be part of something important together with great people sharing a passion for innovation and sustainability”.

Read more about Hanne in this profile interview from when she was Chief Operations Officer.

Martin is a membrane enthusiast with a knack for perfection, whether he’s engineering ultra-thin palladium membranes or stretching out the perfect sourdough pizza dough. With a background in marine technology from NTNU and a passion for metallurgy, he brings a rare blend of academic rigour and hands-on ingenuity to his role. Having joined Hydrogen Mem-Tech in the company’s earliest days, Martin has been instrumental in shaping both product and process. Outside the lab, Martin is rarely standing still. He’s an avid mountain biker with a not-so-cheap downhill setup, a budding golfer and a port wine connoisseur with a sense of humour about it (“it makes me sound very old!”). At home, his perfectionism carries over to the kitchen, particularly when pizza is on the menu. Just don’t ask to help with the sourdough. 

Read more about Martin's perspectives on membranes and sourdough here.

When Magnus had his case presentation during his job interview, he told us the story about the hardest product to move around logistically in his previous job: New-picked strawberries. His passion for optimizing logistics, streamlining processes and to avoid every little bump in the road makes him a very valuable asset for Hydrogen Mem-Tech’s growth journey. “I like to be efficient in my job”, he quips, pun intended. “Working with fresh produce at a grocery chain might seem like a completely different world from hydrogen technology, but you need world-class logistics, purchasing, warehousing and transportation to succeed with both”, he says. Outside of work, he loves spending time with his fiancée and two kids, playing football in the yard, or catch some fish at the family cabin by the sea. Probably getting the catch straight to the kitchen in the shortest time possible!

Read more about how Magnus started in Hydrogen Mem-Tech in this story.

As a daughter of a physicist, Marie has always been passionate about natural science. At NTNU, she started investigating how metal surfaces behave under exposure to process gases. Like palladium, the rare and expensive component so crucial in the membrane of Hydrogen Mem-Tech’s hydrogen separation technology. While working on her PhD at Trondheim’s renowned Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and subsequently a post-doc, she got a whiff of what was going on with our separator development. A great opportunity to combine her science background with the more commercial approach of R&D. Marie is now a beacon of scientific knowledge here at Hydrogen Mem-Tech, constantly working on improving our membrane technology, our product offering and our technology’s overall emission-reducing potential.

Read more about one of Marie's projects, Pallamonia, here.