The SelfChill Team

We are a cooperation of different institutions with the same goal: Promote the use of solar energy for refrigeration. Our focus are the use of off-grid solar energy for agricultural value chains in rural areas of the tropics and subtropics. Our strategy, the distribution of key components to facilitate the local production of solar cooling systems with a modular design. The SelfChill aproach!


Developer of SelfChill Components and Trainings

Dr. Victor Torres-Toledo

Founder & CEO

SONJA METTENLEITER​

Engineering, Field Testing and Trainings

Dr. Ana Salvatierra-Rojas

Expert on agricultural Value Chains

Julian krüger

Research & Development

(Freelancer)

Dr. Muaz Bedru

Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Adebiyi Adebayo

Research Engineer at Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute, Nigeria

SelfChill Components distributor and integrator

Géraldine Quelle

Project Manager

Research and Innovation

Florian Martini

Project Engineer 

Research and Innovation

Manuel Willhaus

Sales Engineer

Tropics/Subtropics group of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Hohenheim leaded by Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Farah mrabet

Expert on dairy value chain , socio-economic assesments and field trials