November 06 to 11, 2023
Campus Mines Paris – PSL, Sophia Antipolis – FRANCE
Valentina Sessa received a Master’s degree in automatic control engineering and a PhD in information engineering from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, she took up a postdoctoral position at IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From August 2015 to June 2017, she was assistant professor at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil, where she taught two courses: automatic control and mathematical models for electrical engineering. She presently works as a research engineer at Mines Paris – PSL, Sophia Antipolis. Ms Sessa’s current research interests include analysis of non-smooth dynamical systems, in particular piecewise linear and complementarity systems; modelling and control of power electronic converters; numerical algorithms for complementarity problems; and global optimization. More recently, she has focused her research on machine learning techniques applied to energy problems.
Welington de Oliveira’s research focuses mostly on optimization, including nonsmooth optimization, stochastic programming, mixed-integer optimization, energy and power systems management. He has been combining theoretical research in optimization with practical issues of relevance to the energy industry. Before joining Mines Paris – PSL, Dr. de Oliveira was an assistant professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and previously a Postdoctoral Fellow of Excellence at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Brazil). He holds a Habilitation in applied mathematics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (2018), and a PhD. from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2011). Dr. de Oliveira is currently a member of the editorial board of the international journal Computational Optimization and Applications.
Gilles Guerassimoff, a Professor at Mines Paris – PSL in the Centre for Applied Mathematics (CMA) and Director of the Master of Advanced Studies Specialised in Energy Systems Optimisation. Long experience in training and managing educational programs in close relation with academics and industrials. Lectures on energy systems for several institutions. His expertise in energy system modelling, control and prospective led to several project for the modeling of energy systems in order to make prospective studies for decision making or algorithms design for the automation in smart cities.
Dr. Edi Assoumou has been a researcher at the Mines Paris – PSL Centre for Applied Mathematics (CMA) in France since 2007. His research activities focus on energy system analysis and the development and articulation of models of different spatial and temporal resolutions. Edi has been involved in several EU and French projects where his research has covered sustainable transport, urban energy systems, energy and lifestyles, power systems transition, flexibility in gas systems, and Life Cycle Analysis. In particular Edi is an experienced TIMES modeler and coordinates the development of the French TIMES model and its sectoral modules as well as the EU power system model.
Pernille Seljom (PhD) has been a research scientist at the Institute for Energy Technology since 2008. She has a Master of Science (2006) in Energy and Environmental Engineering and a PhD (2017) in Operations Research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Ms Seljom’s thesis was dedicated to improving the representation of intermittent electricity generation and temperature-dependent heat demand using stochastic programming in TIMES models. Seljom is an experienced TIMES modeller. In addition to using TIMES to analyze the transition of the energy system, she assists other institutions in developing their own TIMES models. Her current research focus includes the role of flexibility in a future decarbonized energy system, incorporating competition and interaction between various supply and demand flexibility measures, from a Norwegian and European perspective.
Fionn lectures in Energy Systems Modelling and Energy Engineering in the School of Engineering in University College Cork. He is also a researcher with the Energy Policy and Modelling Group in the SFI MaREI research centre. Fionn has worked with a number of energy system models and has published papers on multi-model approaches combining energy simulation with energy optimization modelling. His other research interests include citizen engagement with energy systems modelling, ex-post analysis of energy policy, and energy innovation. Fionn has provided technical advice and contributed to a number of reports that have directly informed climate and energy policy formation in Ireland.
With a PhD in agricultural engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Yolanda Lechon has been head of the energy unit at Energy System Analysis since 2013. Her main research activities have focused on the economic evaluation of external costs and benefits associated with the production and consumption of energy; the application of ExternE methodology to evaluate the externalities of energy and transport; Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of energy technologies and processes with a special focus on biomass; biofuels and solar thermal technologies; environmentally and socially extended economic input-output modelling to evaluate socioeconomic and environmental effects of energy technologies; and energy system modelling using techno economic partial equilibrium optimization models.
She has participated in several European Commission and national research projects, has acted as a reviewer on several international R&D programs, and is co-author of more than 80 papers and book chapters and more than 60 contributions to conferences and workshops.
Patrícia Fortes is a post-doctoral researcher in the fields of energy systems and energy economics, working at CENSE/NOVA University Lisbon research center. Her research explores the transition to low-carbon energy systems, focusing on technological changes, macroeconomic impacts and energy-climate policy analysis. She has more than 10 years’ experience in energy system and computable general equilibrium modelling, in particular the link between the technological TIMES and economic GEM-E3 models for Portugal. She has worked at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center in Seville (2015) on the development of the POTEnCIA (Policy Oriented Tool for Energy and Climate Change Impact Assessment) model and cooperated in multiple national and international research projects on energy-economy-environment modeling. She also has extensive experience of energy-climate policy support thanks to her work with the Portuguese Ministry of the Environment and Energy Transition. She has a PhD in Environment from NOVA University Lisbon (2014).
PD. Dr. Markus Blesl is head of the System Analytical Methods and Heat Market (SAM) department at the Institute for Energy Economics and Rational Energy Application (IER), part of the University of Stuttgart. He graduated in physics from the University of Stuttgart in 1995 and obtained his PhD on spatially high-resolution modelling of local energy systems from the same university in 2002. In 2014, he habilitated with a thesis entitled, “Combined Heat and Power Generation in the Heat Market of Germany and Europe – an Energy System and Technology Analysis” and received the venia legendi for Energy System and Technology Analysis. His main areas of work include the analysis and evaluation of energy technologies for coupled and uncoupled power and heat generation, as well as the further development and application of energy system models.
Dr. Sandrine Selosse is a researcher at the Centre for Applied Mathematics (CMA) of Mines Paris – PSL. Her research activities focus on long-term modeling of energy systems and the assessment of international energy and climate policy issues. In particular, she implements and develops extensions for the bottom-up world energy system model TIAM-FR (TIMES Integrated Assessment Model). Her research interests are also more recently oriented towards the modelling of user behavior. She also plays a central role in the running of the Chair Modeling for Sustainable Development, created in 2008, for which she coordinates interactions with industrial partners and organizes events and activities. This collaboration between academic, institutional and industrial actors aims to develop decision-making tools for energy and climate issues. Sandrine is also involved in several research projects and teaches classes on long-term energy system modeling and international climate negotiations.
Anna Krook-Riekkola is an Assistant Professor at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden. Her field of research is energy system analysis and modelling with a focus on long-term energy and climate policy assessment. She has worked with the MARKAL/TIMES modelling framework since 2001 and developed TIMES-Sweden – an energy system optimization model of the comprehensive Swedish energy system – first as a part of a European model within two EU projects and then as part of her PhD. Her work also includes methodological modelling, e.g. linking national CGE models with TIMES-Sweden, and developing a generic TIMES-city model (ongoing EU project). She has worked with EU energy system evaluation (at the EU Joint Research Centre in the Netherlands), and has provided policy support to the Swedish government and the Swedish EPA using TIMES-Sweden to explore climate-neutral pathways. Her teaching experience includes courses on sustainable energy systems, environmental systems analysis and sustainable development.
Nadia Maïzi, a Professor at Mines Paris – PSL and Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMA), is an expert in energy system modelling, optimization and prospective analysis. She has been Director of the ParisTech Chair Modeling for Sustainable Development and acted as French delegate on the ETSAP (Energy Technology System Analysis Program) run by the IEA (International Energy Agency) since 2008, while since 2009 she has headed the ParisTech delegation on the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). In addition, Professor Maïzi is head of studies for the advanced Master’s degree OSE (Energy Systems Optimization).