Research Interests
I aim to support infrastructural planning decisions for the energy and water sector to increase robustness to future socioeconomic and climate change. Additionally, I am interested in mitigating the conflicts between traditional cost-minimization approaches and environmental and social objectives to address broader sustainability challenges.
From a methodological perspective, I am interested in developing and applying techniques from evolutionary multi-objective optimization, stochastic optimal control, and artificial intelligence to address complex sustainability challenges.
Technology innovation forecasts
- What is the predictive skill of experience curves for technology forecasts? (in progress)
Integrated water-energy-climate modeling
- Strategic dam planning
- Sequencing African hydropower projects within energy system planning
- Exploring conflicts between environmental and techno-economic objectives for African hydropower expansion (in progress)
- Joint optimization of planning and operations in the Zambezi River Basin
- Impact and vulnerability assessment of electricity systems under climate change
Decision-making under uncertainty for climate policy
- Multi-objective optimal control for climate policy design
- Self-adaptive multi-objective climate policies to align mitigation and adaptation strategies
- Robust decision-making to align economic, environmental, and social objectives in climate policy design
- Cooperative multi-agent climate policy design (in progress)