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Team

David Pozo (Assistant Professor)

David obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Applied Math to Electric Power Systems from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) in 2013. Prior to Skoltech Dr. Pozo worked at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile where he did his postdoctoral research from 2013 to 2015. Dr. Pozo’s research interests lie in the field of energy systems and include operations research, uncertainty, games, and statistics as well as renewable energy and its impact on power systems and electricity markets. He also focuses on problems of optimization and flexibility of modern power systems.

Victoria Erofeeva (Postdoc)

Victoria received her Ph.D. degree in Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Cybernetics from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, in 2018. From 2015 to 2020, she was a researcher with the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Science. Victoria has twice received the St. Petersburg Government Award. She is also a recipient of the award for young researchers from the Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises. Her main interest is in stochastic optimization. Victoria has done research in distributed optimization, system identification, stochastic systems, multi-agent systems, sensor networks, and swarm robotics. Currently, her research is focused on a variety of problems in the area of networked systems.

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Alvaro Gonzalez (Postoc)

Alvaro completed as a distinguished student his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, specializing in energy harvesting at the Universidad del Norte, Colombia, in 2015. In 2017 he received with honors his M.Sc. degree in Power Engineering at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Russia. His M.Sc. thesis “Dynamic multi-site Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch (CHPED) under transmission constraints” was awarded by the Interdisciplinary Contribution Merit Award. In 2021, Alvaro received with honors his Ph.D. in Engineering Systems at Skoltech.

He is involved in the research connected with the flexibility modeling of power systems. His research focuses on the operation optimization of such systems. The research will provide a mathematical model for the integration and characterization of the generation units, energy networks, and storage units.

Anton Hinneck (Ph.D. Student)

Anton Hinneck did his M.Sc. at the Technische Universität Berlin focusing on operations research. Anton is currently working on the transmission switching problem.

Luis Lopez (Ph.D. Student)

Luis holds a B.Eng. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad del Norte, Colombia. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the Engineering System program at Skoltech. The research interest of Luis is related to the large-scale operation of distributed resources in power grids. He also loves keeping up and tinkering with the latest technologies. He has recently spent some time working around with Julia Language, mainly architecting and building solutions on power systems, renewable energy, and microgrids.

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Gretta M. Nikkare (M.Sc. Student)

Gretta has received a bachelor’s degree from the Polytechnic University of Turin with a degree in Energy Engineering in 2020. Currently, she is a second-year MSc student of the Energy Systems track at Skoltech. She is interested in the optimization, analytics of energy markets and P2x applications.

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Anna Malkova (M.Sc. Student)

Anna has completed her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Power Systems and Networks at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University with the topic of “Development and calculation of the high voltage power network 330/110 kV.” Her main interests are related to Renewable Energy sources and EV penetration, reducing carbon print. Current work is related to electric buses implementation as a backup system for power network restoration using optimization methods.

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Dmitrii Zverev (M.Sc. Student)

Dmitrii has received his bachelor’s degree from the Electrotechnical University of Saint Petersburg with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2020 with the research topic: “Investigation of the Robustness of a System with a State Observer.” The research interest of Dmitrii is related to Distribution Networks, optimization methods, and inverter-based grid stability assessment.

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Sahar Moghimian (M.Sc. Student)

Sahar has completed her B.Sc. degree in Power Engineering from IKIU, Iran. She had worked in the energy industry for two years and she become a member of the IEC National Technical Committee, specifically TC82, which deals with Solar Photovoltaic Energy Systems. Currently, Sahar is a second-year Master’s student of Energy Systems at Skoltech. Her research interest is mainly related to the optimal integration of renewables and energy storage systems into the distribution grids.

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Fater Akuhwa (Research Intern)

Fater obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Electronics from the Kazan State Power Engineering University where he graduated with honors in 2019. He proceeded to complete his Masters’s degree at Skoltech in 2021, where he carried out complex research on developing a bidirectional power electronics interface for level-3 charging and discharging of the battery of electric vehicles. His interests cut across the fields of power electronics, electromobility, and power markets.

Research Collaboration

We actively conduct research collaboration with Janusz Bialek, Federico Ibanez, and Aldo Bischi at Skoltech, Munther Dahleh and Mardavij Roozbehani from MIT, USA,  PUC-Rio, Brazil, Enzo Sauma from PUC of Chile, and Nikolay Korgin from IPU RAS, Russia.

Alumni

Andrey Poddubny (MSc), PhD student at TU-Delft, Netherlands
Kirill Bubenchikov (MSc)
Aiusha Sangadiev (MSc)

Andrey Churkin (PhD), postdoc at The University of Manchester, UK.
Irina Lukicheva (Aspirantura)
Oluwaseun Oladimeji (MSc), PhD student at ICAI Comillas, Spain.
Soodanbeck Kasymaliev (MSc)
Daniil Vankov (MSc)

Liliya Ageeva (MSc 2019), working at NLMK Group
Maksim Parshin (MSc 2019), working at ABB
Yinghui Nie
Ilgiz Murzakhanov, PhD student at DTU, Denmark.
Maryam Majidi, PhD student at University of Kassel, Germany.