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INRIA
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IPE
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University College Dublin
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University College Dublin (UCD) is the largest public university in Ireland. Comprised of six Colleges which span the academic disciplines, UCD is a research-intensive global university ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide.
Who’s working on the project
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Assoc. Prof. Paula Carroll from the School of Business is the SEC-OREA project coordinator. She researches the application of Business Analytics and Operations Research techniques to solve energy systems integration problems.
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Dr Conor Sweeney from the School of Mathematics and Statistics is a Principal Investigator and researches Forecasting for Energy Systems Climate modelling.
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A postdoc is to be recruited.
Role in the project
UCD are the project coordinator and lead a work package on Digitalisation and Analytics, and another work package on Energy Scenarios for LECs. Their participation in the SEC-OREA project is supported by the Irish Research Council.
Université libre de Bruxelles
Institution Description
The Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. ULB is one of the two institutions tracing their origins to the Free University of Brussels, founded in 1834 by the lawyer and liberal politician Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.
ULB has 12 faculties that cover all the disciplines, closely combining academic input and research. It offers almost 40 undergraduate programmes and 250 graduate programmes (among them 23 Masters fully taught in English) . It also partners 20 Doctoral schools, with almost 1,600 PhD in progress.
Four scientific Nobel Prizes, one Fields Medal, three Wolf Prizes are further evidence of the University’s longstanding tradition of excellence. The Université libre de Bruxelles is an active member of the Research Area: ULB has received HR Excellence in Research award from the EU (EURAXESS) and also EU funding to hire post-doctoral researchers (COFUND program), for example. Over the past few years, it has obtained 49 Grants (24 Starting, 12 Consolidator, 11 Advanced, 1 Synergy and 1 Proof of Concept Grants) from the European Research Area (ERC) to finance research in Medicine, Mathematics, Political Science, Economics, Physics, etc. In addition, the University’s Institute for European Studies is recognized as a “Jean Monnet European research centre” for its work on European integration.
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Prof. Bernard Fortz from the Computer Science Department is the Principal Investigator for the project at Université libre de Bruxelles. His main research directions related to the project are the development of robust and stochastic optimisation models for energy dispatch and the application of decomposition methods to solve large, realistic instances of these models.
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Cristian Aguayo is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department of ULB, working under the supervision of Bernard Fortz. In the project, he is responsible for the model developments and algorithms implementation, as well as the integration of data provided by the other partners.
Role in the project
ULB lead a work package on Efficient LEC Model Decomposition / Ensembling. This work package aims to:
- Develop efficient algorithmic techniques (decomposition and ensembling methods) to solve realistic size instances using deterministic data.
- Extend to a robust approach to address the uncertainty defined in the scenarios/models of the other working pcakages, including the development of scenarios generated by the work package on forecasting techniques.
Their participation in the SEC-OREA project is supported by the F.R.S.-FNRS.
