Profile

I am an associate professor at DTU Civil and Mechanical Engineering. I have been working on smart energy systems and smart cities projects, including EU SEEDS, EU RETIME, STAR*track, BIPED, BEGONIA, IFD CITIES, EUDP EnergyLab Nordhavn, EUDP IEA EBC Annex 67 and Annex 82, IFD SEM4Cites, EU Combiotes, and EU ARV. My focus in the projects is on building energy flexibility, including thermal and electrical flexibility, using modeling and data-driven approaches. 

I am the principal investigator of the large project SEEDS “Cost-effective and replicable Renewable Energy Sources integrated electrified heating and cooling systems for improved energy efficiency and demand response.” I am the operating agent of the IEA EBC Annex 82, an international collaboration running from 2020 to 2025 on "energy flexible buildings towards resilient low-carbon energy systems." I am also a board member of the Horizon Europe R&I partnership Built4People, contributing to defining the built environment's research topics in Horizon Europe. 

I have (co)supervised seven Ph.D. students who graduated successfully, and I am supervising two working on energy flexibility in buildings and districts using data-driven approaches. I have been a member of evaluation committees for 14 Ph.D. theses for universities, including UC Dublin, TU Eindhoven, Chalmers University of Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of South Australia, Polytechnic University of Turin, Concordia University, etc.

My research interests include smart cities, smart buildings, energy demand flexibility, energy resilience in the built environment, energy system modeling, data mining, building physics and services. I have published many articles in high-profile scientific journals, e.g., Applied Energy, Energy, Energy and Buildings, Building and Environment, Applied Thermal Engineering, etc. 

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