Members of YEEES
Leonardo Meeus is scientific coordinator of the DG Energy Think Tank at the European University Institute (EUI) in Italy, and associated professor at the University of Leuven (KULeuven) in Belgium. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and a master in commercial engineering, both from the KULeuven.
YEEES contributions: co-founder with Yannick Perez, organizer of the launching seminar in Leuven, participated in both Leuven seminars, and the seminars in Dresden, and Florence.
YEEES for me: conceived to help PhD students bridge the gap between papers that are good enough to be accepted for presentation at the average conference, and papers that stand a chance to be accepted by the better journals.
Hannes Weigt is postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Energy Economics (EE2) at Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden). He holds a PhD in economics and a diploma in industrial engineering, both from TU Dresden. His research focus is on electricity market modelling, network aspects, competition policy, and renewable energies. See www.hannesweigt.de
YEEES contributions: Paris (2007), Vienna (2008), Leuven (2009), Cambridge (2010).
YEEES for me: getting and giving some decent input and feedback on papers in every stage of the process, learning recent trends in energy research, meet nice people.
YEEES for me: getting and giving some decent input and feedback on papers in every stage of the process, learning recent trends in energy research, meet nice people.
Luis Olmos is a researcher at the Florence School of Regulation within the European University Institute, where he is currently involved in the Think Tank project for the European Commission. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the Pontifical Comillas University.
YEEES Contributions: he was the coorganizer of the Madrid edition on the workshop in September 2008 and contributed to the Vienna edition in the spring of 2008.
YEEES for me: it is an excelent forum for PhD students to discuss their research work with their counterparts and professors so as to improve it. It also provides the opportunity to build quite fruitful professional relationships.
Carlo Obersteiner is researcher at the Energy Economics Group within Vienna University of Technology. He holds a MSc in electrical engineering from Vienna University of Technology.
YEEES contributions: organizer of the seminar in Vienna (2008), contributed to the Dresden (2007) seminar.
YEEES for me: an excellent opportunity to get intense feedback on PhD research, network and initiate research co-operations.
YEEES contributions: organizer of the seminar in Vienna (2008), contributed to the Dresden (2007) seminar.
YEEES for me: an excellent opportunity to get intense feedback on PhD research, network and initiate research co-operations.
Yannick Perez is associate Professor of Economics in University Paris-Sud 11 and Loyola de Palacio Chair coordinator (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute Italy). He holds a PhD in Economics from Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne .
YEEES contributions: co-founder with Leonardo Meeus and various presentations and referee works in all the YEEES seminars.
YEESS for me: YEEES is a European place created to foster interactions between young researchers, Post-Docs and more advanced professionals. For me, the aim of YEEES is to help PhD students to do more and better! The outcomes are both in terms of improvement of the current PhD works, stimulating deeper and sounder research in the fields of energy research by cross-fertilization of economics and engineering, and lastly, to increase the relevance of the research in the field of Energy Policy.
Friedrich Kunz is research associate at the Chair of Energy Economics (EE2) at Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden). He holds a diploma in industrial engineering from TU Dresden. His research focus is on electricity market modeling (esp. stochastic modeling), network aspects, and renewable energies.
YEEES contributions: Paris (2007), Vienna (2008), Leuven (2009), Cambridge (2010).
YEEES for me: an opportunity to present and fruitfully discuss research ideas and papers, to think outside one's own research box, and meet young energy researcher
Amy O’Mahoney is an economics PhD student in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Electricity Research Centre (ERC), which is an industry-university research collaboration with research driven by the energy industry worldwide and a particular emphasis on the Irish electricity sector. Amy is funded through the Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Programme. She holds an M.Sc in economics from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
YEEES contributions: Cambridge 2010
YEEES for me: an excellent environment in which to discussresearch interests with peers – both as a method of giving and receiving feedback and in terms of greater exposure to others in similar fields.
Martin Rixen is an economics PhD student at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Mgmt. in Vallendar, Germany. Furthermore, he works as a Consultant for Accenture Germany. His research focus is on Smart Metering and Grids, Industrial Organization and Agent-based Simulations. He holds a diploma in Business and Management Studies from the Business and Information Technology School in Iserlohn, Germany.
YEEES contributions: Cambridge 2010
YEEES for me: a perfect environment to discuss research results with peers!
Batsaikhan Nyamdash is a PhD student in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Electricity Research Centre of University College Dublin (UCD). His current research focuses on the issues related to the Economics of Electricity Storage. He holds MA / H.Dip in Economics from UCD and BA in Applied Mathematics and BA in Business administration from Khan-Uul Institute of Mongolia.
Contribution: 2010 YEEES Seminar in Cambridge, UK.
YEEES for me: Opportunity to receive constructive feedback and suggestions for the improvement of your work and to network with other researchers who are working in related areas.
Patrik Buijs is a PhD student at the Electrical Department (Electa-ESAT) of the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). He holds a master degree in commercial engineering from K.U.Leuven. His research deals with transmission investments in Europe, in particular techno-economic aspects of planning and financing transmission investments in a multilateral context.
YEEES contributions: Leuven(2006), Vienna(2008), Florence(2009), Leuven(2009), Cambridge(2010)
YEEES for me: the ideal opportunity to meet researchers from other groups dealing with similar techno-economic topics and daily problems; each time a boost to continue your research and improve your papers; a way to set up long term informal collaboration with other PhD students. YEEES fills the void between the more formal academic conferences and 'daily work'.
Nico Keyaerts is research associate at the University of Leuven (KULeuven) in Belgium. He holds a master in commercial engineering from the KULeuven. His research focuses on technical and economic aspects of flexibility in liberalized gas markets.
YEEES contributions: Paris (2007), Vienna (2008), Madrid (2008), Leuven (2009).
YEEES for me: getting feedback on research ideas and papers, and interact with other energy researchers.
Yannick Rombauts is a research associate at the department of Mechanical Engineering within the University of Leuven (KULeuven) in Belgium. He holds a master in commercial engineering from the KULeuven. His research deals with the technical and economic aspects of wind energy integration.
Yeees contributions: Leuven (2009), Cambridge (2010)
Yeees for me: A meeting place of young researchers, where you can discuss in an easy way new ideas, meet new interesting people and build up a wider scientific knowledge base.
Gerd Küpper worksas a PhD researcher for the Energy, Transport and Environment Research Group at the K.U.Leuven Centre for Economic Studies (Belgium). His research focuses on competition in electricity markets as well as on the strategic interaction between importers and exporters of natural gas.
Gerd holds a Master in economics (Université de Liège, Belgium) and an Advanced Master degree in Economics (K.U.Leuven).
YEEES Contributions: Leuven (2006) – Dresden (2007) – Paris (2007) – Vienna (2008) – Madrid (2008) – Leuven (2009) – Cambridge (2010)
YEEES for me : The optimal place to present a first draft of a research paper. More experienced YEEES participants know me as “Mr. Küpper”.
Thilo Grau is a research associate at the Berlin office of the Climate Policy Initiative. He holds a Master of Science degree in Business Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and a Maîtrise degree in Economics from Ecole Normale Supérieure and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Before joining CPI, Thilo was a consultant with one of the world’s leading strategy consulting firms and worked for several companies in India, Germany and South Africa. His key research interests are energy economics, photovoltaic technology policy and the future evolution of renewable electricity generation.
YEEES contributions: Cambridge (2010)
YEEES for me: an ideal forum to receive valuable feedback on research results and to meet interesting researchers who work on related topics within energy economics and engineering.
Cedric De Jonghe is a doctoral researcher at the Electa Branch of the K.U.Leuven Energy Institute and a visiting researcher at the Electricity Policy Research Group (University of Cambridge). He holds a master degree in commercial engineering from the K.U.Leuven. His current research focuses on electricity market modeling with respect to the integration of renewable energy sources and the interactions between renewables targets and CO2 mitigation.
YEEES contributions: Paris (2007), Madrid(2008), Leuven (2009), Cambridge (2010)
YEEES for me: The best way to meet people, get and give constructive feedback and have an informal discussion afterwards.
Remco Verzijlbergh is PhD student at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Engineering of Delft University of Technology. The main focus of his research is how the flexibility offered by electric vehicles can provide additional value to various actors operating in the electric power system in the light of higher shares of renewable energy production. He
holds a master degree in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology.
