Leads: Rebecca Peer and Jannik Haas

Researchers:

• Francisco Astorga (PhD researcher): social and environmental impacts of energy futures
  
• Sameen Bushra (PhD researcher): co-optimization of water-energy infrastructures
  
• Rafaella Canessa (PhD researcher): energy transitions for New Zealand including green hydrogen applications
• Akash Handique (PhD researcher): energy transitions for the Pacific Islands
• Stella Steidl (PhD researcher): urban energy hubs with green hydrogen
• Karan Titus (PhD researcher): carbon-negative geothermal energy
• Hadi Vatankhah (PhD researcher): sustainable energy hubs 
• Madison Zegeer (PhD researcher): robust decision-making for energy futures
• TBA (PhD researcher): long-term storage with hydrogen
• TBA (PhD researcher): resilience of future energy systems 
• TBA (PhD researcher): optimization of CO2 capture and storage systems

• Francisco Flores (international PhD researcher from Uni. Catolica Valparaiso): energy transitions for South America including international trade
  
• Patrick Martin (international PhD researcher from Uni. Stuttgart): smart water-energy systems
• Matias Paredes (international PhD researcher from Uni. Chile): deep uncertainty decision-making for energy transitions

Collaborating staff:

• David Dempsey, Carbon Systems, Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, UC
• Mehdi Ekbatani, Transportation Systems, Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, UC
• Markus Pahlow, Water Systems, Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, UC
• Grant Read, Power Economics, Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering, UC

• Alaa Alhamwi, Energy Systems Analysis, German Aerospace Centre, Germany
• Christian Breyer, Solar Economy, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Finland
• Felipe Feijoo, Electrical Power Systems, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile
• Hans Christian Gils, Energy Systems Analysis, German Aerospace Centre, Germany
• Pierluigi Mancarella, Chair Of Electrical Power Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Wided Medjroubi, Energy Systems Analysis, German Aerospace Centre, Germany
• Rodrigo Moreno, Institute of Complex Engineering Systems, University of Chile, Chile
• Wolfgang Nowak, Stochastic Simulation and Safety Research for Hydrosystems, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Rodrigo Palma, Energy Center, University of Chile, Chile
• Rachel Wagner, Saint Francis University, U.S.
• Manuel Wetzel, Energy Systems Analysis, German Aerospace Centre, Germany

Visiting researchers (sorted by date):

• Sven Teske (incoming visiting professor from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia): future energy vectors.
• Pierluigi Mancarella (incoming visiting professor from the University of Melbourne, 2025): future power systems.
• Rodrigo Palma (incoming visiting professor from the University of Chile, 2025): solar energy systems.
• Alice Bennett (incoming visiting researcher from Cambridge, 2025): hydrogen technologies modelling.
• Alicia Pilsl, Michael Kasenbacher, Simon Stuber (visiting interns from the University of Regensburg, Germany, 2024): energy futures.
• Juan Carlos Osorio-Aravena (visiting senior researcher from the Solar Energy Research Center, Chile, 2024): future energy sector demands for New Zealand.
  
• Leon Schumm (visiting researcher from the University of Regensburg, Germany, 2024): PyPSA for New Zealand
• Ali Torkayesh (visiting researcher from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2024): social preferences on future energy systems
• Manuel Wetzel (visiting researcher from the German Aerospace Centre, Germany, 2024): hydrogen infrastructure planning for NZ and Germany
• Patrick Martin (visiting researcher from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2024): smart water-energy systems
• Neven Duić (visiting professor from the University of Zagreb): how to build 100% RES energy systems
• Melissa Ale (visiting researcher from the University of Chile, Chile, 2023): resilient planning for NZ's energy system 
• Ashish Gulagi (visiting senior researcher from the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Finland, 2023): multi-sector planning for NZ
• Will McNeil (visiting researcher from University of California Berkeley, U.S., 2023): sustainable heavy-truck transport
  
• Rachel Wagner (visiting professor from Saint Francis University, U.S., 2023): co-impacts of energy transitions
• Christina Benighaus (visiting senior researcher from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2023): social risk communications of energy transitions 
• Carlos Alvear (visiting researcher from the University of Chile, Chile, 2022): strategic hydrogen reserves for NZ and Chile
  

• 2025-2029 Derisking Carbon Dioxide Removal at Megatonne Scale in Aotearoa. Dempsey D, Peer R, Haas J et al. NZ MBIE Endeavour.
• 2024-2027 Comprehensive zero-carbon strategy for South America: Advancing energy equity and green hydrogen. Haas J, Peer R. UC’s SDG projects.
• 2023-2026 Adaptive decision-making tool for multi-source water and energy infrastructure optimisation. Pahlow M, Haas J. UC’s SDG projects.
• 2022-2025 New Zealand-German platform for green hydrogen integration (HINT). Haas J, Peer R et al. German BMBF and NZ MBIE.
• 2022-2025 Methods for the coordinated optimization of water supply systems with evolving energy systems under deep climatic uncertainty. Nowak W, Haas J [international collaboration with the University of Stuttgart]. German DFG.
• 2022-2027 Pūhiko Nukutū: a green hydrogen geostorage battery in Taranaki. Nicol A, Dempsey D, Adams M et al. (with Peer R). MBIE Endeavour.
• 2022-2025 Enhancing risk assessment by understanding cascading failures. Logan T, Peer R, Zorn C. Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE.
• 2022-2025 Pathways to net-zero carbon buildings and communities. Bellamy L, Peer R, McNabb S. BRANZ.