Current
NU-ACTIS:
The Clean Energy Transition Partnership project NU-ACTIS (Navigating Uncertainties: Advanced Control Solutions for Inverter-Dominated Power Systems,
2025-2028) explores advanced control solutions for inverter-dominated
power systems. The project comprises eight partners from industry and academia and is coordinated by the
Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). UCD's participation is funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).
I am a principal investigator in the project and UCD leads its first work package.
RINN Energy:
Research & Innovation in Energy System Decarbonisation (RINN Energy) is a National Research and Innovation Centre that brings together expertise from ten Irish institutions across science,
engineering, economics, policy, and the social sciences. Its goal is to advance a whole-system approach to energy, spanning
renewable energy supply, smart grids, transport, industry, and communities.
I am a Principal Investigator of RINN Energy within the thematic area Smart, Secure, and Resilient Energy Networks.
NexSys:
Next Generation Energy Systems (NexSys) is an all-island, multidisciplinary energy research project
in Ireland that defines pathways to a net zero energy system. The project is funded by the Science Foundation
Ireland (SFI) Strategic Partnership Programme (grant. no. 21/SPP/3756, 2022-2026), as well as by nine industry co-funding
partners and one philanthropic donor. I have been a funded investigator of NexSys since the beginning of 2025,
working on the Energy Systems strand of the project.
Previous
NCCR Automation: The NCCR (National Centre of Competence in Research) Automation (grant no. 51NF40 18054) is a project funded
by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It investigates new approaches to the control of complex automated systems and implements them in concrete applications, aiming to strengthen Switzerland's role in automation and control technology. I was a member of NCCR Automation from May 2022 to Mar. 2023, fully funded by the project. My primary task was to develop scalable analytical and numerical methods for future power systems.
edgeFLEX:
The EU H2020 project edgeFLEX (grant no. 883710, 2020-2023)
explored solutions that enable the provision of control services to the grid by Virtual Power Plants (VPPs),
i.e., by control centres that aggregate heterogeneous distributed energy resources. edgeFLEX comprised ten
partners from industry and academia and was coordinated by
Ericsson GmbH. I was a member of the edgeFLEX team from Oct. 2020 to Apr. 2022,
running UCD's participation. During that period I
was fully funded by the project. My primary task
was to develop frequency control concepts for VPPs and Energy Communities.