Associate ProfessorJannik Haas

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐆 is working on:
- Renewable energy integration
- Solar systems economics
- Power-to-X systems (including multi-energy and green hydrogen)
- Energy storage
- Energy transitions modelling
- Carbon-negative systems

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬: Rebecca Peer and Jannik Haas

Associate academics:

• Grant Read, Power Economics, Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering, UC
• David Dempsey, Carbon Systems, Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, UC
• Allan Scott, Green Cement, Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, UC

Researchers:

1. Dr. Ana Pueyo (Adjunct Senior Fellow and Energy Specialist, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand): Energy for the Pacific Islands
2. Dr. Vikash Singh (Postdoctoral researcher): biomass for low-carbon cement
3. Dr. Karan Titus (Postdoctoral researcher): carbon-negative geothermal energy
4. Dr. Rasul Satymov (Postdoctoral researcher): uncertainty quantification of energy transitions
5. Hadi Vatankhah (Postdoctoral researcher): sustainable energy hubs
   
   
6. Francisco Astorga (PhD researcher): social and environmental impacts of energy futures
7. Sophie Braddick (PhD researcher): uncertainty modelling in energy transitions
8. Akash Handique (PhD researcher): energy transitions for the Pacific Islands
9. Madison Zegeer (PhD researcher): robust decision-making for energy futures
10. Meihui Huang (incoming PhD researcher): on- and off-shore wind power models
11. Vicente Sepulveda (PhD researcher): long-term storage with hydrogen
12. Meisy Fortunatus (PhD researcher): resilience of future energy systems 
13. Catalina Klausen (PhD researcher): optimization of CO2 capture and storage systems
14. Haolong Pang (Master researcher): multi-service battery modelling
15. Grant Telfar (Industry PhD researcher): centralised versus decentralised energy management
16. Rodrigo Zamorano (PhD researcher): carbon storage modelling in aquifers
17. Amir Shahmohamadi  (PhD researcher): Synthetic fuel modelling
18. Gregor Riha (PhD researcher): Industrial energy strategies
    
    
19. Patrick Martin (international PhD researcher from Uni. Stuttgart): smart water-energy systems

Recent alumni of SERG:

• Dr. Baxter Williams (Postdoc at SERG): now at University of Notre Dame
• Dr. Stella Steidl (PhD at SERG): now at ETH Zurich
• Dr. Rafaella Canessa (PhD at SERG): now at ETH, Zurich
• Dr. Matias Paredes (co-supervised PhD by SERG): now at the Ministry of Energy, Chile
• Dr. Simon Moreno (co-supervised by SERG): now at Berlin Energy and Grid Holding

Collaborating academics:

• Fabian Dunker, Inverse Problems,  Mathematics and Statistics, 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

• Alaa Alhamwi, Energy Systems Analysis, German Aerospace Centre, Germany
• Alice Bennet, Environment and Sustainable Development Engineering, University of Cambridge
• Christian Breyer, Solar Economy, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Finland
• Andre Cabrera, Environment and Sustainable Development Engineering, University of Cambridge
• 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, University of Groningen
• 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
• Philip Odonkor, Department of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology, U.S.
• Matias Paredes, Energy Ministry of Chile
• Ana Pueyo, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Rachel Wagner, Saint Francis University, U.S.
• Manuel Wetzel, Energy Systems Analysis, German Aerospace Centre, Germany

Visiting researchers (sorted by date):

• Paul Fabianek (incoming visiting researcher from RWTH Aachen, Germany): sustainable buildings strategies.
• Joana Felipe (incoming visiting researcher from Universidad de Chile): lifecycle assessment of energy technologies
• Michael Scheffler (incoming visiting professor from Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany): recycling of sustainable technologies.
• Theresa Heinrich (visiting researcher from Fraunhofer FIT, Germany): CO2 certificates for the hydrogen supply chain.
• Cristiane Carvalho (visiting professor from Universidad Magallanes, Chile): large-scale hydrogen hubs.
• Sven Teske (visiting professor from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia): future energy vectors.
• Pierluigi Mancarella (visiting professor from the University of Melbourne, 2025): future power systems.
• Rodrigo Palma (visiting professor from the University of Chile, 2025): solar energy systems.
• Alice Bennett (visiting researcher from Cambridge, 2025): hydrogen technologies modelling.
• Andre Cabrera (visiting professor from Cambridge, 2025): energy systems.
• 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