I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Technology Systems at the University of Oslo. I work on energy system modelling and optimisation, focusing on how environmental and social realities reshape the design of low-carbon energy systems when brought inside planning models.
I completed my master's and PhD at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2017–2023), where I developed optimisation models for off-grid renewable energy systems with explicit representation of component-level behaviour. My postdoctoral research addresses macro-scale energy system planning. I work with highRES, an open-source capacity-expansion and dispatch model of the European power system at high spatial and temporal resolution.
Large-scale energy system models provide valuable evidence for energy policy and planning, yet they have been widely criticised for their techno-economic bias and limited representation of real-world social and environmental constraints. To address this, I work on integrating into the model the social and environmental dimensions that conventional modelling leaves out. I coupled high-resolution biodiversity and forest data with system optimisation, quantifying how ecological siting constraints reshape technology mix and system cost (covered in Titan). Through participatory workshops with over 250 participants, including young people, communities, and energy experts, I integrated societal preferences as a structural variable, showing how socially preferred designs shift the generation mix of future net-zero systems. I am currently extending the model from single-year optimisation to multi-period pathway modelling.
I lead TEK5410 Electricity System Modelling and Analysis course and supervise master's theses and summer projects. I supervised the development of an interactive decision-support dashboard for highRES. I have authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications, cited over 2,700 times, and contributed to research proposals for the Research Council of Norway and Horizon Europe. I welcome collaboration and thesis supervision in energy system modelling, long-range energy projections, socio-technical analysis, and the integration of social and environmental dimensions into energy planning.
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