Hey there!
I am a postdoctoral associate at MIT working on the nonlinear optimal design of carbon capture units under uncertainty and reducing emissions from hard-to-abate industries. My research spans environmental life-cycle assessment, process optimization, and sustainable system design, with applications in carbon capture and storage technologies and the broader energy transition.
In my doctoral studies at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), I investigated the design and operation of net-zero energy systems employing multi-criterial optimization to evaluate trade-offs between economic and environmental objectives. I further applied bilevel optimization to model market interactions in the energy transition.
In my research, I have contributed to the Horizon 2020 project DMX™ Demonstration in Dunkirk (3D) by performing life-cycle assessments for full-scale CCUS supply chains. I also evaluated the sustainability of carbon dioxide transport in the Swiss demonstration project DemoUpCARMA, in which we captured and transported CO2 all the way fom Switzerland to Iceland for geological storage in basaltic rock. Right now, I am working on the technoeconomic and life-cycle assessment of carbon capture technologies and on their process-level optimization using GPU-accelerated optimization methods within projects funded by the Future Energy System Center and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Interested in my research? Let me know, I am happy chat!
