Research
MIT Energy Initiative / Department of Chemical Engineering | MIT
Cambridge, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Associate | - present
Technoeconomic and environmental assessment, as well as nonlinear process optimization of point source carbon capture processes.
Reliability and Risk Engineering | ETH Zurich
Zurich Switzerland
Postdoctoral Associate | - 1/2025
Technoeconomic and environmental life-cycle assessment of strontium-based direct air capture.
Energy and Process Systems Engineering | ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Doctoral Student | -
Thesis: Design and Operation of Sustainable Net-Zero Energy Systems
- Life-cycle assessment of carbon capture and storage supply chains in the Horizon 2020 project DMX™ Demonstration in Dunkirk and the Swiss demonstrator project DemoUpCARMA
- Modeling and mathematical optimization of sector-coupled energy system transition to net-zero considering cost & environmental impacts
- Supervision of Ph.D. students, including the development of their research plans and manuscripts
- Coordinator and leader of the carbon capture and storage research team
Forschungszentrum Jülich | Energy System Engineering
Jülich, Germany
Research Assistant | -
Method development for long-term optimal scheduling of industrial energy systems with time-coupling constraints
Education
RWTH Aachen University | Aachen, Germany
M.S. Energy Engineering | -
Thesis on handling time coupling constraints and variables in operational optimization of renewable energy systems
RWTH Aachen University | Aachen, Germany
B.S. Mechanical Engineering | -
Thesis on operational flexibility of buildings for providing energy services