Selected Talks and Presentations
Deep Learning Surrogates For Low-Voltage Grid Expansion Planning
Conference Presentation, Power Systems Computation Conference 2026, Limassol, Cyprus
How can deep-learning surrogates speed up low-voltage grid expansion planning without losing the system behavior that planners care about? Can we generate such models with completely open-sourced, verifiable datasets? Even if you are not into ML, maybe just our data-generation tool is interesting all by itself - the most fun I have ever had working on an idea.
District Heating Systems Laboratory Infrastructure - Key features, challenges and notable examples from Europe
Invited talk, Workshop on Intelligent Planning and Control of District Heating and Cooling Systems, Bayreuth, Germany
I just love laboratories - I find it fascinating to compare them and position them in the broader research landscape. Always know what your tool can exactly do. So, what does a useful district-heating laboratory need beyond just hardware? This invited talk highlights key infrastructure features, practical implementation challenges, and notable European examples that make district-heating labs valuable for experimental energy-systems research.
Surrogates for Energy System Modeling Frameworks
Invited talk, EMT Colloquium, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Can surrogate models make energy-system modeling frameworks faster? Well yes. But are these serious ideas? Can we do it with the amount of data we generally have in our workflows? Can we realistically scale it for the whole country? Can we make them predict voltages as well?
Data-driven voltage control in distribution grids - Perspectives from Germany
Invited talk, DTU Power Event, Lyngby, Denmark
This invited talk presents recent perspectives from Germany on data-driven voltage control in distribution grids, including what laboratory validation can reveal about performance, robustness, and deployment constraints in practice.
PHIL for benchmarking and heating grids
Invited talk, DTU Syslab, Roskilde, Denmark
How can PHIL experiments be made useful for benchmarking across coupled electricity and heating-grid studies? This talk focuses on reproducible PHIL setups and on making results comparable across laboratories, scenarios, and controller designs.
PhyLFlex HEMS Benchmarking
Symposium talk, HEMS Symposium 2025, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
This symposium talk presents benchmarking work from PhyLFlex HEMS, focusing on how home energy-management strategies can be compared consistently across experimental setups, test cases, and control objectives.
PHIL in Sector coupling
Workshop talk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, ITEP, Karlsruhe, Germany
Everybody knows what Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) looks like in a power systems laboratory. But can it be used in sector-coupling research? What does PHIL for the heat prosumers and grid look like?
Grid-connected, data-driven inverter control
Invited talk, TUM Chair of Energy Management Technolgies Colloquium, Munich, Germany
A talk regarding our recent work with the Dörfler group at ETH Zürich. Can a purely data-driven (NOT machine learning!) controller work on a grid-connected inverter - without any knowledge of the inverter or grid dynamics?
M-Class PMU on general purposed embedded controllers
Conference talk, IEEE PowerTech 2023, Belgrade, Serbia
We show that a standard inverter controller can become an M-Class Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) with just a software update. This approach adds grid monitoring functions to existing hardware without needing extra wiring or instrumentation, using the controller’s available processing power.
PHIL Heat-pump for sector coupling experiments
Conference Presentation, Power Systems Computation Conference, CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay, France
We address the challenge of testing heat pumps in power system laboratories, which often lack the necessary hardware and expertise to model heat prosumers. We present a virtual heat pump on a PHIL amplifier to accurately test how heat pumps can provide grid services, like fast frequency response.
Theory to Practice: Design, Integration and Applications for an Active Distribution Grid Laboratory
Thesis defense, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
How to build a realistic and collaborative testbed using real prosumers, real grid and distributed controls? I present three applications which demonstrate the effectiveness of the CoSES lab in bridging theory and practice.
Harmonic estimation on decentralized real-time controllers
Conference Presentation, Power Systems Computation Conference, INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
Can we measure power, for PHIL-grade feedback, by combining voltage and current measurements from two different controllers? We present a signal analysis method that allows synchronized controllers to share accurate measurements despite communication delays and unknown signal harmonics.