The Energy Science Center welcomes 6 new members!
We are glad to present you the 6 professors who joined the Energy Science Center in 2015.
Professor Nicolas Noiray, currently Professor for Energy Technology at ETH Zürich where he leads the laboratory of Combustion and Acoustics for Power Systems since 1st August 2014. His research at ETH will focus on the modeling and control of reacting and non-reacting flows encountered in practical systems like land-based gas turbines for power generation, industrial heating devices, small and large-scale boilers, pipe networks, aero-engines, cryogenic rocket engines or solid propellant boosters among others. Flow stability at various time and length scales will be the common denominator of the experimental, theoretical and numerical research activities performed by his group.
Professor John Lygeros, currently Professor for Computation and Control and Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich. His research interests include modeling, analysis, and control of hierarchical hybrid systems, with applications to biochemical networks, large-scale systems such as power networks, surveillance systems and air traffic management.
Professor Patrick Jenny, currently Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics and he is Deputy Head of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics at ETH Zurich. Prof. Jenny's research group include probability density function (PDF) modeling of turbulent reactive flows, multi-phase flow in porous media, and multi-scale modeling of complex physical phenomena; mainly related to fluid dynamics. New applications areas of PDF methods initiated by the Jenny group include radiation and light scattering in turbid media and the assessment of uncertainty in porous media flows. The group of Prof. Jenny is active in the development of new models and numerical algorithms for the efficient and accurate solution of PDF transport equations and other multi-scale problems
Professor Florian Dörfler, currently Professor of Complex Systems Control at the Automatic Control Laboratory of ETH Zürich.His research interests are centered around distributed control in complex, cyber-physical, and networked systems with applications to energy systems and coordination in multi-agent systems.
Professor Gabriela Hug, currently Professor of Electric Power Systems at the Institute of Electrical Power Systems and High Voltage Technology of ETH Zurich. Her research is on interdisciplinary approaches to the design and operation of the energy networks of the future is receiving great attention from experts. Through her research at ETH Zurich, Gabriela Hug will make a significant contribution to embedding renewable energies more firmly in the energy supply, thus enabling the use of fossil energy sources to be gradually discontinued.
Professor Ulrike Grossner, currently Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research in Baden (AG), as Full Professor of Power Semiconductors. She is an internationally recognised expert in semiconductors. Her specialist area is the development of new semiconductors based on wide bandgap materials. She has previously worked at top universities and in the research departments of leading technology companies. The appointment of Ulrike Grossner will enhance the research carried out at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering in the strategically important field of energy technology and sustainable energy supply.