Dr. Danial Esmaeili Aliabadi
Contact
Dr. phil.
Group Leader Renewable Energies
Department of Bioenergy
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: +49-341-6025-2436
danial.esmaeili@ufz.de
Experience
since 2022 |
Group Leader 'Renewable Energies' Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Department of Bioenergy |
since 2021 |
Postdoctoral Researcher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Department of Bioenergy |
2017-2021 |
Senior Researcher Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate IICEC-Sabancı University TIMES Energy Model |
2017-2017 |
Postdoctoral Researcher Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences |
2016-2017 |
Part time Instructor Özyeğin University Department of Industrial Engineering |
2012-2016 |
Ph.D. Student Sabancı University - Industrial Engineering Analysis of Collusion and Competition in Electricity Markets Using an Agent-Based Approach |
2009-2011 |
M.Sc. Industrial Engineering Qazvin Azad University |
2003-2008 |
B.Sc. Industrial Engineering Abhar Azad University |
Honors and Awards
- Awarded full scholarship for Helmholtz Leadership Academy "Leading with Impact", 2024.
- Invited Speaker to the Panel Session on Intelligent Decision Making in Power and Energy Systems Using Multi-agent Systems, @IEEE PES General Meeting in Denver, Colorado, 2022.
- Second place at AI Hero Hackathon on Energy Efficient AI, 2022
- Invited Speaker to the Panel Session on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Power Systems, with Focus on the Development of Local Energy Markets, Summer School @EPIA, 2019.
- Best Paper Award in Facility Planning and Management Track, IEOM 2012.
- Third place at International RoboCup Competitions, Turkey, 2011.
- Third place at International RoboCup Competitions, Singapore, 2010.
Special Issues
Projects
Ph.D. Students
- Mohammad Sadr
- Sandra Gutjahr
- Katrina Chan (external)
M.Sc. Students
- Agnes Csilla T. Szabo
Upcoming Publications
- Wulff, N., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Hasselwander, S., Pregger, T., Deniz, O., Gils, H.C., Kronshage, S., Ruiz, E.A. Grimme, W., Horst, J., and Jochem, P., Energy system implications of different demand scenarios and supply strategies for renewable transportation fuels, (submitted).
- Esmaeili Aliabdi, D., Wulff, N., Lehneis, R., Sadr, M., Reutter, F.J., Jordan, M., Lehmann, P., and Thrän, D., Germany's Wind Energy Expectations: A Multi-Model Evaluation of the Land Availability and Climate Impact (in preparation).
- Sadr, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., and Thrän, D., A bottom-up regional assessment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in Germany, (in preparation).
- Esmaeili Aliabdi, D., Jordan, M., Meurer, A., Wulff, N., Power-to-X and Bioenergy: Competition and Synergy in Germany, CRC Press (in preparation).
UFZ Publications
Index:
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2024 (1)
- Sadr, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Avşar, B., Thrän, D. (2024):
Assessing the impact of seasonality on bioenergy production from energy crops in Germany, considering just-in-time philosophy
Biofuels Bioprod. Biorefining 10.1002/bbb.2602
2023 (11)
- Aigner, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Amri-Henkel, A., Anderson, J., Becker, L., Bergfeld, M., Brand-Daniels, U., Braun-Unkhoff, M., Brinkop, S., Brosowski, A., Deniz, Ö., Dietrich, R.-U., Eisenmann, C., Ennen, D., Eschmann, J., Frieske, B., Grimme, W., Haas, S., Hasselwander, S., Hauser, E., Heib, S., Heimann, N., Hendricks, J., Hildebrand, J., Hoyer-Klick, C., Jordan, M., Kronshage, S., Lutz, C., Mantke, H., Matschoss, P., Mertens, M., Neitz-Regett, A., Österle, I., Oswald, M., Pichlmaier, S., Prause, J., Pregger, T., Raab, M., Richter, S., Ruiz, E.S.A., Wulff, N., Zeck, B. (2023):
Roadmap für strombasierte Kraftstoffe. Gesamtbericht zur Begleitforschung Energiewende im Verkehr (BEniVer)
Verbundvorhaben BEniVer, Begleiterforschung EiV, Stuttgart, 540 S. 10.5281/zenodo.10208039 - Aigner, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Amri-Henkel, A., Anderson, J., Becker, L., Bergfeld, M., Brand-Daniels, U., Braun-Unkhoff, M., Brinkop, S., Brosowski, A., Deniz, Ö., Dietrich, R.-U., Eisenmann, C., Ennen, D., Eschmann, J., Frieske, B., Grimme, W., Haas, S., Hasselwander, S., Hauser, E., Heib, S., Heimann, N., Hendricks, J., Hildebrand, J., Hoyer-Klick, C., Jordan, M., Kronshage, S., Lutz, C., Mantke, H., Matschoss, P., Mertens, M., Neitz-Regett, A., Österle, I., Oswald, M., Pichlmaier, S., Prause, J., Pregger, T., Raab, M., Richter, S., Ruiz, E.S.A., Wulff, N., Zeck, B. (2023):
Forschungsinitiative Energiewende im Verkehr. Kurzbericht zur Roadmap für strombasierte Kraftstoffe
Verbundvorhaben BEniVer, Begleiterforschung EiV, Stuttgart, 47 S. 10.5281/zenodo.10216192 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Chan, K., Wulff, N., Meisel, K., Jordan, M., Österle, I., Pregger, T., Thrän, D. (2023):
Future renewable energy targets in the EU: Impacts on the German transport
Transport. Res. Part D-Transport. Environ. 124 , art. 103963 10.1016/j.trd.2023.103963 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Jordan, M. (2023):
Final report of the UFZ subproject for BEniVer – Accompanying research on energy transition in transport
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, 31 pp. 10.57699/f04y-7207 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Jordan, M. (2023):
Abschlussbericht des UFZ-Teilprojekts zu BEniVer – Begleitforschung zur Energiewende im Verkehr
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 33 S. 10.57699/k6mb-rt27 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Jordan, M., Thrän, D. (2023):
The complementary role of utility-scale battery energy storage systems and bioenergy in future German transportation
19th International Conference on the European Energy Market, Lappeenranta, Finland, 06-08 June 2023
EEM 2023
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York, NY, p. 1 - 6 10.1109/EEM58374.2023.10161801 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Manske, D., Seeger, L., Lehneis, R., Thrän, D. (2023):
Integrating knowledge acquisition, visualization, and dissemination in energy system models: BENOPTex study
Energies 16 (13), art. 5113 10.3390/en16135113 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Wulff, N., Jordan, M., Cyffka, K.-F., Millinger, M. (2023):
Soft-coupling energy and power system models to analyze pathways toward a de-fossilized German transport sector
In: Grothe, O., Nickel, S., Rebennack, S., Stein, O. (eds.)
Operations Research Proceedings 2022. Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Karlsruhe, Germany, September 6-9, 2022
Lecture Notes in Operations Research
Springer, Cham, p. 313 - 320 10.1007/978-3-031-24907-5_38 - Jordan, M., Meisel, K., Dotzauer, M., Schindler, H., Schröder, J., Cyffka, K.-F., Dögnitz, N., Naumann, K., Schmid, C., Lenz, V., Daniel-Gromke, J., Costa de Paiva, G., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Szarka, N., Thrän, D. (2023):
Do current energy policies in Germany promote the use of biomass in areas where it is particularly beneficial to the system? Analysing short-and long-term energy scenarios
Research Square 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3481495/v1 - Jordan, M., Meisel, K., Dotzauer, M., Schröder, J., Cyffka, K.-F., Dögnitz, N., Schmid, C., Lenz, V., Naumann, K., Daniel-Gromke, J., Costa de Paiva, G., Schindler, H., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Szarka, N., Thrän, D. (2023):
The controversial role of energy crops in the future German energy system: The trade offs of a phase-out and allocation priorities of the remaining biomass residues
Energy Rep. 10 , 3848 - 3858 10.1016/j.egyr.2023.10.055 - Sadr, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Avşar, B., Thrän, D. (2023):
Assessing the seasonality impact on bioenergy production from energy crops in Germany
In: de Bari, I., Scarlat, N., Grassi, A. (eds.)
31st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 5-8 June, Bologna, Italy
EUBCE Proceedings
ETA-Florence Renewable Energies, Florence, p. 284 - 289 10.5071/31stEUBCE2023-1DV.4.16
2022 (7)
- Chan, K., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Schneider, U.A., Thrän, D. (2022):
Diet-energy nexus: Meeting climate targets by shifts in food-demand
In: Chevet, P.-F., Scarlat, N., Grassi, A. (eds.)
Setting the course for a biobased economy. 30th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, online, 9-12 May 2022
EUBCE Proceedings 2022
ETA-Florence Renewable Energies, Florence, p. 322 - 324 10.5071/30thEUBCE2022-2CO.8.1 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Chan, K. (2022):
The emerging threat of artificial intelligence on competition in liberalized electricity markets: A deep Q-network approach
Appl. Energy 325 , art. 119813 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119813 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Chan, K., Jordan, M., Millinger, M., Thrän, D. (2022):
Abandoning the residual load duration curve and overcoming the computational challenge
2022 Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES) April 4-5, 2022, Aachen, Germany. Proceedings
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York, NY, p. 1 - 6 10.1109/OSMSES54027.2022.9769166 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Margenberg, N., Schotthöfer, S. (2022):
AI HERO Hackathon 2022 - Team E3 model parameters [Data set]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.5958552 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D., Bezama, A., Avşar, B. (2022):
A systematic analysis of bioenergy potentials for fuels and electricity in Turkey: a bottom-up modeling
In: Constable, E.C. (ed.)
Transitioning to affordable and clean energy
Transitioning to Sustainability 7
MDPI, Basel, p. 295 - 314 10.3390/books978-3-03897-777-3-10 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., van Woensel, T. (2022):
How customer choice shapes network structure over multiple periods: Model and solution
SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4217491 - Millinger, M., Tafarte, P., Jordan, M., Musonda, F., Chan, K., Meisel, K., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D. (2022):
A model for cost- and greenhouse gas optimal material and energy allocation of biomass and hydrogen
SoftwareX 20 , art. 101264 10.1016/j.softx.2022.101264
2021 (1)
- Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Çelebi, E., Elhüseyni, M., Şahin, G. (2021):
Modeling, simulation, and decision support
In: Pinto, T., Vale, Z., Widergren, S. (eds.)
Local electricity markets
Academic Press, Amsterdam, p. 177 - 197 10.1016/B978-0-12-820074-2.00017-4
Past Publications
ORCID: 0000-0003-2922-2400