Dr. Danial Esmaeili Aliabadi
Contact
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
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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
- Winning the UFZ Research Award, 2024.
- 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.
Projects
Ph.D. Students
- Mohammad Sadr
- Sandra Gutjahr
- Katrina Chan (external)
M.Sc. Students
- Agnes Csilla T. Szabo (Finalized)
UFZ Publications
Index:
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2025 (6)
- Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Jordan, M., Meurer, A., Wulff, N. (2025):
Defossilization dynamics : exploring the interplay of power-to-X and bioenergy
Power-to-X in regional energy systems
CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, p. 24 10.1201/9781032719436 - Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Pinto, T. (2025):
Modeling electricity markets and energy systems: challenges and opportunities
Energies 18 (2), art. 245 10.3390/en18020245 - Gutjahr, S., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2025):
Exploring the impact of weather variability on bioenergy and variable renewable energy
2025 21st International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York, NY, p. 1 - 6 10.1109/EEM64765.2025.11050134 - Szabó, Á.C.T., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2025):
Investigating the bioenergy potential in achieving the energy and climate targets of Hungary: An optimisation approach
SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.5128005 - Wulff, N., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Hasselwander, S., Pregger, T., Gils, H.C., Kronshage, S., Grimme, W., Horst, J., Hoyer-Klick, C., Jochem, P. (2025):
Energy system implications of demand scenarios and supply strategies for renewable transportation fuels
Energy Strateg. Rev. 58 , art. 101606 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101606 - Wulff, N., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Hasselwander, S., Pregger, T., Kronshage, S., Grimme, W., Horst, J., Arellano Ruiz, E.S., Oezcan, D., Österle, I., Raab, M. (2025):
Energy system implications of demand scenarios and supply strategies for renewable transportation fuels [dataset]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.14203522
2024 (10)
- Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Wulff, N., Lehneis, R., Sadr, M., Reutter, F.J., Jordan, M., Lehmann, P., Thrän, D. (2024):
Climate change may impair the transition to a fully renewable energy system
SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4960744 - Forootani, A., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2024):
Bio-Eng-LMM AI assist chatbot: A comprehensive tool for research and education
arXiv 10.48550/arXiv.2409.07110 - Forootani, A., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2024):
Climate aware deep neural networks (CADNN) for wind power simulation
arXiv 10.48550/arXiv.2412.12160 - 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. (2024):
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
Energy Sustain. Soc. 14 , art. 32 10.1186/s13705-024-00464-1 - Jordan, M., Meisel, K., Dotzauer, M., Schröder, J., Cyffka, K.-F., Dögnitz, N., Schindler, H., Schmid, C., Lenz, V., Naumann, K., Daniel-Gromke, J., Costa de Paiva, G., Szarka, N., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2024):
Scenarios for the optimal use of biomass in the future German energy system until 2050
32nd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 24-27 June, Marseille, France
EUBCE Proceedings
ETA-Florence Renewable Energies, Florence, p. 224 - 227 10.5071/32ndEUBCE2024-2DO.5.2 - 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 18 (4), 883 - 898 10.1002/bbb.2602 - Sadr, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Jordan, M., Thrän, D. (2024):
A bottom-up regional potential assessment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in Germany
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (11), art. 114047 10.1088/1748-9326/ad7edd - Sadr, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2024):
Assessing the potential of negative emission technologies for Germany’s netzero target: A techno-economic analysis of
forest-based solutions
7th Doctoral Colloquium Bioenergy: 24th/25th September, 2024, DBFZ, Leipzig
DBFZ Tagungsreader 32
DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH, Leipzig, p. 49 - 49 10.48480/xa7y-fp21 - Sadr, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Thrän, D. (2024):
Modeling the integration of BECCS into German bioenergy system
6th Doctoral Colloquium Bioenergy: 18th/19th September, 2023, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen
DBFZ Tagungsreader 28
DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH, Leipzig, p. 20 - 21 10.48480/dvmt-q267 - Sadr, M., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Wollnik, R., Thrän, D. (2024):
Navigating the combined potential of BECCS and forest-based solutions from the German bioenergy system perspective to achieve net-zero emissions
32nd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 24-27 June, Marseille, France
EUBCE Proceedings
ETA-Florence Renewable Energies, Florence, p. 352 - 356 10.5071/32ndEUBCE2024-2BV.9.4
2023 (10)
- 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 - 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 - 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., 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