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
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.
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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2024 (5)
- 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 - 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 - 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., 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 - Wulff, N., Esmaeili Aliabadi, D., Samuel, H., Pregger, T., Özcan, D., Gils, H.C., Kronshage, S., Ruiz, E.S.A., Grimme, W., Horst, J., Jochem, P. (2024):
Energy system implications of demand scenarios and supply strategies for renewable transportation fuels
SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4820179
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):
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. (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., 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