Gäumann, Valentin

Valentin is a mas­ter’s stu­dent in Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing at ETH Zurich and a vis­it­ing researcher in Dan Kam­men’s Renew­able and Appropriate
Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry. He brings a human­i­tar­i­an oper­a­tions and sup­ply chain per­spec­tive, improv­ing deploy­ment and main­te­nance strate­gies for
pow­er sys­tems and bio­med­ical equip­ment at health facil­i­ties in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Congo.

Lin, Hanyang

Hanyang Lin is a PhD stu­dent at Tsinghua-Berke­ley Shen­zhen Insti­tute (TBSI), Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty and a vis­it­ing schol­ar at RAEL, UC Berke­ley. His research focus on the elec­tric­i­ty mar­kets and pow­er flow mod­els in the pow­er sys­tem oper­a­tion. His work builds a lin­eariza­tion method of pow­er flow mod­els con­sid­er­ing noze­ro line shunts, and based on the pro­posed pow­er flow mod­els, he pro­pos­es an opti­mal oper­a­tion strat­e­gy for dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem oper­a­tors (DSO), com­pris­ing inter­nal pro­sumers who engage in P2P trans­ac­tions, includ­ing the the­o­ret­i­cal analy­sis to exam­ine the influ­ence of dif­fer­ent P2P trad­ing ratios on the DSO’s opti­mal oper­a­tion strat­e­gy. He is a mem­ber of IEEE Pow­er and Ener­gy Soci­ety and INFORMS. Pri­or to join­ing TBSI, Hanyang grad­u­at­ed from Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don as a mas­ter student.

Zhao, Yayun

Yayun Zhao is a vis­it­ing schol­ar from Huazhong Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (HUST) in Chi­na, with broad inter­ests in ener­gy tran­si­tion poli­cies and tech­nolo­gies. Her research expe­ri­ence includes pow­er sys­tem mod­el­ing, com­par­a­tive analy­sis of U.S. and Chi­na ener­gy poli­cies, and the sec­ond-use of retired bat­ter­ies. She is pas­sion­ate about explor­ing how pol­i­cy and tech­ni­cal inno­va­tions can dri­ve sus­tain­able ener­gy solu­tions and improve the inte­gra­tion of renew­able ener­gy into pow­er grids.

Wang, Yuqi

Yuqi is a PhD stu­dent from Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty with a focus on renew­able ener­gy and pow­er sys­tem plan­ning, espe­cial­ly the solu­tion to the impos­si­ble tri­an­gle of ener­gy. He has been try­ing to extend the plan­ning objec­tive of renew­able ener­gy from mere­ly eco­nom­ic con­cern to low-car­bon, secure and eco­nom­ic objec­tives. Now, he also works on the inter­ac­tion between dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work and elec­tric vehi­cles. In RAEL, he hopes to con­tribute to the con­sump­tion-based CO₂ pol­i­cy analy­sis. As an under­grad­u­ate stu­dent, he also received fund­ing to vis­it Czech Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty in Prague for one semes­ter in 2019.