Summer School 2026

Luiz Barroso

Luiz Barroso is the CEO of PSR Energy Consulting and Analytics, a Brazilian global provider of modeling tools and market consulting studies, and an Affiliated Researcher of the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) of the Comillas University in Spain. He is a past president of the Brazilian Energy Planning Agency, and was a visitor in the International Energy Agency. His professional experience spans over planning, operations and economics of energy systems with work experience in more than 30 countries. He holds a BSc and PhD degree in Applied Mathematics. He is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions on energy markets and regulation, recipient of the 2025 IEEE Leadership in Power Award and since july 2025 he is an independent member as an energy expert of the Brazilian National Council for Energy Policy.

Henrik Sandberg

Henrik Sandberg is Professor at the Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He received the M.Sc. degree in engineering physics and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from Lund University, Lund, Sweden, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA. In 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, Cambridge, USA. He has also held visiting appointments at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, Australia. His current research interests include security of cyber-physical systems, power systems, model reduction, and fundamental limitations in control. Dr. Sandberg was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2004, an Ingvar Carlsson Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research in 2007, and a Consolidator Grant from the Swedish Research Council in 2016. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the IFAC Journal Automatica, and is currently an elected member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors. He is Fellow of the IEEE.

Martin Bichler

Martin Bichler is Head of the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and head of the research group Decision Sciences and Systems. He is affiliated with the TUM School of Management and a core member of the Munich Data Science Institute. Martin  received his Master degree from the Technical University of Vienna, and his Doctorate as well as his Habilitation from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was a research fellow at UC Berkeley, and a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Later, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, at HP Labs Palo Alto, at the Department of Economics at Yale University, the Department of Economics at Stanford University, and the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute in Berkeley.

Panagiotis Papadopoulos

Panagiotis Papadopoulos is a Reader (Associate Prof.) in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester and a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow working on “Addressing the complexity of future power system dynamic behaviour”. He received the Dipl. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2007 and 2014, respectively. From 2014-2017, he was a post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester and in 2017, he joined the University of Strathclyde as a Lecturer.

His research interests are in the area of power system stability and dynamics under increased uncertainty, introduced due to the integration of new technologies. He is also interested in power system applications of machine learning to tackle complex problems related to power system stability.

Lesia Mitridati

Lesia Mitridati is an Associate Professor in the Department of Wind and Energy Systems at the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. She received the M.Sc. degree in Science and Executive Engineering from Mines Paristech and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. She has spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ETH Zürich. Her research focuses on the interface of machine learning and data-driven optimization, with specific interest in the areas of market design for integrated energy systems, flexibility services, local energy communities, and data analytics.

Jalal Kazempour

Jalal Kazempour is a Professor and Head of the Section for Energy Markets and Analytics in the Department of Wind and Energy Systems at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he also serves as Head of Studies for the MSc program in Sustainable Energy Systems. He is the founder and co-organizer of the annual DTU PES Summer School, an Associate Editor for Operations Research, a member of ACER’s Expert Group on the EU-wide Flexibility Needs Assessment, and a Senior Member of IEEE and INFORMS. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tabriz, Iran, in 2006, his M.Sc. from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, in 2009, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, in 2013. Following his Ph.D., he held postdoctoral positions at Johns Hopkins University (2013–2014) and DTU (2015–2016) and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Calgary, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research focuses on market-oriented, data-driven approaches to the operation and coordination of energy systems, including power, hydrogen, natural gas, and district heating, at the intersection of optimization, control, game theory, and machine learning, aiming to advance market design, grid services, and overall system efficiency.