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Tom Brown (he/him)

I lead a research group that explores the most cost-effective pathways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy system at the Technical University of Berlin, where I have been professor for Digital Transformation in Energy Systems since April 2021. We use detailed computer models to optimise the interactions of variable renewable energy and supporting infrastructure, with the goal to find low-cost and otherwise attractive solutions for the energy transition. We maintain the free software Python for Power System Analysis (PyPSA) and associated libraries, as well as the European model PyPSA-Eur.

Previous positions:

2018-2021: Between April 2018 and March 2021 I was a researcher at the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where I led the Energy System Modelling Group funded by a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group Grant.
2015-2018: Between October 2015 and March 2018 I held a postdoctoral research position at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, working first on renewable energy integration in the CoNDyNet project and then in the RE-INVEST project.
2012-2015: Between May 2012 and September 2015 I worked on grid integration of renewable energy at Energynautics GmbH.
2009-2011: Postdoctoral researcher at DESY, working as a physicist researching string theory in the group of Volker Schomerus.
2005-2009: I obtained my PhD in physics in 2009 from the Centre for Research in String Theory at Queen Mary, University of London under the supervision of Sanjaye Ramgoolam.
2001-2005: I hold a BA (completed 2004) and MMath (completed 2005) in theoretical physics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

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