About us

Our work principally focuses on energy efficiency related problems. We consider problems on the power systems level as well as on the device level. More precisely, we work on demand response, energy disaggregation, indoor microclimate control, thermoelectric energy conversion to find innovative solutions that can apply to real-life problems. While our activities mostly rely on mathematical modeling, machine learning methods and numerical simulations, we endeavor to develop experimental works notably in the field of thermal engineering considering the design, fabrication and testing of thermosyphons and vapor chambers for heat exchangers that can be used for, e.g., thermal management in small satellites. 

Fields covered

• Development of realistic mathematical models of systems that work as converters of thermal, electrical, mechanical or chemical energy.
• Study of sources of energy dissipation (heat leakage or through the generation of entropy associated with non-equilibrium processes) and ways to mitigate losses taking into account different types of boundary conditions: potential, flow or mixed.
• Power systems: demand response, energy disaggregation.
• Study of the coupled transport of energy and matter in mesoscopic systems.
• Classical, finite-time and quantum thermodynamics.