Research

Because the energy transition relies on many disciplines to be successful, my latest research interest is to explore the opportunities provided by interdisciplinary research.

Three questions driving my work

What the group works on

We model energy systems at multiple scales—from the household and industrial (micro) to the district (meso) and the national and continental (macro). In the lab, we investigate metal fuels, Carnot batteries, electrochemical batteries, and alternative fuels in combustion engines.

Methodological challenges

To address these, we develop methods for uncertainty quantification, near-optimal solution discovery (MGA), decision-tree analysis, and robust design optimization.

Louvain4Sufficiency

I am part of Louvain4Sufficiency, an interdisciplinary network at UCLouvain that studies sufficiency as a response to the ecological, energy, and social crises. It brings together researchers from across the university — engineering, economics, law, psychology, philosophy, and the political and social sciences are only some of the fields involved — to build shared, context-aware approaches to sufficiency, treating it as a priority lever before technological efficiency.

Selected publications

Eight papers that give a fair picture of what the group does: designing and deciding under deep uncertainty, from a single burning iron particle to the energy system of a continent.

The full list is on Google Scholar.