DrElina Spyrou
Leverhulme Assistant Professor in PST
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
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- Leverhulme Assistant Professor in PSTDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 1102, Electrical Engineering, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Elina is the Leverhulme Assistant Professor in Power System Transformation. She joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London in January 2023. Her research aims to provide evidence and methods to support hard decisions in the electric sector.
Hard decisions are characterized by complexity, uncertainty, multiple objectives, multiple perspectives, and sensitivity of outcomes to input assumptions. In the electric sector, hard decisions range from long-term investments to the design of electricity markets and services for effective system operation. Her research team applies engineering-economic optimization models to capture key aspects of the decision context and demonstrate the effects of alternative decisions.
Before joining Imperial, Elina was a research engineer at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, focusing on the development of risk management products for electricity markets and integration of renewable and emerging resources in power system operations.
Elina received her PhD in Geography and Environmental Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2019. Her doctoral research in power system planning in fragile areas of the world was featured on the April 2019 cover of Nature Energy. Elina’s previous research was supported by an ARPA-E project, various DOE programs, and an Onassis Foundation scholarship.
She received an MSc in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins in 2016 and her Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2012.
Hard decisions are characterized by complexity, uncertainty, multiple objectives, multiple perspectives, and sensitivity of outcomes to input assumptions. In the electric sector, hard decisions range from long-term investments to the design of electricity markets and services for effective system operation. Her research team applies engineering-economic optimization models to capture key aspects of the decision context and demonstrate the effects of alternative decisions.
Before joining Imperial, Elina was a research engineer at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, focusing on the development of risk management products for electricity markets and integration of renewable and emerging resources in power system operations.
Elina received her PhD in Geography and Environmental Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2019. Her doctoral research in power system planning in fragile areas of the world was featured on the April 2019 cover of Nature Energy. Elina’s previous research was supported by an ARPA-E project, various DOE programs, and an Onassis Foundation scholarship.
She received an MSc in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins in 2016 and her Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2012.
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Leverhulme Assistant Professor in PST