I am a tenured assistant professor "Energy Transition & Industry" at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of TU Delft. I am also a Research Fellow with the Energy Systems Integration & Modeling Research Group at the University of Leuven.
I hold a MSc in Energy Engineering, a MSc in Management and a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, all from KU Leuven. Between 2016 and 2022, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Energy Systems Integration & Modeling Research Group (prof. E. Delarue & W. D'haeseleer) at the Mechanical Engineering Department of KU Leuven, funded by the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) and the Flemish Institute For Technological Research (VITO), at the University of Leuven and EnergyVille.
My research focusses on the modeling of energy systems, energy policies and market design, using techniques from engineering, economics and operations research.
You can reach me at k.bruninx@tudelft.nl. My CV is available here (last update: June 2022).
News
[March '24] S. Gonzato, co-supervised with E. Delarue, obtained his PhD defense. Congratulations, Sebastian! His dissertation can be found here.
[February '24] I'm hiring a PhD candidate on "Capturing the Value of Long-Duration Underground Hydrogen Storage in Energy System Models". Apply by March 17th!
[January '24] Our paper titled "Regulatory Incentives for Transmission System Operators under Flow-Based Market Coupling" has been accepted for publication in Utilities Policy.
[November '23] M. Kenis, co-supervised with E. Delarue, obtained his PhD degree. Congratulations, Michiel! His dissertation can be found here.
[October '23] I presented our work on data-driven modeling of the European Electricity market at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
[October '23] Our paper titled "Triggering a variety of Nash-Equilibria in oligopolistic electricity markets" has been accepted for publication in Optimization & Engineering.
[October '23] I'll be serving as a board member for the EERA Joint Program on Energy Systems Integration.
[July '23] I presented our work on "The role of policies and support instruments in the development of renewable hydrogen in Europe" at the IEEE PES GM in Orlando, Florida. Slides can be found here.
[September '23] Our project proposal HyTROS has been funded under the GroenvermogenNL research program. I'll be hiring a PhD student at the end of 2023.
[September '23] M. Kenis, co-supervised with E. Delarue, passed his internal PhD defense. Congratulations, Michiel! His public PhD defense will take place on November 27.
[September '23] S. Gonzato, co-supervised with E. Delarue, passed his internal PhD defense. Congratulations, Sebastian! His public PhD defense will take place in March 2024.
[September '23] I delivered a keynote lecture on at the 2023 DISC PhD summer school. Slides can be found here.
[July '23] I presented our work on the impact of European policies on green hydrogen at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Slides can be found here.
[May '23] Our paper titled "Trading Rights to Consume Wind in Presence of Farm–Farm Interactions" has been accepted for publication in Joule.
[April '23] I was interviewed by VRT NWS for "TerZake" on the social climate fund and the emission trading systems for buildings and road transport. Watch the interview here (starts on 19'40).
[April '23] Our paper titled "Data-Driven Decision Making for Merchant Energy Storage Systems in Real-Time Balancing Markets" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation.
[April '23] I contributed to a Technical Brochure for CIGRE's Working Group C5.32 titled "Carbon Pricing in Wholesale Electricity Markets".
[April '23] Our paper titled "Off-shore bidding zones under flow-based market coupling" has been accepted for presentation at IEEE PowerTech 2023!
[March '23] Our paper titled "A comparative study of capacity market demand curve designs considering risk-averse market participants" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation.
[March'23] Our paper titled "Signaling future or historical distribution grid costs via tariffs ? A welfare analysis of long- run incremental cost pricing" has been accepted for publication in Utilities Policy.
[March '23] I'm hiring a PhD student on the topic "energy market design for a net-zero world". Application deadline: March 29!
[February '23] Our paper titled "Capturing Electricity Market Dynamics in the Optimal Trading of Strategic Agents using Neural Network Constrained Optimization" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[January '23] Our paper titled "The effect of short term storage operation on resource adequacy" has been accepted for publication in Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks.
[December '22] M. Dolanyi, co-supervised with E. Delarue and G. Deconinck, obtained his PhD degree. His thesis is titled "Facilitating Market Participation of Flexible Energy Resources via Mathematical Programming". Congratulations, Mihaly!
[December '22] Our paper titled "The effect of flow-based market coupling on cross-border exchange volumes and price convergence in Central-Western European electricity markets" has been accepted for publication in Energy Economics.