Biography:
Javier García González was born in Salamanca in 1972. He obtained the Industrial Engineer degree, specializing in Electricity, from ETSEIB, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, in 1996. That year he joined the Institute for Technological Research (IIT) of Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, to carry out his doctorate in the area of decision support models in the electricity sector. He obtained the Ph.D. in 2001 and his thesis was awarded by the Royal Academy of Doctors as the best doctoral thesis in the scientific and technological area in that year. Currently, he is Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the ICAI School of Engineering, U. Pontificia Comillas. From 2007 to 2014 he was the Director of the Master in the Electric Power Industry (MEPI), as well as Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Economics and Management of Network Industries (EMIN). From 2016 until 2022, he was Deputy Director of IIT. His research activities are developed at IIT within the group "Decision support systems for the energy sector" where he has participated in more than 70 research projects developed mainly for electricity companies and related institutions, being the principal researcher of many of them. He has supervised five doctoral theses, co-authored 6 book chapters, and more than 30 journal papers. In 2010 and 2023 he was Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 2010, he has been an MIT affiliate as a lecturer of the IAP course "Electric power system modeling for a low carbon economy". In 2012 he was Visiting Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). His areas of interest include operations, planning, and the economy of power systems.
Areas of interest:
Decision support models in the electric power industry