Biography:
Manuel Perez joined IIT in September 2020, where he works as a Research Assistant in the areas of transport modelling, energy systems and energy economics.
He combines the work at IIT with his PhD thesis, which focuses on future mobility trends and the design and evaluation of policies for a sustainable energy transition. Before joining IIT, he obtained both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering at the University of Seville (Spain), within an international double degree program with the École Centrale de Lyon (France), from which he also obtained the French General Engineering degree.
Areas of interest:
Transport modelling, energy systems and energy economics.
Experience:
His previous professional experience in the transport sector includes an internship within the maintenance team of high-speed railway lines in Lyon (2017), and two consecutive R+D internships (2018, 2019) at the State Key Laboratory (Chengdu, China), where he worked in the project of the Superconductor Magnetic Levitation Train (HTS MagLev).
Herding, L., Pérez-Bravo, M., Barrella, R., Cossent, R., Rivier, M., Large-scale estimation of electricity distribution grid reinforcement requirements for the energy transition – A 2030 Spanish case study. Energy Reports. Vol. 12, pp. 5432 - 5444, December 2024. [Online: November 2024] 
JCR: 4,700 Q2 (2023) - SJR: 1,072 Q2 (2023) 
Rodríguez Matas, A.F., Linares, P., Pérez-Bravo, M., Romero, J.C., Improving robustness in strategic energy planning: a novel decision support method to deal with epistemic uncertainties. Energy. Vol. 292, pp. 130463-1 - 130463-12, April 2024. [Online: January 2024]
JCR: 9,000 Q1 (2023) - SJR: 2,110 Q1 (2023) 
