Energy-systems modelling for climate action: decarbonization and net-zero pathways; renewable integration with flexibility/storage; green H2 & PtX incl. certification; resilience and just transition metrics to inform public policy.

Human capital training is a core part of my work for addressing climate change. I have co-organized and delivered three editions of a summer school on 100% renewable energy systems in collaboration with the University of Zagreb, training participants in energy planning, renewable integration, and decarbonization pathways aligned with net-zero targets. In addition, I have led three workshops at PUCV focused on the energy transition, climate change mitigation, and just transition, strengthening capacities of students, researchers, and practitioners to translate climate objectives into robust, socially grounded energy strategies. I am also the chair of the Ph.D. program in industrial engineering at PUCV Chile. I have also participated as lecturer at international institutions including the Politecnico di Milano on Energy Planning and Sustainability tools (16 hrs), at the Universidad de Salamanca on Energy-Water-Food and Health impacts (45 hrs), and on Geopolitics of Global Energy at Universidad Austral - Argentina (20 hrs).

I was also the chair and main organizer of the 4th LA SDEWES conference, held in Viña del Mar, Chile, during January 2026. The international conference put together over 100 researcher from all continents over a 3 day conference.

Direct human capital training
1) 100% RES Summer school: 60+ students from all over the world in three editions

2) 4 Ph.D. graduates: Supervised, to date, 3 Ph.D. students in the area of energy planning and sustainability and integrated assessment modeling (energy-water-land-environment-health).
- Dra. Andrea Arriet (2021): Water Management policies for the Energy Sector in North America.
- Dra. Yolanda Matamala (2023), Optimizing Microgrid Operations through Stackelberg models and Flexibility Options: A Strategic Approach to Sustainable Energy Management.
- Dr. Francisco Flores (2025)
- Dr. Guillermo Droppelmann (2025), Patrones Ultrasonográficos en Tendinopatías De Codo Mediante Métodos De Machine Learning (co-supervisor)

3) Supervision of 10+ Master Students in the topics of energy planning and sustainability and complex systems modeling (energy, water, land, environment, health).
- Ms. Francisca Licandeo: Evaluación de políticas de restricción de emisiones en el nexo energía-alimentos-agua, bajo escenarios de escasez hídrica (Profesor guía)
- Mr. Juan Pablo Saavedra: Modelo de redes neuronales convolucionales para la clasificación de infiltración grasa en músculo supraespinoso usando imágenes de resonancia magnética de hombro
- Mr. Nicolás Lazcano: Evaluación de modelos híbridos de machine y deep learning para predecir celdas fotovoltaicas defectuosas en paneles solares
- Mr. Nicolás Bustos: Longitudinal analysis of clinical trial data: risk factors associated with success rates and length of trial
- Mr. Brian Vidal: Estimación del consumo energético en transporte público utilizando datos desagregados: El caso de Santiago de Chile
- Mr. Sebastián González: Aplicación de un modelo de ruteo de vehículos eléctricos e instalación de centros de carga de baterías con precio de electricidad variable en el tiempo.
- Mr. Manuel Tello: Métodos de Machine Learning para el reconocimiento de patrones y análisis de imágenes
- Mr. Tomás del Pino: Métodos de Machine Learning para el reconocimiento de patrones y análisis de imágenes en lesiones de rotula
- Mr. Francisco Solis: Visual Encoding para detección de lesiones músculo esqueléticas
- Mr. Alfonso Lira: Long term energy planning on national energy systems with just transition considerations.
- Ms. Luz Cespedes: Solar energy prediction based on CNN and visual encodings.

4) Supervision of Undergraduate Students in the topics of energy planning and sustainability and complex systems modeling (energy, water, land, environment, health).
- Giancarlo Arriagada Tessini (2019).
- Milka Radovic López (2019).
- Sebastián Toledo Cárcamo (2019).
- Diego Altamirano Montero (2021).
- Marcelo Ayala Palominos (2021).
- Daniela Márquez Hoecker (2021).
- Francisca Brito Saavedra (2021).
- Francisca Díaz Astudillo (2021).
- Andrés Montenegro Peredo (2021).
- Vanessa Alejandra Brito Montoya (2023).
- Miguel Ignacio Castillo Araya (2023).
- Claudia Catalina Vera Garrido (2023).
- Maite Sofía Albornoz Vega (2023).
- Felipe Campos Rojas (2023).
- José Francisco Javier Cisternas Tubino (2023).

5) Co-Supervision of Undergraduate, Master, and, Ph.D international Students in the topics of energy planning and sustainability and complex systems modeling (energy, water, land, environment, health).
- Dr. Abhishake Kundu (2017-2021), Texas Tech University
- Dr. Sriram Sankaranarayanan (2016), Johns Hopkins University
- Ms. Larisa Sakiyama (2016-2017), Johns Hopkins University
- Dr. Vignesh Subramanian (2014-2015), University of South Florida
- Dr.Alireza Ghalebani (2013-2014), University of South Florida.
- Mr. Daniel Kamsler (2013), University of South Florida

6) Committee member of national and international Ph.D. students:
- Committee member – Examen de grado doctorado, Dr. Juan Carlos Piña, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2022)
- Committee member – Examen de candidatura doctoral, Dr. Mauricio Huerta Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2022)
- Committee member – Examen de candidatura doctoral, Dr. Fredy Barriga Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2022)
- Committee member – Examen de candidatura doctoral, Dr(c) Luka Herc, University of Zagreb (2022)
- Committee member – Examen de grado doctoral, Dr. Antun Pfeifer, University of Zagreb (2023)
- Committee member – Examen de grado doctoral, Dr. Matija Pavicevic, KU Luvain (2023)

1) My dissemination and knowledge transfer activities connect research with policy and practice on climate change mitigation and resilient energy transitions. I serve as a member of the International Scientific Committee of SDEWES and Co-Chair for SDEWES Americas, helping shape agendas and regional collaboration. I also contribute as editor for journals including Energy, JSDEWES, Energy Sources Part B, and E-Prime, and I am an IPCC AR7 WGIII Lead Author for Chapter 9: Energy Systems. At the national level, I serve on ANID’s Grupo de Estudio 2, supporting research evaluation and strategic priorities.

In terms of international transfer, I have participated in internationally funded projects, including two APEC projects and one project with the U.S. Department of Energy, bridging research and implementation. I have also supported Chile’s Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Environment through technical inputs to several reports, including assessments on the impacts of electromobility, the role of Chile as a renewable energy exporter, and work aligned with Net Zero World. In addition, I contributed to a report on the energy–water–food nexus for Chile’s Scientific Committee on Climate Change (C4), providing integrated evidence to inform coordinated climate policy and long-term planning.

I have also participated as Key Note Speaker at the 1st African Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environmental Systems (Marocco, 2025) and in several panels on the topic of renewable energy and integrated assessment models (20th SDEWES 2025, 5th LA SDEWES 2026).

I was also the chair and main organizer of the 4th LA SDEWES conference, held in Viña del Mar, Chile, during January 2026.

Finally, I have started a series or international workshops on Climate Change and Energy Planning. During 2025 we had the third version of this international workshop with researchers from Europe, US, and Chile, including representatives of the ministry of energy of Chile.

2) List of main presentation at international conferences:
- 4th LA SDEWES Conference , Energy investment needs for large levels of electrification of demand sectors and H2/e-fuel export scenarios: The case of Chile.
- 4th LA SDEWES Conference , Nash Bargaining game for cooperative and operational decisions for microgrids with hydrogen integration flexibility options.
- 4th LA SDEWES Conference , Modelling the Material Flows in Long-term Energy Systems Configuration Optimization Approach.
- 4th LA SDEWES Conference , Modelling the Power flow bottlenecks: The assessment of the two pathways of achieving renewable energy system with regards to transmission line expansion
- 4th LA SDEWES Conference , The cooperation game: The role of cross-border trade for alternative decarbonization pathways.
- INFORMS, Phoenix, Estados Unidos, Reaching a Deep-Decarbonization Energy System Under CO2 Sequestration Uncertainty
- INFORMS, Phoenix, Estados Unidos, Assessing the Impacts of High Renewable Potential when Considering Cross-Border Trade in the Energy Transition in Latin America
- INFORMS, Phoenix, Estados Unidos, Nash Bargaining Game for Cooperative and Operational Decisions for Microgrids with Hydrogen Integration Flexibility Options
- INFORMS, Indianapolis, Estados Unidos, A Multinational Carbon-Credit Market Integrating Distinct National Carbon Allowance Strategies
- INFORMS, Indianapolis, Estados Unidos, Routing and charging facility location for EVs under nodal pricing of electricity: A bilevel model solved using special ordered set
- INFORMS, Indianapolis, Estados Unidos, Stackelberg Model for Microgrids Operation with Power-to-x Technologies
- INFORMS, Indianapolis, Estados Unidos, Multi-stage Stochastic Problem for the Natural Gas Market Considering Water Taxation Strategies and Renewables Uncertainty
- SDEWES 2023, Dubrovnik, Croacia, Optimal decarbonisation pathway for the Italian energy system: modelling a long-term energy transition to achieve zero emission by 2050
- SDEWES 2023, Dubrovnik, Croacia, Tradeoffs between economy wide future net zero and net negative economy systems: The case of Chile
- SDEWES 2023, Dubrovnik, Croacia, Feedbacks from Energy Variability into an Integrated Assessment Model
- SDEWES 2023, Dubrovnik, Croacia, Influence of demand-side flexibility in electricity demand sectors on deployment of flexibility options - a long-term energy systems' modelling perspective
- SDEWES 2023, Dubrovnik, Croacia, Nash Bargaining game for cooperative and operational decisions for microgrids with hydrogen flexibility option
- SDEWES 2023, Dubrovnik, Croacia, An opportunity in energy transition planning considering cross-border trade in Latin America
- SDEWES 2022, Paphos, Chipre, Analyzing the Impact of Demand Response and Reserves in Islands Energy Planning
- SDEWES 2022, Paphos, Chipre, Long Term Energy System Decarbonization under water-food nexus considerations with the H2RES Model.
- SDEWES 2022, Paphos, Chipre, The Role of Alternative Fuels in Transport Sector and Industry Sector, Examination in H2RES Energy Model
- SDEWES 2022, Paphos, Chipre, The Management of an Energy System in the Realm of Energy Crisis and Strategies to Mitigate the Influence of Crisis, Examination in H2RES Energy Model
- SDEWES 2021, Dubrovnik, Croacia, An MIP Model with Endogenous Capacity Investment for Energy Transition Pathways - Interrelation Between Power-to-X, demand Response and Market Coupling
- SDEWES 2021, Dubrovnik, Croacia, Long-Term pathways for Carbon-Neutrality from Chile: Variability in absorption CO2
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC., Water Taxation Strategies In The Natural Gas Fracking Sector: A Stochastic MCP Approach.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC., Carbon Budget Constraints For Reaching Climate Targets And NDC: The Case Of The Chilean Energy Sector.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., Energy Transitions for Reaching Climate Targets: the Case of 1.5C Energy-water-food Nexus in Latin America.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., GCAM-LAC: The Role of Natural Gas in South America Under Climate Change Constraints.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., A Bilevel Conic Optimization Model For Routing and Charging of Electric Vehicles.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., A two stage stochastic programming for natural gas production planning under change and conic constraints
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., The Future of Natural Gas Infrastructure in North America. Sauleh Ahmad Siddiqui, Charalampos Avraam, Felipe A. Feijoo, Gokul Iyer.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., High Accuracy in Ultrasonographics Patterns Detection Over 30.000 Images in Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy with Artificial Intelligence.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., The Waiting Game - How Public And Private Hospitals Should Work Together To Reduce Waiting Lists.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., When Nash Meets Stackelberg.
- International Symposium on Forecasting, Application of a SVM-based model for day-ahead electricity price prediction for the single electricity market in Ireland
- Valparaíso, Chile., Mixed complementarity problems (MCP) for natural gas markets: Infrastructure development under domestic and international socio-economic conditions
- Valparaíso, Chile., Climate and carbon budget implication of linked future changes CO2 and non-CO2 forcing.
- Valparaíso, Chile., Prediction Modelling of risk in Oncology Clinical Trials: On enlightening patients about chances of Adverse Events
- AGU Fall Annual Meeting, Washington DC., The Future of Natural Gas Infrastructure Development in the United States.
- AGU Fall Annual Meeting, Washington DC., Overshoot and Non-Overshoot Pathways to 1.5C and above: The temperature Tunnel
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ., The Future of Natural Gas Infrastructure Development in the United States.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ., The Economic Impact of Price Controls on Chinas Natural Gas Supply Chain.
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ., A Framework for Calibrating Transportation Models: A Spatial Price Equilibrium Based Method.
- AGU Fall Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana., Overshoot and Non-Overshoot Pathways to 1.5C and above: The temperature Tunnel.
- INFORMS Annual meeting, Houston, Texas., Scenarios with and Without Overshoot for End of Century Climate Goals.
- INFORMS Annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana., Overshoot and Non-Overshoot Pathways to 1.5C and Above: The Temperature Tunnel.
- INFORMS Annual meeting,Nashville, North America Natural Gas Model: Impacts of Market deregulation in Mexico.
- INFORMS Annual meeting, Nashville, Tennessee., Predicting Likelihood Of Drug Approval From Clinical Trials
- INFORMS Annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., A bilevel optimization model for health information exchange policy design
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington DC, A natural gas model for North America: Impact of cross-border trade of natural gas wit Mexico
- NASA - International workshop on environment and Alternative Energy, Kennedy Space Center NASA., Impact of microgrids on smart grids under carbon emissions control.
- INFORMS, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Pareto optimal designs for CO? Cap and trade policies on deregulated electricity networks
- Power up Energy Expo, Developing Design Guidelines for CO2 Cap-and-Trade Policies for Deregulated Electricity Networks
- INFORMS Annual meeting,Phoenix, Arizona., Developing design guidelines for CO2 cap and trade policies for deregulated electricity networks.
- FESC, Florida Energy Sistems Consortium, Influence of CO? Cap and Trade Policy Parameters on Deregulated Electricity Networks
- INFORMS, Annual meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, Generation Expansion Planning with a Real Options Approach Under Cap and Trade Regulation And Stochastic Fuel Price Variations

3) Participation in media
- UCV televisión: interview about climate change and energy transition
- Newspapers (Últimas Noticias, Diario de Atacama, otros): Creación de métodos basados en ML para detección de COVID
- Entrevista digital FIN PUCV - Proyecto Net Zero Word.