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Francisco David Muñoz Espinoza

Associate Professor

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Market Design; Energy Economics; Power Systems Planning and Economics; Stochastic Programming; Operations Research

Educación

  •  Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Mención Mecanica, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2007
  •  Geography and Environmental Engineering, focus on Environmental Management and Economics, JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2011
  •  Geography and Environmental Engineering, focus on Energy Economics and Operations Research, JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2014
  •  Ingeniero Civil Mecanico, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2008

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Asistente Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

    Engineering and Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Intern Other

    ENDESA, Central Rapel

    Chile

    2005 - 2005

  •   Intern Other

    SIEMENS Healthcare

    Chile

    2006 - 2006

  •   Intern Other

    SIEMENS Energy

    Chile

    2007 - 2007

  •   Research Engineer Full Time

    Energy Research Program at Universidad de Chile

    Chile

    2008 - 2008

  •   Investigador Asistente

    The Johns Hopkins University

    Estados Unidos

    2009 - 2013

  •   Investigador Visitante

    Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)

    Holanda

    2011 - 2013

  •   Investigador Postdoctoral

    Sandia National Laboratories

    Estados Unidos

    2014 - 2015

Formación de Capital Humano


1) Andrés Pérez (2014) - “The Economic Effects of Interregional Trading of Renewable Energy Certificates in the WECC”, Co- advisor, Master of Science in Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

2) Bruno Pumarino and Ignacio Salas (2016) - "Aiming low and achieving it: A long-term analysis of a renewable policy in Chile", Main advisor, Bachelors and Professional degree in Industrial Engineering, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

3) Ricardo Hunt (2016) - "Analysis of transmission switching in the Chilean electric power system", Co-advisor, Bachelors and Professional degree in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile

4) Sebastián Tobar (2017) - "Transmission and generation planning considering the effect of climate change in the Chilean hydroelectric power plants", Co-advisor, Bachelors and Professional degree in Electrical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

5) Matías Bergen (2017) - "Quantifying the effects of climate change policy uncertainties on transmission and generation investments: A case study of the Chilean power system", Co- advisor, Master of Science in Engineering, Politecnico Di Torino

8) Gabriel Díaz (2018) - "Equilibrium Analysis of a Carbon Tax with Pass-through Restrictions and Side-payment Rules", Co-advisor, Master of Science in Engineering, Universidad de Chile

7) Julio Muñoz (2018) - "Analysis of transmission interconnections in Chile considering high levels of penetration of solar power", Co-advisor, Bachelors and Professional degree in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile

8) Mauricio Fernández (2018) - "A Closed-loop Model of Imperfect Competition in Natural Gas Supply Contracts for Electric Power Generation", Main advisor, Master of Science in Engineering, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

9) Iván Zimmermann (2019) - "Analysis of international transmission interconnections considering conflicting economic incentives amount countries", Co-advisor, Bachelors and Professional degree in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile


Difusión y Transferencia


1) 2014-present - Academic Advisor for SPEC Energy Consulting in Chile. This firms develops a software for investment and operations planning in the electric power industry named AMEBA. This software is based on the Pyomo algebraic modelling language develop at Sandia National Laboratories, where I spent 2 years as a Postdoctoral Researcher. AMEBA uses advanced optimization algorithms and decomposition techniques for the solution of large-scale planning problems, taking advantage of state-of-the-art high-performance computers. With my support, this firm has been awarded 2 grants for nearly 500,000 USD to support Research and Development from the Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO).

2) 2011-present - More than 50 presentations at international research conferences, including the INFORMS Annual Meeting, the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, the International Conference on Stochastic Programming, the International Association for Energy Economics European Conference, and the Latin-Iberoamerican Conference on Operations Research.

3) 2016-present - Consultant for private companies in the electric power sector, governments, and international agencies in matters such as investment planning, hedging strategies, market design, and environmental regulation. Some of my clients include the Chilean Department of Energy, the Peruvian Department of Energy, the Inter-american Development Bank, the German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ), the Chilean Association of Renewable Energy Generators (ACERA), Mainstream Renewable Power, Acciona, Sonnedix, Valhalla, and the Energy Center at Universidad de Chile.

4) 2017 - Presentation for the Chilean Minister of Energy on new methodologies for power transmission planning under uncertainty and renewable resource policies. The proposed methodologies were developed during my PhD studies and are currently used as part of the five-year national transmission planning study in Chile. These methodologies are also being used in the US Western Electricity Coordinating Council for long-term transmission planning studies.

5) 2017- Presentation for the Chilean Minister of Energy and the National Energy Commission on the long-term effects of the current carbon tax law implemented in the Chilean electricity market. The results are part of a Masters Thesis and an academic article that is currently under review in The Energy Journal. This study involved the development of new equilibrium models and solution algorithms for the analysis of markets with administrative restrictions.

6) 2019 - A two-day tutorial on electricity market design and equilibrium modeling at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. The tutorial had nearly 70 participants from universities, private companies, and the Brazilian government.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Fulbright scholarship for doctoral studies in the US

    COMISION FULBRIGHT-CHILE

    Chile, 2009

    Fulbright scholarship for doctoral studies at The Johns Hopkins University in the US, including an ESL program at the University of Colorado at Boulder prior to the beginning of the PhD program.

  •   Best young researcher

    UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

    Chile, 2015

    Recognition for being the best young researcher among all professors that were 35 years old or younger at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences.

  •   Best your researcher

    UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

    Chile, 2017

    Recognition for being the best young researcher among all professors that were 35 years old or younger at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences.

  •   Lee and Albert H. Halff Doctoral Student Award

    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

    Estados Unidos, 2009

    Scholarship to support PhD students that excel in their fields of study


 

Article (18)

The effect of head-sensitive hydropower approximations on investments and operations in planning models for policy analysis
A Mechanism for Allocating Benefits and Costs from Transmission Interconnections under Cooperation: A Case Study of the North Sea Offshore Grid
Economic Inefficiencies of Cost-based Electricity Market Designs
Quantifying the effects of uncertain climate and environmental policies on investments and carbon emissions: A case study of Chile
Retail consumers and risk in centralized energy auctions for indexed long-term contracts in Chile
Aiming low and achieving it: A long-term analysis of a renewable policy in Chile
Does risk aversion affect transmission and generation planning? A Western North America case study
Assessing the economic value of co-optimized grid-scale energy storage investments in supporting high renewable portfolio standards
Economic Analysis of Transmission Expansion Planning With Price-Responsive Demand and Quadratic Losses by Successive LP
New bounding and decomposition approaches for MILP investment problems: Multi-area transmission and generation planning under policy constraints
The Economic Effects of Interregional Trading of Renewable Energy Certificates in the US WECC
A scalable solution framework for stochastic transmission and generation planning problems
Endogenous Assessment of the Capacity Value of Solar PV in Generation Investment Planning Studies
Optimizing Your Options: Extracting the Full Economic Value of Transmission When Planning Under Uncertainty
An engineering-economic approach to transmission planning under market and regulatory uncertainties: WECC case study
Approximations in power transmission planning: implications for the cost and performance of renewable portfolio standards
Efficient Proactive Transmission Planning to Accommodate Renewables
Comparison between computational fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction and computational structural dynamics predictions of flow-induced wall mechanics in an anatomically realistic cerebral aneurysm model

Proyecto (4)

EQUILIBRIUM MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ELECTRICITY MARKET DESIGNS FOR LOW­-CARBON AND INTERCONNECTED SYSTEMS
Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E)
Economic Analysis and Algorithms for Transmission and Generation Planning Under Hydro Uncertainty and Risk Aversion
Solar Energy Research Center
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Francisco Muñoz

Associate Professor

Engineering Sciences

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

1
Lorenzo Reus

Profesor Asociado

UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

Santiago, Chile

1
Rodrigo Moreno

Assistant Professor

Electrical Engineering

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Enzo Sauma

Profesor Titular

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Alvaro Valencia

academico jornada completa

mecanica

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE DEPTO.DE ING. MECANICA

Santiago, Chile