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Esteban Manuel Gil Sagas

Professor

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaiso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Power system reliability; Electricity market modeling; Power systems operation; Power system planning; Renewable energy; Renewable energy integration; Operations research; Statistics; Uncertainty modeling

Educación

  •  Electrical Engineering, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2007
  •  Statistics, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2006
  •  Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2001
  •  Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2001
  •  Electrical engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 1997

Experiencia Académica

  •   Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2011 - A la fecha

  •   Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2000 - 2002

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Consultant Full Time

    McLennan Magasanik Associates

    Melbourne, Australia

    2007 - 2010

  •   Consultant Full Time

    Sinclair Knight Merz

    Melbourne, Australia

    2010 - 2011

Formación de Capital Humano


The researcher teaches one undergraduate and two graduate courses per semester. In the graduate courses, he always gives students tasks somehow related to his research. Also, he has advised or co-advised 5 undergraduate and 5 Master's students, and is currently advising 1 undergraduate and 4 Master's students more on their Thesis. Of them, all but one are working on topics directly related to his lines of research. Furthermore, the researcher hired and is currently training 3 first and second-year electrical engineering students with remarkable mathematical abilities to work as assistants on his research projects.


Difusión y Transferencia


Chilean society and the media have been quite concerned about new generation and transmission projects and the impact they may (or may not) have on the environment and in future electric energy prices. Thus, it is expected that the researcher's findings will certainly be of interest to researchers and society in general.
In the last 3 years, the researcher has been actively researching about wind and solar power integration to the Chilean interconnected systems and how to incorporate uncertainty into our operational and planning models. One of his projects was an applied research initiative with Transelec (Chile's main transmission company) under their RET (Red de Estudios de Transmisión) initiative. The project was aimed at applying stochastic programming to address hydro uncertainty on generation and transmission capacity expansion planning in the Chilean Central Interconnected system. Two other research projects dealt with integration of wind and solar energy and the impact of their uncertainty on the Chilean interconnected systems reliability. All of these projects have been conducted with their applicability to the Chilean Interconnected systems in mind, with input from Chilean electric industry, and the results have been disseminated among industry partners. The use of both Chilean interconnected power systems for modeling will make the research results suitable for dissemination in the Chilean context.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Fulbright scholarship award

    COMISION FULBRIGHT-CHILE

    Estados Unidos, 2002

    Fulbright scholarship award for PhD studies at Iowa State University

  •   ISU Alumni Association

    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2006

    Recognition for commitment to academic achievement

  •   Colegio Ingenieros de chile

    COLEGIO DE INGENIEROS DE CHILE A.G.

    Chile, 2002

    Top graduate at UTFSM

  •   Distinción académica Federico Santa María

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Chile, 2001

    Academic distinction to the Electrical Engineering top graduate

  •   ISU scholarship award

    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

    Estados Unidos, 2002

    Iowa State University tuition scholarship


 

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Proyecto (6)

1
Héctor Allende

Professor

Computer Science

UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Victor Hinojosa

Full-time Professor

Electrical Engineering

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaiso, Chile

33
Esteban Gil

Professor

Electrical Engineering

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaiso, Chile

2
Hugh Rudnick

Professor

Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Alejandro Angulo

Académico

Ingeniería Eléctrica

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaiso, Chile

3
Carlos Valle

Académico Jornada Completa

Computación e Informática

Universidad de Playa Ancha

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Jesus Cardenas

Profesor Titular

Ingeniería Eléctrica

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Erick López

Profesor Asociado

Facultad de Ciencias

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

1
YEREL MORALES

Académico Adjunto

Ingeniería Civil

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile