Ricardo Bessa, INESC TEC, Portugal
Ricardo Bessa was born in 1983 in Viseu, received his Licenciado (five-year) degree from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal (FEUP) in 2006 in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2008, he received the M.Sc. degree in Data Analysis and Decision Support Systems on the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Energy Systems (MIT Portugal) at FEUP in 2013. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Center for Power and Energy Systems at at INESC TEC.
In the areas of renewable energy integration, smart grids and digital energy systems he worked in several international projects such as the European Projects FP6 ANEMOS.plus (2008-2011), FP7 SuSTAINABLE (2013-2015), FP7 evolvDSO (2013-2016), Horizon 2020 SENSIBLE (2015-2018), UPGRID (2015-2017) and InteGrid (technical coordinator, 2017-2020), and in an international collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory (2009-2012). He is co-author of 50 journal papers, 97 conference papers and 6 book chapters about renewable energy forecasting, decision-making under uncertainty and innovative digital solutions (mainly data-driven methods) for smart grids.
He is a co-founder of a spin-off company called Prewind, which sells forecasting services for wind power producers.
Curriculum Vitae
In the areas of renewable energy integration, smart grids and digital energy systems he worked in several international projects such as the European Projects FP6 ANEMOS.plus (2008-2011), FP7 SuSTAINABLE (2013-2015), FP7 evolvDSO (2013-2016), Horizon 2020 SENSIBLE (2015-2018), UPGRID (2015-2017) and InteGrid (technical coordinator, 2017-2020), and in an international collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory (2009-2012). He is co-author of 50 journal papers, 97 conference papers and 6 book chapters about renewable energy forecasting, decision-making under uncertainty and innovative digital solutions (mainly data-driven methods) for smart grids.
He is a co-founder of a spin-off company called Prewind, which sells forecasting services for wind power producers.
Curriculum Vitae