Ricardo Bessa Personal Website
  • About me
  • Publications
    • Journals
    • International Conferences
    • National Conferences
    • Official Reports
    • Invited Talks
    • MSc and PhD Thesis
    • Book Chapters
  • Research Interests
    • Use of Wind Power Forecasts
    • Aggregator of Electric Vehicles
    • Smart Grids
  • Links
  • Contact

Ricardo Bessa, INESC TEC, Portugal

Picture
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

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.