Ricardo Bessa, INESC TEC, Portugal
I worked as a Junior Researcher, a Project Grantee (2006-2009) and an FCT Ph.D. Grantee (2009-2013) at INESC TEC on several international and national projects about wind power forecasting and its integration into power system operations. My early career’s flagship projects are the EU ANEMOS.plus, where I developed control room software tools for transmission grids, and ARGUS, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, where I developed novel approaches for wind power forecasting and decision-aid tools in collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory. At the national level, in the EPREV project, I developed statistical models for wind power forecasting, later co-founding the start-up company Prewind.
After earning a Ph.D. in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Porto (MIT Portugal) in 2013, I became a Senior Researcher at INESC TEC, coordinating the Energy Analytics and Forecasting Area and a multidisciplinary team. Five years later, I am Coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems since 2018, and I manage a strong team of over 100 researchers internationally recognised for their expertise in power systems planning and operation, electricity markets, and smart grids and have supported the development of six research areas led by dedicated and permanently contracted post-doc, fostering scientific excellence via Q1 publications (with Scops h-index of 40) and transfer of knowledge to the industry.
I have actively participated in several EU projects, e.g., SuSTAINABLE, evolvDSO, HYPERBOLE, InterConnect. I was the technical coordinator of the InterGrid project and coordinated the team tasked to develop new forecasting and decision-aid systems for power systems under the Smart4RES project.
I have also served on several committees and panels, taking on different roles, from Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy to Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. I was invited to be the Secretary of the IEEE Working Group on Energy Forecasting and Analytics (2002-), vice-chair of the IEEE Task Force on Data Sharing in Energy Systems (2022-), and Secretary of CIGRE WG2.42 (2022-2024) about using AI in power networks operations and control.
Curriculum Vitae
After earning a Ph.D. in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Porto (MIT Portugal) in 2013, I became a Senior Researcher at INESC TEC, coordinating the Energy Analytics and Forecasting Area and a multidisciplinary team. Five years later, I am Coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems since 2018, and I manage a strong team of over 100 researchers internationally recognised for their expertise in power systems planning and operation, electricity markets, and smart grids and have supported the development of six research areas led by dedicated and permanently contracted post-doc, fostering scientific excellence via Q1 publications (with Scops h-index of 40) and transfer of knowledge to the industry.
I have actively participated in several EU projects, e.g., SuSTAINABLE, evolvDSO, HYPERBOLE, InterConnect. I was the technical coordinator of the InterGrid project and coordinated the team tasked to develop new forecasting and decision-aid systems for power systems under the Smart4RES project.
I have also served on several committees and panels, taking on different roles, from Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy to Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. I was invited to be the Secretary of the IEEE Working Group on Energy Forecasting and Analytics (2002-), vice-chair of the IEEE Task Force on Data Sharing in Energy Systems (2022-), and Secretary of CIGRE WG2.42 (2022-2024) about using AI in power networks operations and control.
Curriculum Vitae