Jalal Kazempour

Phone: +45 26359955

Technical University of Denmark, Elektrovej, Building 325, room 142, Kgs. Lyngby 2800, Denmark

Hi and welcome!

I am a Full Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in the Department of Wind and Energy Systems (DTU Wind), where I lead the Energy Markets and Analytics (EMA) section, comprising over 10 researchers. I also serve as the Head of Studies for DTU’s MSc program in Sustainable Energy Systems, one of the university’s flagship programs.

I am the founder and co-organizer of the annual DTU PES (Power and Energy Systems) Summer School, which brings together PhD students and scholars from academia and industry worldwide. In addition, I serve as an Associate Editor for Operations Research and as a member of ACER’s Expert Group on the EU-wide Flexibility Needs Assessment. I am also a Senior Member of both IEEE and INFORMS.

My research focuses on market-oriented, data-driven approaches to the operation of modern power systems with a high share of renewable energy, in coordination with other sectors such as hydrogen, natural gas, and district heating. It lies at the intersection of optimization, game theory, control, and machine learning applied to energy systems.

The overarching goal is to advance market design, grid services, and coordination mechanisms that enhance the efficiency of integrated energy systems. These innovations aim to go beyond current practices, improving system performance and enabling stakeholders to make better-informed business, trading, and operational decisions by leveraging large-scale data.

Further details can be found in my CV.

News

June 30, 2025: Funding granted! Our project “Data Unlocked: Privacy Preservation, Public Sharing, and Added Value Creation” has been awarded funding by EUDP. The total grant amounts to 9.5 million DKK (approximately 1.27 million EUR), with 61% allocated to the EMA section. We are excited to collaborate with our industrial partners: Energinet, NeoGrid, Enfor, Green Power Denmark, Watts, PowerLab DK, and Radius. Looking forward to embarking on this important project!
June 30, 2025: Funding granted! Our Industrial PhD project with Energinet has been awarded funding by Innovation Fund Denmark. Under the project titled “Dynamic and Multi-Area Reserve Dimensioning for Balancing of the Electricity Grid”, Valdemar Søgaard will pursue his PhD, supervised by Lesia Mitridati (DTU), Thomas Dalgas (Energinet), Anders Runge Walther (Energinet), and myself.
June 30, 2025: Elevated to senior member of INFORMS.
May 19-23, 2025: The 8th edition of the DTU PES Summer School took place. You can read more in my LinkedIn post [ here ]. Video recordings are publicly available [ here ].
May 8, 2025: Video recordings of all my lectures for the MSc course "Renewables in Electricity Markets" are now publicly available [ here ].
May 8, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Betting vs. trading: Learning a linear decision policy for selling wind power and hydrogen" by Yannick Heiser, Farzaneh Pourahmadi, and JK has been accepted for presentation at the 12th Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control Symposium (IREP 2025). See you in Sorrento, Italy this June! [ arXiv | GitHub ]
May 8, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Day-ahead bidding strategies for wind farm operators under a one-price balancing scheme" by Max Bruninx, Timothy Verstraeten, JK, and Jan Helsen has been accepted for presentation at the ACM e-Energy 2025, The 6th International Workshop on Energy Data and Analytics (EDA). See you in Rotterdam, Netherlands this June! [ arXiv ]
April 9, 2025: Delivered an invited talk on "Data-driven optimization with contextual information for selling wind power and hydrogen" at the NTNU/NHH Winter School 2025 in Kvitfjell, Norway [ slides ].
April 8, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Learning prosumer behavior in energy communities: Integrating bilevel programming and online learning" by Bennevis Crowley, JK, Lesia Mitridati, and Mahnoosh Alizadeh has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].
April 5, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Aggregator of electric vehicles bidding in Nordic FCR-D markets: A chance-constrained program" by Gustav Lunde, Emil Damm, Peter A. V. Gade, and JK has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [ link | arXiv | GitHub | video ].
April 2, 2025: Accepted! Our paper "Contracting strategies for electrolyzers to secure grid connection: The Dutch case" by Thomas Swarts, JK, Wouter van den Akker, Johan Morren, Arjan van Voorden, Han Slootweg has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE PowerTech Conference 2025. See you in Kiel, Germany in June! [ arXiv ]
March 24, 2025: Joined the Expert Group on "EU-wide Flexibility Needs Assessment" at the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) [link].
February 10, 2025: Two PhD positions are now open for application at the EMA section:

Smart Grid Optimization: Privacy-Preserving Models for Active Load Coordination [link], Deadline: March 14, 2025
Enhancing Cyber-Physical Resilience in Power Systems [link], Deadline: March 21, 2025