Energy Systems

I am an applied economist and mathematician, trying to answer economic questions about engineering systems (energy and transportation) using mathematical tools, such as optimisation and complementarity modelling. See my full profile on: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/avander

• PhD Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• MSc Economics, University of Edinburgh
• BA(Hons), Liberal Arts & Sciences, University College Roosevelt

• Associate Researcher, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge
• Member, Energy Institute (MEI)

• Course Organiser and lecturer, Energy & Environmental Economics, MSc Sustainable Energy Systems
• Course Organiser and lecturer, Modern Economic Issues in Industry 5/MSc, Engineering MEng/MSc programmes
• Lecturer, Engineering Mathematics 2B, undergraduate Engineering programmes
• Guest lecturer, Energy & Climate, Online MSc Carbon Management (School of Geosciences)
• Personal Tutor

• Modelling electricity and transport networks and markets
• Optimisation and equilibrium modelling
• Energy and transport economics
• Industrial organisation / applied microeconomics
• Environmental economics

Maja Persson is a first year PhD student focusing on Hydrogen Energy Systems for local energy storage and services . An industrial PhD with Bright Green Hydrogen working with Dr Dimitri Mignard (academic) and David Hogg (industrial) as her main supervisors. The immediate objective of the project is to create a blueprint for a low/zero carbon business park, using information from The Hydrogen Office, a demostration of  hydrogen energy storage for intermittent renewables and research hub.

Maja Persson has a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems, where her thesis focused on carrying out a feasibility study of an idea for a Self-Embedding and Self-Removing Sand Anchor for Wave Enery Converters.

Before starting her PhD, Maja Persson spent two and a half years at a Fortune 500 company, working in two of their locations, Leiden (Netherlands) and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK). Her time in industry lead to experience in procurement, operations leadership, Lean/Six Sigma, solvent safety and energy monitoring systems in manufacturing.

Key interests outside of work are skiing, running, hiking and painting

If interested in finding out more about Maja Persson's progress on her PhD, please send an email.

BEng (Hons) - Mechanical Engineering

MSc - Sustainable Energy Systems

Associate Member at Institute of Mechanical Engineers