Content :

- Actual position and responsabilities
- Current students
- Available positions (Funded PhD, Postdoc, internship)
- Publications


Positions and responsabilities

Full Professor (Directeur de Recherche) at MINES Paris PSL

since 2023

Energy and processes department PERSEE Center: Center for Processes, Renewables Energies and Energy Systems ERSEI group 12 PhD students already defended under my supervision or co-supervision, 7 on-going PhD under my direction, 2 ongoing postdocs under my direction (see below ).

Research topics - Net zero transition modeling.

  • Energy demand modeling - Temporal and spatial demand modeling, building retrofits at the territory scale, evolution of heating, low carbon industry, role of hydrogen.
  • Planing and operation of multi-energy systems - Electric network planing (transport/distribution), hydrogen production systems planing, multi-energy systems.
  • Integration of Renewables - Short terme forecasting of renewable production, price and demand. Land use and energy. Optimal mix of flexibility.
  • Energy markets - Market price dynamic modeling. Regulation and actor modeling.

Teaching activities

Current students (Postdoc and PhD students)

Olena Pechak - Postdoc -

18 months - Since January 2025

E-fuel developpement in the EU. Postdoc funded by CARNOT .

Julie Perrin - Postdoc -

Since February 2023

Joined coordination with Daniel Florentin. From political targets to deployment of thermal retrofit, identification of institutional limits to thermal retrofits. Postdoc funded by TTI.5 .

Laurent Cornaggia - PhD student -

Since January 2023

Optimisation of medium voltage DC connection architechtures. CIFRE PhD funded by french TSO RTE.

Thibaut Knibiehly - PhD student -

Since June 2023

Planning of multi-energy system. PhD funded by the PlaneTerr project, in collaboration with several french energy system compagnies.

Hugo Hamburger - PhD student -

Since September 2023

Coupling optimisation methodology for energy system planning. PhD funded by the PlaneTerr project, in collaboration with several french energy system compagnies.

Yoann Chiche - PhD student -

Since September 2024

Coupling of Smart Grids Between Transmission and Distribution Networks

Maria Berchiche - PhD student -

Since November 2024

Integrating CO2 resources into territorial energy planning.

Sarah Lagrancourd - PhD student -

Since October 2025

Optimisation of decarbonisation trajectory for a group of buildings - PhD funded by CSTB and ADEME.

Clara Lemaitre - PhD student -

Since December 2025

Methodology for modelling and calibrating electrical load curves for multi-scale building stock for the evaluation of renovation and flexibility scenarios. CIFRE PhD funded by french TSO RTE and CSTB.

Available or upcomming positions.

Postdoc, PhD, Internship.

See the full list here. , but feel free to apply continuously

Publications

You can access my full list of already published papers here, or visit my google scholar, or my scopus.

Some of our upcomming papers (submitted or in preparation) are listed below:

  • Optimal operational planning of hybrid power plants in railway MVDC networks and comparison with standard AC connections
  • Laurent Cornaggia, Robin Girard, Olivier Despouys, Helene Clemot, Panagiotis Andrianesis
  • A scalable activity-based and physics-informed bottom-up model for residential electricity demand using open data
  • Yoann Chiche, Yassine Abdelouadoud, Anna Cocchi, Robin Girard
  • Resilience analysis for energy foresight scenarios - addressing the deep uncertainties of hydrogen deployment in industrial hubs.
  • Anaëlle Jodry, Quentin RAILLARD--CAZANOVE, Thibaut KNIBIEHLY, Pedro AFFONSO NÓBREGA, Robin Girard
  • An integrated model coupling framework for adequacy-constrained planning of energy systems - A case study of the European power system towards 2050
  • Hugo Hamburger, Thomas Heggarty, Panagiotis Andrianesis, Robin Girard