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 10 PhD students already defended under my supervision or co-supervision, 9 on-going PhD under my direction, 4 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)

Julie Perrin - Postdoc -

2 years starting 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 .

Quentin Raillard-Cazanove - Postdoc -

Since 2025

Modeling of industry decarbonation and its impact on the electric system. Funded by Institut Carnot MINES.

Owen Palmer - PhD student -

Since May 2022

Optimisation of decision making for PV+hydrogen+storage projects. CIFRE PhD funded by Verso Energy.

Maxime Vrain - PhD student -

Since October 2022

Vectors coupling in the 2050 european energy system. CIFRE PhD funded by french TSO RTE.

Thibault Goessel - PhD student -

Since November 2022

LCA of building renovation toward carbon neutrality. PhD funded by CSTB.

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.

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
  • Hedging Hydrogen- Planning and Contracting Under Uncertainty for a Green Hydrogen Producer
  • Owen Palmer, Hugo Radet, Simon Camal, Jalal Kazempour, Robin Girard
  • Integrating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment into Building Renovation Strategies
  • Goessel Thibault, Ligier Simon, Girard Robin
  • Modelling district heating networks in large-scale multi-energy simulations
  • Maxime Vrain, Virginie Dussartre, Nicolas Lhuillier, Girard Robin