On 2 October 2025, our colleague Leoni Winschermann successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Energy Flows - An algorithmic scheduling approach to electric vehicle charging".
Supervised by Johann Hurink and Gerwin Hoogsteen, her research presented in the thesis starts with the real-world need for energy management systems for large-scale electric vehicle parking lots and goes on to develop algorithmic theory and tools for such systems. These tools allow energy management systems to operate efficiently, therefore facilitating the transition to electric mobility and its integration with local renewable generation and building baseloads. Next to optimizing vehicle charging from a parking lot perspective, a case is made for consciously choosing an optimal solution such that (without infringing optimality from a parking lot perspective) quality of service for and fairness among the individual vehicle owners improves.
Congrats, Dr. Leoni, and all the best for what's next!
(Picture taken by Mehrdad Aslani)
