PhD position: Decision-Making for Heat Transition Planning

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• What data do municipalities, DSOs, and other stakeholders need for heat transition planning, and how do data ownership and governance arrangements shape the opportunities and barriers for data-sharing?
• How do incomplete, uncertain, or privacy-preserved data influence heat transition planning?
• How can DSOs and municipalities make robust decisions under realistic data-sharing constraints?
• How can flexibility from distributed energy resources be coordinated while respecting data-sharing requirements?
• How can decision-making methods account for varying levels of trust, transparency, and willingness to share data among stakeholders?
• What decision-making methods are most effective when information is decentralized or only partially observable?
• analysing data requirements, data availability, and socio-technical barriers to data-sharing for heat transition planning;
• investigating how incomplete or constrained data influence planning and operational decision-making;
• modelling the flexibility of heat pumps and other distributed energy resources for congestion management and heat transition planning;
• working together with interdisciplinary researchers to translate stakeholder needs and data-sharing requirements into decision-support methods;
• developing novel decision-making methods for electricity networks with flexible electrification technologies;
• evaluating and validating the proposed methods using realistic datasets and case studies with municipalities and DSOs;
• publishing your research in leading international journals and presenting your work at international conferences.