Sonja WogrinView profile
Associate Professor
Sonja Wogrin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Organization at the Higher Technical School of Engineering, Pontifical University of Comillas. She holds a Ph.D. in Electricity Markets from the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) at the same university and has been a researcher there since 2009. Her work focuses on decision support systems for energy systems, optimization techniques, and generation capacity expansion planning. Education: B.Sc. in Technical Mathematics (Graz University), M.Sc. in Computation for Design and Optimization (MIT), Ph.D. in Electricity Markets (IIT-Comillas) Affiliations: Researcher at IIT-Comillas, Associate Professor in Industrial Organization Her research interests include energy systems modeling , optimization (particularly bilevel programming ), and electricity storage . She has developed open-source tools like the LEGO model for low-carbon expansion and analyzed market feedback in transmission planning. Her work addresses technical constraints in generation commitment, inertia in low-carbon grids, and policy implications of renewable integration. Recent article trends show a focus on gas pipeline MILP modeling , thermal demand simulations , and convex optimization in imperfect markets . She emphasizes stochasticity , multi-objective frameworks , and GIS-based siting for renewables. Scientific awards include the Iberdrola Spain Research Grant , 4th EASE Student Award (Belgium), and multiple mobility grants from Erasmus and NILS. As an advisor, she has supervised four Ph.D. theses on transmission planning , European gas markets , and co-optimized storage . Her grants include EU-funded projects like STEXEM and hydrogen roadmap development for Colombia with the IDB. She collaborates with institutions such as MIT, Johns Hopkins, and NTNU through research stays and contributes to IEEE Transactions , Applied Energy , and European Journal of Operational Research as a reviewer.








