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Carlos Cruz de la Torre is a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Electrónica at the Universidad de Alcalá. He earned his PhD with a thesis on cooperative demand planning in sustainable communities optimizing renewable energy consumption, supervised by Dr. Ignacio Bravo Muñoz and Dr. Esther Palomar González. His work spans interdisciplinary domains including energy communities, IoT sensing, renewable energy integration, and digital electronics education, with contributions to sensor design and sustainable engineering practices.
Research Interests: His research focuses on
- Aggregated demand response systems and multi-objective optimization in energy communities
- Development of IoT-based sensors and triboelectric nanogenerators for energy harvesting
- Integration of sustainability principles into digital electronics education
- Behavioral analysis of consumer participation in renewable energy systems
- Signal conditioning circuits for optical and seismic sensors
- Physics applications in CCD sensor technology and particle scattering
Publications highlight his expertise in robotics, sensor design, and energy-efficient communities, with recent work exploring trilevel optimization models and flexible nanogenerators. Earlier contributions include studies on particle physics and CCD readout techniques.
Labs & Teams: He collaborates with the GEINTRA (Group of Electronic Engineering Applied to Intelligent Spaces and Transport) research group, focusing on intelligent transportation and energy-efficient systems.
