Nilufar Neyestani

Nilufar Neyestani is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where she joined in 2023. She is affiliated with the Integrated Energy Systems team within the Electrical Engineering Systems (EES) group, focusing on multi-energy carrier perspectives of energy systems with emerging technologies and sector coupling.

Her academic background includes:

• MSc in Electrical Engineering (Power System Studies) from Iran University of Science and Technology
• PhD completed in 2016 in Portugal

Neyestani's research focuses on the integration of multi-energy systems, examining how different energy carriers can work together to create more resilient and efficient energy networks. Her work particularly addresses the challenges of renewable energy integration, with emphasis on wind power variability mitigation and the role of sector coupling in enhancing system flexibility. She investigates market mechanisms for multi-energy systems and the operational impacts of emerging technologies like plug-in electric vehicles on power distribution networks.

Her publication record demonstrates consistent focus on energy system optimization across multiple sectors. The research shows evolution from analyzing PEV impacts on distribution networks (2018), to strategic market participation of multi-energy aggregators (2019), to wind variability mitigation using multi-energy systems (2020), indicating growing sophistication in modeling complex energy system interactions.

Neyestani has held research positions at INESC TEC in Portugal, where she was promoted to senior researcher after six months, and at VITO in Belgium as a senior researcher (2021-2023) before joining TU/e. Her work has been supported by Portuguese funding agency FCT and European Regional Development Fund through the COMPETE 2020 Programme.

She is actively involved in teaching Power System Analysis and Optimization and System Integration Project courses at TU/e and is a member of the Intelligent Energy Systems group and the Electrical Energy Systems (EIRES) research team.