Research Interest:

• cyber-physical systems, electrical power systems
• distributed control
• sensor placement, structured controller design
• complex systems, network science
• resilience

Research Project:

Electrical power systems are a critical infrastructure and their vulnerability is mainly driven by the strong physical coupling of all components. Electrical power system failures lead to serious societal consequences.

Crisis events, such as line outages due to overloading, winter storms or cyber attacks, change the underlying physical network structure. Resilience against physical changes demands for either largely over-sized system components or an adaption of the automated control system.

The research project investigates the complementary couplings in the physical and the cyber (communication + control algorithms) domain of electrical power systems. Considered events are mainly line outages and system splits. The project aims to develop analysis and synthesis methods that enable designers to build medium scale power systems which function on their own, even after a crisis event.

Hans started his academic journey after graduating from a high school with engineering courses.

He started his studies in information systems engineering with focus on optimization and control. During his Master's degree programme, he specialized in power engineering and embedded systems design. Parallel to his M.Sc. courses, he studied philosophy and history of technology.

• since 2024: Research Associate at EINS
• 2023: M.Sc. Informationssystemtechnik (information systems engineering), TU Darmstadt