M.Sc. Julia Barbosa
Thermo-Electric Local Energy Markets
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Research Interest
- Thermo-Electric Local Energy Markets
- Energy System Design Optimization
- Game-Theory
- Complementarity Modeling
Research Project
Climate change is a major issue influencing the design of modern energy systems. These systems are marked by an escalating complexity that extends the technical solutions employed, to encompass new markets and contracting structures. To promote the energy transition and achieve a more sustainable future, it is crucial to understand how new technical solutions impact the composition and structure of contracts, as well as, energy and carbon markets.
Our research currently focuses on the creation of fundamental models for the study of complex energy systems. These models are employed to investigate the interconnections between technical constraints, markets, and contract design, with the goal of identifying market and contract designs that effectively incentivize decarbonization in energy systems.
Open theses
Supervisor: Julia Barbosa
Earliest start: immediately
Type: Bachelor Thesis
Modeling the energy system of a country as large and diverse as China presents significant challenges due to its vast geographic scale, regional disparities in energy resources, complex infrastructure, and rapidly evolving energy mix. This bachelor thesis contributes to the development of an open data model of the Chinese energy system, aiming to provide a transparent and adaptable foundation for energy system analysis. By addressing data inconsistencies, integrating multiple regional datasets, and representing the structural complexity of the system, the thesis supports efforts to build a robust model that can serve as a basis for future research and scenario analysis.
Supervisor: Julia Barbosa
Earliest start: immediately
Type: Bachelor Thesis
Game-theoretic models provide a valuable framework for analyzing strategic interactions in economics, engineering, and the social sciences. In the energy sector, they are particularly useful for studying competitive behavior in energy trading as well as attack-defense dynamics in resilience analysis. Classical examples include Cournot, Bertrand, and Stackelberg competition, which can often be formulated as part of a broader class of equilibrium problems. These formulations offer a unifying mathematical structure for analyzing existence, uniqueness, and computation of equilibria. This thesis focuses on visualizing equilibrium problems to highlight their underlying mathematical structure and solution properties. For classical competition models, the student will develop small, illustrative examples with relevance to energy systems. Special emphasis will be placed on portraying equilibrium sets, best-response mappings, and geometric interpretations of variational formulations. The goal is to provide intuitive, visual representations that may help researchers in developing new solution algorithms.
Short Bio
- Since 2020: PhD student at EINS
- 2019-2020: Construction Analyst Intern at Total Eren. São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2017-2019: Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). Darmstadt, Germany.
- 2014-2019: Diploma in Electrical Engineering at Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (EP-USP). São Paulo, Brazil.
Publications
[Conference]
Benjamin Seeger, Julia Barbosa, Florian Steinke:
*accepted* Mitigating Supplier Pricing Power in Local Thermal-Electric Energy Markets with Welfare-Driven Storage.
To appear in: 21th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Lisbon, Portugal, 2025
[Journal]
Julia Barbosa, Florian Döllinger, Florian Steinke:
Game-theoretic analysis of suppliers’ pricing power in thermal-electric local energy markets.
In: Elsevier Energy 313 , P. 133591, 2024
[Conference]
Sara Mollaeivaneghi, Julia Barbosa, Florian Steinke:
DER Pricing Power in the Presence of Multi-Location Consumers with Load Migration Capabilities.
In: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Grenoble, France, 2023
[Journal]
Jonas Hülsmann, Julia Barbosa, Florian Steinke:
Local Interpretable Explanations of Energy System Designs.
In: MDPI Energies 16 (5), P. 2161, 2023
[Journal]
Julia Barbosa, Christopher Ripp, Florian Steinke:
Accessible Modeling of the German Energy Transition: An Open, Compact, and Validated Model.
In: MDPI Energies 14 (23), P. 8084, 2021
[Conference]
Sizhang Feng, Leon Floeer, Felix Goerzel, Dennis Michael Joeckel, Julia Barbosa, Florian Steinke:
Towards Low-Carbon Multi-Energy Systems: The Hessian Energy Transition.
In: Power and Energy Student Summit (PESS 2021), virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Christopher Ripp, Julia Barbosa, Florian Steinke:
Operational Carbon Mitigation Potential of Flexible Multi-Energy Systems: A Case Study.
In: 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe 2021), virtual Conference, 2021