Edmund Widl

Edmund Widl received an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 2004 and 2008 respectively. From 2003 to 2011 he worked for the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY), Vienna, Austria, on several projects for the CMS Collaboration, one of the particle physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. In 2011 he joined the Complex Energy Systems group of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), where he works on topics related to the modeling and simulation of cyber-physical energy systems (CPES). A special interest in this context is the analysis and design of multi-domain energy systems, such as hybrid thermal-electrical distribution grids. A substantial part of his work is dedicated to the development of new tools for simulation-based black-box optimization and co-simulation, focusing on methods and tools that are compliant to the Functional Mock-up Interface specification. Apart from work directly related to applications and tool development he is also actively promoting the topic of CPES, for instance as co-organizer of CPSWeek 2016 and publication chair of the MSCPES workshop series (since 2014).