
Anthony is an Associate Professor in the department of Mathematical Engineering in the Université catholique de Louvain and a member of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE). He holds the ENGIE chair and the Francqui foundation 2018-2021 research professorship. Formerly, Anthony completed his PhD and post-doctoral research at the department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley, working with Professor Shmuel Oren. He completed his undergraduate studies at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Anthony is an associate editor for Operations Research and IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He has served in the technical program committees of the Power Systems Computation Conference (2016, 2018, 2020), PowerTech (2019), the ACM Workshop on Energy Market Engineering (2018, 2019), and EnergyCon (2016). He has received the 2015 INFORMS best publication award in energy. He have served as a consultant for the Belgian Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas, N-SIDE, Quantil, Stratec, and SunRun, and as a researcher for the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Palo Alto Research Center, and the E3MLab.


Gilles is a PhD student at CORE UCL. Formerly, he received his master degree in applied mathematics in the School of Engineering of UCL. He works under the supervision of professor Anthony Papavasiliou; his research focus is on developing optimal strategies for continuous intraday market trading.


Ilyès Mezghani is a PhD student at CORE (UCLouvain). He graduated from Ensimag (France) with a specialization in Operations Research, Combinatorics and Optimization. He worked on stochastic optimization for the management of natural gas markets during his master thesis at ENGIE. Under the supervision of Anthony Papavasiliou, his research interest is devoted to the modeling and the optimization of coordinated transmission and distribution market operations in electrical power systems.


Daniel is a PhD student at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE). He received his bachelor and master’s degree from the mathematics department of Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. He works under the supervision of Professor Anthony Papavasiliou. His research interests include convex optimization, stochastic programming, renewable energy integration in power systems.


Céline is a Ph.D. student in applied mathematics at CORE. Previously, she received her master degree in Applied Mathematics from the School of Engineering of the Université catholique de Louvain. Céline is currently supervised by Professor Papavasiliou.


Quentin is a PhD student at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), UCLouvain, since September 2018. He graduated from the Louvain School of Engineering in Applied Mathematics in 2018. Currently, he is working on developing models and algorithms for analyzing Flow-Based Market Coupling, under the supervision of Anthony Papavasiliou. His interests include electricity market design, renewable energy integration in power systems, distributed optimization and stochastic programming.


Jacques Cartuyvels is a PhD candidate at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE/LIDAM) at UCLouvain, since Sepember 2019. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), UCLouvain, in 2019 with a Master in applied mathematics. He is currently working on the effect of the implementation of a scarcity pricing mechanism in Belgium. His research interest includes electricity market design, reserve pricing and dispatch, multi-interval operation under uncertainty and risk-averse equilibrium. Studies : Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium / Ph.D. candidate in Applied Mathematics Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium / Master in Applied Mathematics Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium / Bachelor in Engineering Sciences


Jehum is a PhD student at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), UCLouvain, since January 2020. Currently, he is working on developing pricing models and algorithms for Multi-Interval Real-Time markets, under the supervision of Anthony Papavasiliou. His interests include electricity market design, renewable energy integration in power systems, distributed optimization and stochastic programming. Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium / Ph.D. candidate in Applied Mathematics University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA / Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Seoul National University, Seoul, South-Korea / Bachelor in Industrial Engineering


Nicolas is a PhD student at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), UCLouvain, since November 2020, under the supervision of Anthony Papavasiliou. He graduated from the UCLouvain School of Engineering in Applied Mathematics in 2016. From 2016 to 2020, Nicolas worked at N-SIDE, as a consultant in the energy sector. In this former position, he used to work with TSOs (e.g. designing the dynamic FRR dimensioning approach for the Belgian TSO ELIA), DSOs and Market Operators (e.g. he was part of the support team of EUPHEMIA, the day-ahead market clearing algorithm in Europe) on various innovative projects. Currently, his research focuses on pricing related topics in the context of TSO/DSO coordination.

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