Dr. 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 Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), where he currently holds the position of senior scientist. He works in the research group "Power System Digitalisation" on topics related to the modeling and simulation of cyber-physical energy systems (CPESs). A special interest of his 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).