senior researcher
University for Continuing Education Krems - DISS
Wiener Neustadt, Austria
University for Continuing Education Krems - DISS
University for Continuing Education Krems - DISS
Academia
Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Gerald Franzl received the academic degree Dr. techn. (eq. PhD) and Dipl.-Ing. (eq. M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology (now "TU Wien"), Austria, in 2015 and 2002, respectively. 2008 he achieved certification to Junior Project Manager (IPMA Level_D), 2015 to Process Analyst (PcA), 2016 to EBC*L Certified Manager, and ISTQB® Certified Tester (foundation level), and 2017 to Digital Transfer Manager (DTM).
Since 2020 he has been employed as Senior Researcher at the Department for Integrated Sensor Systems at the University for Continuing Education Krems, contributing to the research projects cFlex, eAlloc, EnergyDec, DiPS4EV@work, and cleanBEVsharing as part of the Center for Distributed Systems and Sensor Networks. His research interests concentrate in the area of smart systems, focusing on QoS and cooperative control schemes, performance evaluation, queueing models and simulation studies.
From February 2016 till October 2019 he contributed to the project IES Austria (https://www.smartgrids.at/integrating-the-energy-system-ies.html), on establishing a cooperation scheme that fosters vendor agnostic interoperable solutions for smart energy systems and services based on jointly specified, use-case specific integration profiles. Since fall 2023 he is a core contributor to the European Collaboration Network for Interoperability Testing (https://www.eranet-smartenergysystems.eu/News/74/European-Collaboration-Network-for-Interoperability-Testing.html).
2020-2023 he was employed at TU Wien and Danube University Krems, contributing to the R&D projects SONDER and cFlex respectively, on establishing and operating regional and local energy communities. Since April 2023 he has been employed full time at the University for Continuing Education Krems (aka Danube University), where he leads the project DiPS4EV@work on smart EV charging at company premises, and also contributes to the projects eAlloc and EnergyDec. Since May 2024 he also contributes to the project cleanBEVsharing on utilising charging flexibility and V2G of shared battery electric vehicles. Upcoming is participation in a lighthouse project on REC based heat sharing, biomass value chain optimisation via seasonal CHP operation, as well as massive RES integration using EV charging and other flexibilities and tight sector coupling (incl. V2G) across rather rural municipalities to mitigate the apparent RES volatility. A CETP/MIcall 2023 project on holisitc REC support from formation to smart operation, is awaiting approval.
My organisation
Research and development of innovative concepts for high performance sensors and sensor networks is at the heart of the department, providing solutions for a widespread range of applications, such as building management, industrial automation, medicine, traffic control, environmental monitoring, and multi-media and home appliances.
The diversified, interdisciplinary expertise of the department revolves around the core topics of the four research centers and includes sensor development and manufacturing in micro- and nanotechnology, microelectronics, function-, system-, and circuit integration, communication technology, and modelling/simulation. The department combines all scientific expertise necessary for the development of sensor systems from the transducer technology up to complex system-of-systems integration aspects in a single research team.
Current research activities focus on production monitoring, building automation, smart traffic and energy systems, biomolecular diagnostics, spintronics, thermal sensors, magnetic materials and sensors, sensors for electric fields, hybrid microsystems, physical biosensors, data management and coordination from sensor networks up to cooperative systems integration (digital transition), localisation and clock synchronisation, security in sensor networks. Key tools here are analytical and numerical modelling, the use of Artificial Intelligence, and the simulation and optimisation of materials and sensor systems.
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Interests
Additional questions
I am interested in the following CETPartnership thematic areas:
Project cooperation
Develop Technical Framework on Energy System Data Spaces applying IHE/IES rules: Specify => Implement => Test core features and prototypes.
senior researcher at University for Continuing Education Krems - DISS
Wiener Neustadt, Austria