Gerald Franzl

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.