Komar Javanmardi

PhD Candidate
Energy & Resources

Komar is pursuing his PhD at the Energy and Resources group of Utrecht University and the Energy and Materials Transition unit at TNO (Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research). His research focuses on integrating spatial elements into national energy system models to enhance energy infrastructure planning and support coherent policy development in the Netherlands.

He holds two master's in urban planning (University of Tehran) and an Erasmus Mundus joint master's degree in smart cities and communities (University of Heriot-Watt). For his master's thesis at TECNALIA in Spain, he developed a geospatial method for estimating the solar potential of building rooftops and integrating EV charging stations into the power distribution grid.