Dr. Kristen Schell

Biography

Professor Kristen Schell joined the Mechanical Aerospace Engineering faculty at Carleton University on July 1, 2020. Her research areas encompass wind power modeling and forecasting, power systems planning, negative emissions strategies, electricity market behaviors, and renewable energy policy design. Her current work focuses on increasing the share of electric power generated by renewable energy sources such as wind power, addressing integration issues that affect system resource adequacy and reliability. Utilizing large empirical datasets from wind power producers, electric utilities, and independent system operators, she applies numerical weather prediction models and earth systems models in her research to develop new machine learning optimization methods that support decision-making at community and federal levels. Previously, Dr. Schell served as an Assistant Professor in Industrial Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, contributing to a team that was awarded a Department of Energy grant for innovative energy solutions. Before her tenure at RPI, she was an IVADO Post-doctoral Fellow at Polytechnique Montreal and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan. Dr. Schell holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.S.E. in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and dual Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal.

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