Dr. Rongling Li

Biography

Rongling Li is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) within the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on energy-efficient, grid-interactive, and energy-resilient buildings and communities, addressing the life-cycle impacts of buildings in relation to future climate scenarios. He works on smart energy systems and smart cities while contributing to numerous climate adaptation projects, including EU-funded initiatives like SEEDS, RETIME, and BIPED. As the principal investigator on major projects, he develops cost-effective and replicable renewable energy sources integrated with electrified heating and cooling systems. Li has a robust background supervising PhD students, focusing on energy flexibility in buildings and districts. He is involved in defining research topics concerning the built environment in collaboration with established partnerships in Horizon Europe. His research interests encompass smart cities, energy resilience, energy system modeling, and machine learning applications to building physics services. He has published extensively in high-profile academic journals such as Applied Energy and Buildings, contributing significantly to the discourse on sustainable energy solutions.

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