Julian Hunt
Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Julian Hunt is a research scholar in the Sustainable Service Systems (S3) Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program where he focuses on implementing daily and seasonal storage energy technologies in MESSAGE models and analyzing the impact of these technologies on long-term energy planning. His research interests include analysis of energy systems, water-energy-land interfaces, climate change risks, energy security, and energy storage.In addition to his position at IIASA, Hunt is also a visiting professor in the postgraduate program in mechanical engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, where he teaches energy storage and supervises master’s and doctoral students.
Prior to joining the S3 group, Hunt received a two-year IIASA/CAPES-Brazil research grant to map the global potential for seasonal pumped storage. He joined IIASA from the National Commission for Nuclear Energy (CNEN) in Brazil, developing hybrid nuclear and seawater desalination projects. He also previously worked at the Energy and Climate Change Branch of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
Hunt holds a D.Phil in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and a B.Eng degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham.
Last update: 29 SEP 2021
Publications
Hunt, J. , Jurasz, J., Zakeri, B. , Nascimento, A., Cross, S., Caten, C.S.t., de Jesus Pacheco, D.A., Pongpairoj, P., Filho, W.L., Tomé, F.M.C., Senne, R., & van Ruijven, B. (2022). Electric Truck Hydropower, a flexible solution to hydropower in mountainous regions. Energy 248 e123495. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.123495.
Quaranta, E. & Hunt, J. (2022). Retrofitting and Refurbishment of hydropower plants. In: Renewable Energy Production and Distribution. Eds. Jeguirim, M., pp. 301-322 Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-323-91892-3 10.1016/B978-0-323-91892-3.00013-3.
Nakic, D., Djurin, B., Hunt, J. , & Dadar, S. (2022). A Novel Procedure for Minimizing the Volume of Water Tanks in Water Supply Systems. Water 14 (11) e1731.
da Rocha, B.P., de Assis Brasil Weber, N., Smith Schneider, P., Hunt, J. , & Mairesse Siluk, J.C. (2022). Efficiency and NOx emission optimization by genetic algorithm of a coal-fired steam generator modeled with artificial neural networks. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering 44 (5) e218. 10.1007/s40430-022-03481-3.
Zakeri, B. , Hunt, J. , Laldjebaev, M., Krey, V. , Vinca, A. , Parkinson, S. , & Riahi, K. (2022). Role of energy storage in energy and water security in Central Asia. Journal of Energy Storage 50 e104587. 10.1016/j.est.2022.104587.