Johanna Mathieu

My research focuses on ways to reduce the environmental impact, cost, and inefficiency of electric power systems via new operational and control strategies. I am particularly interested in developing new methods to actively engage distributed flexible resources such as energy storage, electric loads, and distributed renewable resources in power system operation. This is especially important in power systems with high penetrations of intermittent renewable energy resources such as wind and solar. In my work, I use methods from a variety of fields including control systems and optimization. I also use engineering methods to inform energy policy.

Prior to joining the University of Michigan in January 2014, I was a postdoc in the Power Systems Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. I received my M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and my S.B. from MIT.

I am a member of the Michigan Power and Energy Lab (MPEL) and the director of the Institute for Energy Solutions.