Tarek AlskaifTarek AlSkaif is an Assistant Professor with Tenure-track at the Information Technology group (INF), Wageningen University & Research (WUR). He received the Ph.D. degree (Cum-laude) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), Statitical Analysis of Networks and Systems (SANS) research group, Spain in 2016 and obtained the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Damascus University, Syria in 2007 and 2011, respectively.
Tarek is passionate about sustainability and the Energy Transition and believes in the key role of Information Technology in enabling that. Between 2016 - 2020, he was a postdoc in the Energy & Resources group at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, focusing on different research problems in smart grids and smart cities, including smart energy systems design, local energy communities, solar energy forecasting, smart integration of electric vehciles, among others, all with an emphasis on using ICT platforms, modeling, data analytics and artificial intelligence. Between 2016 and 2019, he was mainly working on the EU-project: PARticipatory platform for sustainable ENergy managemenT (PARENT), JPI, Urban Europe. Between 2018 and 2020, he initiated and coordinated the project: "A Blockchain-based platform for peer-to-peer energy transactions between Distributed Energy Resources (B-DER)" under the framework TKI-Urban Energy, Topsector Energie. Tarek has also been actively involved in other EU and Dutch research projects that uses ICT to facilitate the Energy Transition, such as the EU project Smart EV Solar Charging and the NWO project Energy Intranets (NEAT). Read More Read Less