Introduction

Posts, news and writings about energy, energy consumption and saving can be found on the new Energy Blog. I started this new blog in August 2020 with a special focus on the user side and energy demand issues.

Initially this website was created to disseminate information on my doctoral research project. Blog Archive contains posts, news 2017-2019 (my doctoral research project e.g. about India).

Author

Sini Numminen, D.Sc. (Tech.)

Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University and Senior Analyst at VaasaETT, Finland.

Education

Doctor of Science in Technology: Engineering Physics (Energy Sciences), School of Science at Aalto University, 2019

• Dissertation: Reliability and sustainability analyses of frugal solar photovoltaic micro-grid systems in emerging markets Download from Aaltodocs
• Research Group: New Energy Technologies Group
  
• Supervisor: Professor Peter D. Lund
  

Master of Science in Technology: Electrical Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology

• Major: Electrical physics
• Minor: Development Studies at the Department of Social Sciences at Helsinki University
  

Work experience

• Postdoctoral researcher, NODUS research group, Department of Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, 8/2020–
  
• Senior Analyst, VaasaETT, Helsinki, Finland, 8/2019–
  
• Doctoral candidate, Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, 2015–2019
  
• Researcher, European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories (DERlab) e.V., Kassel, Germany, 2010–2014
  

Teaching experience

• Lecturer of energy access/energy poverty/sustainable energy
  Various lectures at Aalto University courses, and Scientists in schools project (for Finnih primary, secondary and high school students), 2016–
• Course assistant, Aalto University
  Multi-disciplinary energy perspectives (PHYS-C1380), 2016, 2018, 2020
  Fundamentals of new energy sources (PHYS-C6370), 2016, 2020
  Advances in new energy technologies (PHYS-E0483), 2015
  
• Course developer/teaching assistant, Helsinki University of Technology: Laboratory course for physics, 2004–2006

Languages

• Finnish – Mother tongue
• English – Fluent
• Swedish – Good
• French – Good
• German – Basic

Contact

Email: sini.numminen iki.fi
LinkedIn: LinkedIn