The Energy Club at Georgia Tech is dedicated to bringing together different viewpoints on energy as well as the social, economic and political factors that comprise the issue. We are a diverse group made up of technical and non-technical members from different fields of study spanning from first year undergraduates to fifth year doctoral students.
Executive Postions
President: Luke Matheny
Luke is an undergraduate student is a second year student in Materials Science and Engineering. He is interested in researching materials for energy storage and in the future wants to research and develop technologies for sustainable grid infrastructure.
VP of Outreach: Zachary White
Zachary is a second year Mechanical Engineering undergrad with a minor in energy systems. He is interested in developing more sustainable energy storage and capture technologies in the future.
Treasuer: Reanna Rafiq
Reanna Rafiq is an undergrad chemical engineering major planning to graduate in ’24 with an energy systems minor. Outside of school, she enjoys playing piano and singing karaoke (badly). She hopes that her career can contribute to an increase in accessibility to clean energy for all!
VP of Communications: Wolfgang Buchmaier
Wolfgang is a 4th Year Undergraduate studying Materials Science and Engineering, with a concentration in Structural and Functional Materials. He would like to help develop sustainable-energy technology in the future.
VP of Operations: Max Zhang
Max is a 2nd-year undergraduate studying Materials Science and Engineering. He is interested in climate tech, sustainability, and energy investment. Outside of school, he enjoys playing basketball and tennis.
Co-VP of Events: Katherine Anderson
Katherine is a third year mechanical engineering student with a minor in aerospace engineering. She is interested in the intersection of space and energy, and hopes to get students excited about energy systems.
Co-VP of Events: Radhika Sharma
Radhika Sharma is an undergrad in electrical engineering, with an interest in power systems and the electric grid. She is interested in how we will implement renewables into our existing power grid and in the future hopes to work with distributed energy.
Conference Chair: Amanda West
Amanda is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Advanced Computational Electricity Systems (ACES) Laboratory, directed by Dr. Santiago Grijalva. Amanda’s research seeks to develop a framework to design stable microgrids to increase energy equity, economic development, and resilience within under-resourced communities. Prior to joining the lab, Amanda conducted research in supercritical fluid dielectrics, high frequency radar propagation, and organic electronics.
Advisors
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Molzahn
Daniel Molzahn joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in Spring 2019. Prior to this position, Dr. Molzahn was a computational engineer at Argonne National Laboratory in the Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis (CEEESA), where he currently holds an affiliate position. He was a Dow Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainability in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and the Master’s of Public Affairs degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. In his spare time, Dr. Molzahn enjoys hiking, waterskiing, and climbing. Also, as a shareholder of the world’s greatest sporting franchise, he keeps an eye on his investment by watching and attending football games of the 13-time-champion Green Bay Packers football team.
Research interests:
Developing optimization and control algorithms in order to improve the environmental sustainability, economic efficiency, and reliability of electric power systems
Addressing non-linearities resulting from the power flow equations
Developing mathematically rigorous techniques for incorporating uncertainties related to renewable generation and varying load demands