Noah Pflugradt
Group Lead at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Neukirchen-Vluyn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolNoah Pflugradt is a Group Lead and senior researcher with 11+ years of experience in energy system modeling, software development, and data-driven solutions for grid and building-scale decarbonization. He leads the development of HiSim, a scalable house infrastructure simulator, and created LoadProfileGenerator.de, an agent-based, psychologically-informed tool widely used by energy researchers to generate realistic residential demand profiles. His work spans EU projects and standards contributions—ranging from decentralized storage and battery-sizing guidelines to renewable integration in data centers—bridging academic rigor (Dr.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering) with practical, open software for planners and policymakers. Based in North Rhine-Westphalia, he combines hands-on coding and model building with leadership in interdisciplinary teams, often translating complex behavioral detail into actionable system models.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing., Maschinenbau, Dr.-Ing., Maschinenbau at Technische Universität Chemnitz
German, English
Github Skills (74)
simulator10
simulation10
beancount9
tuple9
energy9
seeding9
wpf9
infrastructure9
netstandard9
python-interface9
charts8
dotnet8
journal8
netcore8
power-systems8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FZJ-IEK3-VSA/LoadProfileGenerator
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Program for generating load curves for residential consumers. Agentbased and extremly detailed.
Contributions:12 reviews, 83 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 6 months
curvesconsumers
FZJ-IEK3-VSA/pylpg
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Python interface for the LoadProfileGenerator
Contributions:1 review, 52 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
python-interfacetuplepythonbeancount
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