Ruben Baetens
Institute Manager Leuven Institute For Energy & Society at KU Leuven Institute for Energy & Society
Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolRuben Baetens is an interdisciplinary energy policy and strategy leader with 14 years’ experience at the nexus of engineering, law, economics and social science, now managing KU Leuven’s Institute for Energy & Society. He coordinates a network of 50+ professors to translate academic insight into actionable guidance on governance, market design and the social dimensions of decarbonisation for governments, industry and civil society. Previously a senior consultant and product manager at 3E, Ruben led complex multi-stakeholder projects on CfDs, PPAs, energy communities and coordinated planning, and helped evolve a SaaS platform for renewable asset performance. He holds a PhD in building physics and combines technical rigor with legal and institutional fluency to design solutions that are technically robust, socially legitimate and practically implementable. An avid reader, writer and coder, he blends research, consultancy and leadership to accelerate a just energy transition.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Civil Engineering at KU LeuvenNorwegian University of Science and Technology
French, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (53)
simulation10
energy-efficiency10
chemical-engineering10
transient10
stochastic10
energy10
district10
power-systems10
energy-system10
renewable-energy10
snl-applications10
simultaneous10
electrical-engineering10
hydrodynamics10
fuel10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
open-ideas/StROBe
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Python module for stochastic residential occupancy behavior for both building and district energy simulations.
Contributions:125 commits in 5 months
pythonoccupancysimulationssimulationdistrict
rubenbaetens/IDEAS
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 6 days
feederthermalsimulationelectricaltransient
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