Tom Brown
Professor Of Digital Transformation In Energy Systems
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolTom Brown is a Professor of Digital Transformation in Energy Systems at TU Berlin with 11 years of experience modelling how power and sector-coupled systems must evolve to meet net-zero targets. He leads development of widely used open-source tools such as PyPSA, atlite and linopy and maintains the continental-scale PyPSA-Eur model, blending rigorous research with practical software engineering. His background spans academia and industry—from string theory postdoctoral work to grid-integration roles—giving him a rare combination of theoretical depth and applied systems experience. Based in Berlin, he publishes extensively on high shares of variable wind and solar integration and builds reproducible models that policymakers and system planners can deploy. Notably, he co-founded PyPSA, helping make large-scale energy-system modelling transparent and extensible for the research community.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA MA MMath (CASM) Mathematics and Physics, BA MA MMath (CASM) Mathematics and Physics at University of CambridgePhD Theoretical Physics, PhD Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London
Github Skills (66)
snakemake10
python10
energy10
forge10
power-systems10
transmission10
sector10
modelica10
optimization10
photovoltaic10
electricity10
sec10
pv10
snl-applications10
optimisation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nworbmot/esm-lectures
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Lecture slides for KIT Energy System Modelling (ESM) course
Contributions:49 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
PyPSA/whobs-server
Dec 2018 - May 2022
Online optimisation tool for wind+solar+storage systems
Contributions:135 commits, 6 PRs, 83 pushes in 3 years 5 months
solarwindphotovoltaicsolar-windstorage-systems
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