I am an enthusiastic, dedicated, motivated, and ambitious power and energy systems engineer. I have demonstrated success in system analysis, technical guidance, and project management, and I am keen to pursue a successful career.
I have led and coordinated high-impact international and national projects for the WBG, the IDB, and UN-DESA such as the assessment of benefits and cost of decarbonizing the transport sector in Costa Rica, the assessment of benefits and costs of decarbonizing the entire economy of Peru, the development of modeling tools to inform the dialogue towards the updating process of Costa Rica's NDC, and the assessment of the fiscal impacts of decarbonizing the transport sector in Costa Rica. Currently, I lead the technical team that provides insights towards the design of the Strategic Plan in Costa Rica. I have demonstrated high technical and management skills in all projects.
I hold a PhD from the University of Manchester, England, and worked in the UK in one of the most successful projects in Europe that trialed a technology to manage electric vehicles (EVs) while monitoring the charging patterns without and with the technology. I was responsible for the design of the control algorithm to schedule the EVs and all data analysis. Since Oct. 2020, I was appointed as Full Professor at the University of Costa Rica.
I have great experience working with multiple stakeholders (from ministries to civil society organizations) in the region to design long-term strategies compatible with low-emissions goals. In Costa Rica, I have closely worked with the Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Ministry of Planning, and the Ministry of Finance in different projects that involved working closely with stakeholders. In Peru, I planned and executed workshops with over 100 people to discuss the long-term goals of the country during the design of the technical insights towards their long-term, low-emissions strategy, which was also used to update their NDC in 2020.
I possess great technical and writing skills demonstrated in over 25 published top-class journals (full list here) and over 30 published most prestigious conferences (full list here). I have also authored or co-authored over 15 high-impact technical reports for the industry (full list here).
I have great communication skills demonstrated when presenting to different audiences. I also have great skills in managing teams and delivering on time, as well as budget management.
My technical experience includes the use of multiple software packages including ArcGIS, QGIS, DigSilent, OpenDSS, PSS-SINCAL, PSS-E, OSeMOSYS, CLEW, and TIMES. I also have great skills in programming in MATLAB and Python.
Coordinator of the modeling team towards the National Decarbonization Plan of Costa Rica.
Coordinator of the quantification of the technical, financial and social effects of the transport electrification in Costa Rica.
Coordinator of the water and land-use modeling team for Costa Rica.
Development of energy system models for long-term planning at local and national scale.
Techno-economic assessment of electric vehicle integration in energy systems.
Development of electro-mobility (E-Mobility) programs in institutions/organizations.
Monitoring, modeling, simulation, and management (smart grids) of transmission and distribution networks.
Characterization of residential, commercial, and industrial demand (load profiling).
Integration of distributed energy resources (DER) and energy storage in distribution networks.
Monitoring and development of energy efficiency programs.
Writing technical reports and scientific articles to policymakers and technical experts.
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. From Sept. 2010 to Jan. 2014
Thesis: Application of Graph Theory to Islanding for Blackout Prevention and Sectionalizing for Restoration
Supervisor: Prof. Vladimir Terzija
Sponsored by EPSRC and University of Costa Rica
Full Professor at the University of Costa Rica
From Oct. 2020 to present
Main tasks
Head of the Energy Systems department
Coordinator of Electric Power and Energy Research Laboratory - EPERLab
Professor in Electrical Machines Course
Researcher on power system modeling and simulation, network integration of low carbon technologies, active network management, optimization of distribution networks (planning and operation) and stability analysis of transmission networks
Development activities on open source software integration for distribution network analysis (OpenDSS, QGIS)
Development of Integrated Assessment Model of the transport and electricity sector in Costa Rica using OSeMOSYS
Dr. Quiros-Tortos has worked in 15 different projects for the industry. Below are the titles of these.
Development of regionalized policy scenarios compatible with the National Decarbonization Plan to support the National Strategic Plan (for UN-DESA, Washington)
Experts advisory services to assess options to reach zero net emissions in Peru (for IDB, Washington)
Assessing the fiscal impacts of decarbonizing the transport sector in Costa Rica and options to manage it (for IDB, Washington)
Digitalization as a tool to study the integration of electric vehicles y distribution networks and proposal for re-utilization of batteries (for MINAE/ICE, Costa Rica)
Development and assessment of decarbonization pathways to inform dialogue with Costa Rica regarding the updating process of Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) (for WBG, Washington)
Characterization of the energy consumption in the commercial/services sector of Costa Rica (for MINAE/ICE, Costa Rica)
Assessing options to decarbonize the transport sector under technological uncertainty (for IDB, Washington)
Methodology to determine the end-use demand and electricity consumption in the residential sector (for MINAE/ICE, Costa Rica)
Characterization of the energy consumption in the industrial sector of Costa Rica (for MINAE/ICE, Costa Rica)
Characterization of the energy consumption in the residential sector of Costa Rica (for MINAE/ICE, Costa Rica)
Building Deep Decarbonization Pathways in Latin-American and the Caribbean (for IDB, Washington)
Proposal for electric vehicle fast-charging station location in Costa Rica (for MINAE, Costa Rica)
Viability study of energy storage in Costa Rica (for MINAE/ICE, Costa Rica)
Development of a model for the application of system dynamics considering the penetration of electric vehicles, energy storage and distributed generation in Grupo ICE (for ICE and German Technical Cooperation, GIZ, Costa Rica)
Elaboration of technical inputs for the creation of enabling conditions that contribute to the full operation of distributed generation as a mitigation option in Costa Rica (for MINAE and World Bank Group, Costa Rica)
Design of Portfolio of Projects for the Replacement of Inefficient Equipment (for MINAE, Costa Rica)
Performance Indicators for Assessing Distribution Networks and Power Plants (for MINAE, Costa Rica)
BAC Solar - Rooftop PV Feasibility Project Calculator - Web Application (for Bank BAC and CRUSA, Costa Rica)
Modelling of 100% to 150% EV Penetrations within the My Electric Avenue Project (for EA Technology, United Kingdom)
I am co-author 70+ research papers in peer-reviewed top-ranked journals and top-class international conferences and 15+ technical reports. Most of the publications are fully available on Research Gate. Links to the theses that I have supervised are also provided below.