Julian Hunt
Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Julian Hunt is a research scholar in the Sustainable Service Systems (S3) Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program where he focuses on implementing daily and seasonal storage energy technologies in MESSAGE models and analyzing the impact of these technologies on long-term energy planning. His research interests include analysis of energy systems, water-energy-land interfaces, climate change risks, energy security, and energy storage.In addition to his position at IIASA, Hunt is also a visiting professor in the postgraduate program in mechanical engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, where he teaches energy storage and supervises master's and doctoral students.
Prior to joining the S3 group, Hunt received a two-year IIASA/CAPES-Brazil research grant to map the global potential for seasonal pumped storage. He joined IIASA from the National Commission for Nuclear Energy (CNEN) in Brazil, developing hybrid nuclear and seawater desalination projects. He also previously worked at the Energy and Climate Change Branch of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
Hunt holds a D.Phil in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and a B.Eng degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham.
Last update: 29 SEP 2021
Publications
Hunt, J. , Nascimento, A., Zakeri, B. , Jurasz, J., Dąbek, P.B., Barbosa, P., Brandão, R., de Castro, N., Leal Filho, W., & Riahi, K. (2022). Lift Energy Storage Technology: A solution for decentralized urban energy storage. Energy 254 e124102. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124102.
Hunt, J. , Nascimento, A., Zakeri, B. , Barbosa, P., & Costalonga, L. (2022). Seawater air-conditioning and ammonia district cooling: A solution for warm coastal regions. Energy 254 e124359. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124359.
de Jesus Pacheco, D.A., ten Caten, C.S., Jung, C.F., Pergher, I., & Hunt, J. (2022). Triple Bottom Line impacts of traditional Product-Service Systems models: Myth or truth? A Natural Language Understanding approach. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 96 e106819. 10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106819.
Hunt, J. , Nascimento, A., Guzman, O.J.R., Furtado, G.C.D.A., ten Caten, C.S., Tomé, F.M.C., Leal Filho, W., Đurin, B., Lopes, M., & Wada, Y. (2022). Sedimentary Basin Water and Energy Storage: A Low Environmental Impact Option for the Bananal Basin. Energies 15 (12) e4498.
Hunt, J. , Nascimento, A., Zakeri, B. , & Barbosa, P.S.F. (2022). Hydrogen Deep Ocean Link: a global sustainable interconnected energy grid. Energy 249 e123660. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.123660.