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Julian Hunt

Research Scholar

Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group

Energy, Climate, and Environment

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

Lopes de Souza Ribeiro, H., Hunt, J. , & Romero, O.J. (2023). Perda de carga promovida por influxo radial em poços horizontais de produção de petróleo. Latin American Journal of Energy Research 10 (1) 13-22. 10.21712/lajer.2023.v10.n1.p13-22.

Hunt, J.D. , Montanari, P.M., Hummes, D.N., Taghavi, M., Zakeri, B. , Romero, O.J., Zhou, W., Vasconcelos de Freitas, M.A., José de Castro, N., Schneider, P.S., & Wada, Y. (2023). Solid air hydrogen liquefaction, the missing link of the hydrogen economy. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 48 (75) 29198-29208. 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.03.405.

Hunt, J. , Zakeri, B. , Nascimento, A., Gazoli, J.R., Bindemann, F.T., Wada, Y. , van Ruijven, B. , & Riahi, K. (2023). Compressed air seesaw energy storage: A solution for long-term electricity storage. Journal of Energy Storage 60 e106638. 10.1016/j.est.2023.106638.

Hunt, J. , Zakeri, B. , Nascimento, A., de Jesus Pacheco, D.A., Patro, E.R., Đurin, B., Pereira, M.G., Filho, W.L., & Wada, Y. (2023). Isothermal Deep Ocean Compressed Air Energy Storage: An Affordable Solution for Seasonal Energy Storage. Energies 16 (7) e3118. 10.3390/en16073118.

Hunt, J. , Falchetta, G., Zakeri, B. , Nascimento, A., Schneider, P.S., Weber, N.A.B., Mesquita, A.L.A., Barbosa, P.S.F., & de Castro, N.J. (2023). Hydropower impact on the river flow of a humid regional climate. In: Advances in Hydropower Systems. Eds. Perera, A., Rieu-Clark, A., Hunt, J. , Neupane, B., & Chuphal, D.S., pp. 291-312 Scientific Research Publishing. ISBN 978-1-64997-604-8