Julian Hunt
Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change 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
Leal Filho, W., Balogun, A.-L., Surroop, D., Salvia, A.L., Narula, K., Li, C., Hunt, J. , Gatto, A., Sharifi, A., Feng, H., Tsani, S., & Azadi, H. (2022). Realising the Potential of Renewable Energy as a Tool for Energy Security in Small Island Developing States. Sustainability 14 (9) e4965. 10.3390/su14094965.
Jurasz, J., Piasecki, A., Hunt, J. , Zheng, W., Ma, T., & Kies, A. (2022). Building integrated pumped-storage potential on a city scale: An analysis based on geographic information systems. Energy 242 e122966. 10.1016/j.energy.2021.122966.
Hunt, J. , Nascimento, A., Schwengber ten Caten, C., Caputo Tomé, F.M., Schneider, P.S., Ribeiro Thomazoni, A.L., José de Castro, N., Brandão, R., Vasconcelos de Freitas, M.A., Colombo Martini, J.S., Ramos, D.S., & Senne, R. (2022). Energy crisis in Brazil: Impact of hydropower reservoir level on the river flow. Energy 239 e121927. 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121927.
Hunt, J. , Zakeri, B. , Nascimento, A., & Brandão, R. (2022). Pumped hydro storage (PHS). In: Storing Energy. pp. 37-65 Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-824510-1 10.1016/B978-0-12-824510-1.00008-8.
de Andrade Furtado, G.C., Amarante Mesquita, A.L., & Hunt, J. (2021). Solar Photovoltaic Energy and Pumped Hydro Storage System Coupling in Southern Countries. In: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. 10.1016/B978-0-12-819723-3.00130-X.