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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

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Leal Filho, W., Hunt, J. , & Kovaleva, M. (2021). Garbage Patches and Their Environmental Implications in a Plastisphere. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9 (11) e1289. 10.3390/jmse9111289.

Hunt, J. , Weber, N., Zakeri, B. , Diaby, A.T., Byrne, P., Filho, W.L., & Schneider, P.S. (2021). Deep seawater cooling and desalination: Combining seawater air conditioning and desalination. Sustainable Cities and Society 74 e103257. 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103257.

Catolico, A.C.C., Maestrini, M., Strauch, J.C.M., Giusti, F., & Hunt, J. (2021). Socioeconomic impacts of large hydroelectric power plants in Brazil: A synthetic control assessment of Estreito hydropower plant. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 151 e111508. 10.1016/j.rser.2021.111508.

Hunt, J. , Falchetta, G., Parkinson, S. , Vinca, A. , Zakeri, B. , Byers, E. , Jurasz, J., Quaranta, E., Grenier, E., Pereira Junior, A., Barbosa, P., Brandão, R., de Castro, N., Schneider, P., Vieira, L., Nascimento, A., & Wada, Y. (2021). Hydropower and seasonal pumped hydropower storage in the Indus basin:pros and cons. Journal of Energy Storage 41 e102916. 10.1016/j.est.2021.102916.

Hunt, J. , Zakeri, B. , de Barros, A.G., Filho, W.L., Marques, A.D., Barbosa, P.S.F., Schneider, P.S., & Farenzena, M. (2021). Buoyancy Energy Storage Technology: An energy storage solution for islands, coastal regions, offshore wind power and hydrogen compression. Journal of Energy Storage 40 e102746. 10.1016/j.est.2021.102746.