Carlos Vilacha Email & Phone Number

Innsbruck, At

Aldrans, Tyrol, Austria

- Provided electrical engineering consultancy on power distribution problems in transmission grids and wind farms for engineering companies such as Acciona.- Helped conceive and develop a software platform for Naturgy Energy Group to minimise power disruption and profit loss during maintenance work, while applying technical feasibility criteria and safety guidelines.\item{Managed and led a team to develop a long-term cloud application for Naturgy Energy Group to aid in organising large data sets related to nationwide natural gas customers.- Launched a cloud communication platform for handling Naturgy Energy Group external messaging.- Performed process analysis for business customers to define project requirements.- Recruited and managed coordination between business customers and codelab17's technical team.

Vigo

Lecturer of diverse electrical engineering topics such as Circuits Theory, Electrical Networks, Electrical Machines, Electrical Machine Drives and Renewable Energies.

- Assessed options to locate energy fraud spots, also known as non-technical losses, in Colombia.- Applied electrical models and data analysis to expose areas with a high incidence of energy fraud for ElectriCaribe, by using power flow data from their local LV and MV power grids.- Developed a software application to aid with electrical energy management for ElectriCaribe.- Worked on a platform to digitise portions of the Spanish MV and LV grid in collaboration with Applus+ and local engineering groups.

- Developed a SIMD multiphysics algorithm to lower costs when designing overhead power lines that evacuate power from wind farms.- Determined the EMF generation of a nearby substation using structural and electrical models, which then contrasted against ICNIRP Guidelines in collaboration with Naturgy Energy Group.- Presented a proposal to determine the ampacity of overhead power lines more accurately.- Designed a new approach to model overhead power lines by coupling different physical models.- Evaluated the propagation of a lighting bolt across a HV lattice tower using FEM to identify critical points.- Assisted with the teaching of Fundamentals of Circuit Analysis and Electrical Machines, Electrical Systems, Power Lines and Electrical Energy Transmission, Electrical Installations and Special Electrical Installations.

- Reviewed and evaluated methods to analyse and plan electrical grids, and studied transient stability events for Naturgy Energy Group.- Worked on a software application to aid with the planning and analysis of electrical networks, which afforded a competitive alternative to Siemens PSS-E and DIgSILENT to Naturgy Energy Group staff.- Surveyed and applied novel computational algorithms to established engineering problems such as the simulation of magnetic fields and the design of overhead power lines.- Designed a multiphysics model and a software application to simulate overhead power lines.- Engineered a SIMD load power flow that speeded up widespread implementations more than 500 times, using innovative numerical linear algebra in parallel.- Programmed a 2D canvas for drawing geometrical primitives, that was optimised for the graphical representation of large power grids.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Industrial Engineering

- PhD Thesis: Contributions to the analysis and design of HV power lines. - Spanish goverment FPU scholarship.

Master Of Research (Mres), Investigation In Advanced Technologies And Processes In The Industry

Activities and Societies: Master Thesis: Power flow algorithm using novel SIMD architectures.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Industrial Engineering

- Master Thesis: Software application to simulate overhead power lines in a 3D environment. - Special distinction award. - IEEE award.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Electrical Engineering

- Bachelor Thesis: Study of transient phenomena in a small electrical network using Matlab. - Special distinction award.