Alberto J. Lamadrid L. is associate professor and James T. Kane faculty fellow, with a joint appointment in the Economics Department at the College of Business, and in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University. He is also Associate Director of the University’s Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) at Lehigh, associate researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and adjunct associate professor at the Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.
His interests lie at the boundaries between energy and environmental economics, complex stochastic dynamic systems, and mechanism design. His work focuses on the development of methodologies and tools to study decision making processes including the electrical network for operations, planning and regulation with large scale penetration of renewable energy sources; strategies for resilient power systems; the analysis of shale gas exploration and use; and the environmental effects of energy decisions.
His work has been funded and supported by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Advanced Research Projects Agency -Energy (ARPA-E), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DoE), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Sloan), the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, amongst others.
Faculty Website: Lehigh College of Business
Email: ajlamadrid@lehigh.edu