Dr Rene Weiskircher is working on the Intelligent Grid project to help deliver a future vision for an electricity network in Australia.

Dr Rene Weiskircher: helping to simulate distributed electricity generation

Dr Rene Weiskircher is part of CSIRO's Intelligent Grid project

• 25 June 2010 | Updated 14 October 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Achievements

Current activities

Dr Rene Weiskircher is a research scientist in the Adaptive Supply Networks team at CSIRO.

He is currently working on the Intelligent Grid project.

This project is part of CSIRO's Energy Transformed National Research Flagship.

It involves using simulation modelling to predict the economic, environmental and social benefits of distributed energy to demonstrate its viability to stakeholders and the wider community.

Other projects Dr Weiskircher has worked on recently include:

• experimental research on the global wine supply chain
• improving winery operations by providing better planning software
• improving cooperation between players in supply chains.

For these and other projects, Dr Weiskircher draws on his expertise in a number of areas of maths and computer science including:

• heuristics
• combinatorial optimisation
• integer linear programming
• software engineering.

He is part of a team of mathematicians and engineers that develops analytical tools and technologies using advanced mathematical, statistical, simulation and optimisation models.

These enable business and science to turn data into 'smarter information'.

His team recently worked with Orlando Wines to improve their supply network, for example.

Background

Prior to joining CSIRO in 2004, Dr Weiskircher held a variety of positions including as a researcher with teaching responsibilites and as a lecturer in Europe and Australia.

Academic qualifications

Dr Weiskircher studied Computer Science with secondary subject Economics at Universit¨at des Saarlandes, Saarland, Germany.

He has been awarded a:

• Master's degree, in 1997
• Doctor of Philosophy, in 2002

His Masters thesis was titled 2–Schicht–Planarisierung bipartiter Graphen (2–Layer–Planarization of Bipartite Graphs), with a composite mark 1.2 (1 best possible, 4 pass).

His doctoral thesis was titled New Applications of SPQR-Trees in Graph Drawing, summa cum laude (best possible mark).

Achievements

Dr Weiskircher was:

• nominated for the Dissertationspreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft f¨ur Informatik (Annual Prize for best doctoral thesis of the German Society for Computer Science) in 2003
• awarded a scholarship with stipend from the Graduiertenkolleg Effizienz und Komplexit¨at von Algorithmen und Rechenanlagen in 1997.

Read the Adaptive supply networks overview.