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    P.O. Box 513

    5600 MB Eindhoven

    Netherlands

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Introduction / mission

The mission of MOVEMENT (Modeling and Optimization for Vehicle Electrification, Mobility, Energy and Novel Topics) Research Group is to develop optimization models and methods for systems and control.

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“Before being engineers, you are first and foremost humans”


F. De Sanctis

Organisation profile

Following an optimization-as-a-tool paradigm, our focus lies in devising design and control methods for multi-scale cyber-socio-technical systems, with main applications in mobility and energy and curiosity-driven exploratory projects in pandemics and advanced materials. Our overarching goal is to pursue research that is firmly anchored in our societal and environmental responsibility as engineers and, first and foremost, as individuals.

Motivation and Vision: Energy and mobility systems, and, more broadly, socio-technical infrastructures, are facing and causing significant challenges, such as the climate crisis and social injustice. The advent of new technologies including autonomy, connectivity, big data, and electrification, together with recent advances in optimization and control, may offer opportunities to address these challenges, or drive us into the engineering trap, where we provide technically optimal answers to the wrong questions, ultimately exacerbating those challenges. In this context, we study the design and operation of complex systems in a joint and multi-scale fashion, from individual components and vehicles up to system-wide infrastructural layers, accounting for their interaction and embedding fairness, incentive mechanisms, and operationalized theories of justice as integral to sustainability.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  3. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  4. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  5. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  6. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  7. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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