Seoul National University

Seoul National University (SNU) is the Republic of Korea's flagship national research university, founded in 1946 and located in Seoul. It is a comprehensive university covering engineering, natural and social sciences, humanities, medicine and the arts, and it participates in international research programmes as a legal entity eligible for funding from KAIA (Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement), the Korean funding agency in DUT Call 2026.

On this platform SNU is represented by the Department of Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering, in cooperation with the School of Transdisciplinary Innovations (SNUTI). The team brings together two complementary research lines:

- Energy-systems modelling: optimisation of multi-energy systems (electricity, heat/cooling, storage, electric mobility), storage and sector-coupling model fidelity, macro-energy-system modelling (PyPSA, GenX, MacroEnergy), and scientific machine learning with rigorous uncertainty quantification for sparse, heterogeneous measurement data.

- System reliability and infrastructure resilience: probabilistic risk and reliability analysis of networked infrastructure systems, resilience metrics, and decision support under uncertainty, with a long record of international collaboration in engineering mechanics and structural safety.

For DUT Call 2026 we seek to join a consortium in the Positive Energy Districts pathway (Topic 3: flexibility in energy systems and integrated technologies) as a Co-applicant with a clearly bounded modelling-and-validation role: quantifying the gap between planned and realised multi-carrier flexibility, delivering uncertainty-aware validation of district digital twins against measured data, defining resilience and congestion-relief indicators, and providing a Korean district as a non-European validation case. Our model inputs and outputs follow CityGML Energy ADE 2.0 / OGC conventions for interoperability with partners' platforms.

SNU's Korean context offers a contrasting test environment for PED solutions: high-rise collective housing, large summer cooling loads, extensive district heating, and binding distribution-grid connection limits in a single-buyer electricity market now being opened by the Distributed Energy Act and the Jeju real-time market pilot.

Contact: Prof. Taemin Heo, Department of Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering and School of Transdisciplinart Innovations (taemin.heo [at] snu.ac.kr).