Asgeir Tomasgard

Asgeir Tomasgard (Norway) is a Professor at Norwegian University of Science and technology (NTNU) in Managerial Economics and Optimization doing research on energy transition strategies  and energy policy, often using large scale stochastic optimization models as a fundament. He obtained his PhD in operations research at NTNU in 1998. He was the director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Studies (CenSES) from 2009-2019  and is currently  the director of  FME NTRANS - Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies and  the NTNU Energy Transition Initiative. He is the director of the Lab for computational economics and optimization at NTNU.

Tomasgard is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA). He was elected chair (2010-2013) for the Committee on Stochastic programming (COSP) a technical committee of the Mathematical Optimization Society.   He is also part of the management board of the EURO working group on stochastic optimization. He is a member in INFORMS and IAEE. Tomasgard is a member of the management board in the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) Joint program in Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts of Energy Policies and Technologies.   He is a member of the advisory board on climate for the Norwegian Minister of Climate and Environment and in the board of “Norsk klimastiftelse” and Smart Innovation Norway.

He has been a visiting professor or researcher at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Instituto Nacional De Matemática Pura E Aplicada, University of Bergamo, Lancaster University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam and Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC).