Sharif Khaleghparast

Phd candidate | Agent-based simulation modelling

Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology
Work packages: WP10 Integral models WP3 Demand, storage and markets
In NEON: 2021 onwards

WP10 PhD candidate (linked to WP3) on energy-system architecture and multi-level agent-based simulation of energy communities; developer of the open-source ACCESS model.

Sharif Khaleghparast is a systems and innovation researcher working on multi-agent system architecture and simulation of energy systems, supply chains and organisations. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in industrial engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology and Sharif University of Technology, and received the 2024 Best Teacher Award of TU/e's Technology, Innovation & Society group.

About me

Have you ever met someone that you think you do not know, but s/he knows you well? That is precisely how I feel related to the world. While it is confident about itself and its connection with me, I curiously keep exploring to figure out what it is and what has been my link with it.

Personal Motivation

With the increasing acceleration of technology development, transition into more detailed and dynamic complex socio-technical systems seems inevitable. Designing “how” to approach such systems help people (and not surprisingly any other living creature) confront less chaos. Therefore, more well-being can be imagined if the design is appropriately based on and linked to society’s concrete yet dynamic requirements. NEON has provided a unique opportunity for me to be involved in such an effort as a systems engineer to explore our world’s underlying grand energy challenges more in-depth.

Energy Systems Architecture & Agent-based Simulation Modeling

Since the foundation of modern renewable energy technologies, energy systems have gradually faced growing structural and behavioral changes. Among these alterations is the possibility of more flexibly changing geographical and temporal service level spans for administrative divisions like governments and municipalities. However, This flexibility is accompanied by the emergence of new agents at different network levels with simultaneously varied roles. Prosumers (as final energy sources/sinks) and energy storages (as intermediate energy sources/sinks) both with a potential supplier and/or consumer function are well-known instances of these newcomers that have added excess sets of complexities to reality and its respective models. In my research, potentials and barriers of governing such networks with different logical and physical layers is being investigated by novel multi-level agent-based simulation models.

Link to other neon research

Developing designs systemically with a critical approach needs simultaneous extreme individual concentration and surprisingly close collaborations with all other stakeholders. In this regard, I am communicating with my peer colleagues in WP10 and also other WPs regularly every week. That way, we are able to share our findings with each other interactively and look at the world from a more interdisciplinary perspective.

Profile text from the former NEON website.

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Publications and talks

Agent-Based Coordination for Capacity and Energy Sharing Societies Through Battery-as-a-Service (conference-paper, 2026)
Empowering energy communities: The curious case of a socially beneficial community-owned solar park (journal-article, 2024)
Applying design research for cross-disciplinary collaboration: Experiences from a gamification process (conference-paper, 2023)
Optimal Agent Framework: A Novel, Cost-Effective Model Articulation to Fill the Integration Gap between Agent-Based Modeling and Decision-Making (journal-article, 2021)