Dr.  Songmin Yu is a senior researcher (tenured) and energy system modeler at the   Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research. His work focuses on  the modeling of energy system transition, especially in the building and   tertiary sectors. Besides, he is an agent-based modeler and the founder of  ABM4ALL Community on GitHub, where he published the open-source framework -  Melodie - for developing agent-based models in Python. Currently, he is  working on multiple research and consultancy projects for the European   Commission and the government of Germany, for example, European Energy and Climate   Modelling Forum, New Trends in Energy Demand Modeling,   Klimashutzszenarien2050, etc.

Songmin   Yu received his Ph.D. of Management Science and Engineering from Chinese   Academy of Sciences in 2018 with the thesis “A Study on the Carbon Emission   Trading Scheme: An Agent-based Approach”. Before that, he finished his master  of Management Science and Engineering in China University of Petroleum  (Beijing) in 2015, and bachelor of Instrumental Science and Technology in   Beihang University in 2013.