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Professional Path
GdOSolar. Renewable Energy Broker. July 2022 - present
- Renewable Energy Assets Buying / Selling. Market Entry to Spain Energy Market for International Companies. Battery Systems Integration for Industry and Utility Scale.
- Built a beta trading platform for GOs and PPAs that attracted the interest of 26 producers with over 310 MW of renewable energy installations in operation.
- Conducted research focused on flexible ownership and software development for community solar projects and compensation strategies through green certificates.
BaselDAO - Kunst21. Founder and Team leader. July 2020 - July 2022
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Led product development until its launch and team of 3 members, from Basel (Switzerland). A decentralized investment fund concept for art, following the Swiss Distributed Ledger Technology Act.
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Created a crowdinvesting platform concept for art investment using blockchain. Raised funding from FutureSAX, innovation platform from Saxony, and support from the HTW Dresden accelerator (Gründungsschmiede). Established a limited liability company, managing director Kunst21 GmbH (DE), hired and managed a team of 3 members, and raised funding from the Stellar Development Foundation.
HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences. March 2020 - June 2020
- Student Assitant. Employed at the autonomous vehicles laboratory. Final research project for bachelor's degree. Developed Multi-Object test procedures for ADAS/HAD (Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems Highly Automated Driving) with MATLAB.
Awards:
2024 Prize best project at Hackathon Stoos, organized by Schwyz Next, innovation agency from the canton of Schwyz (Switzerland).
2021 Grant by the Stellar Development Foundation from San Francisco via the Stellar Community Fund.
2020 Grant by FutureSAX the innovation agency from Saxony, a German federal State.
Education
Final research project. Autonomous driving tests simulation. HTW Dresden 2020
Industrial engineering, production systems. Universidad de Málaga · 2015 - 2020
Exchange year. Production systems. HTW Dresden · 2018 - 2019
German language course. LMU München · Summer 2017
Previously
8 months in Portsmouth, England, and 2 months in the USA.
Public education Spain