Introduction

Initially this website was created to disseminate information on my doctoral research project. Blog Archive contains posts e.g. from my research trips to India 2017–2019. More recent writings can be found from Energy Blog. This website also contains a H2020 ASSIST project archive.

Author

Sini Numminen, D.Sc. (Tech.)

Academy Research Fellow, NODUS sustainable design research group, Department of Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University.

Education

Doctor of Science in Technology: Engineering Physics (Energy Sciences), School of Science at Aalto University, 2019

• Dissertation: Reliability and sustainability analyses of frugal solar photovoltaic micro-grid systems in emerging markets Download from Aaltodocs
• Research Group: New Energy Technologies Group
  
• Supervisor: Professor Peter D. Lund
  

Master of Science in Technology: Electrical Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology

• Major: Electrical physics
• Minor: Development Studies at the Department of Social Sciences at Helsinki University
  

Work experience

• Postdoctoral researcher, NODUS research group, Department of Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, 8/2020–8/2024
  
• Research Associate, VaasaETT, Helsinki, Finland, 11/2021–
  
• Senior Analyst, VaasaETT, Helsinki, Finland, 8/2019–8/2020
  
• Doctoral candidate, Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, 2015–2019
  
• Researcher, European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories (DERlab) e.V., Kassel, Germany, 2010–2014
  

Teaching experience

• Lecturer of energy access/energy poverty/sustainable energy
  Various lectures at Aalto University courses, and Scientists in schools project (for Finnih primary, secondary and high school students), 2016–
• Course assistant, Aalto University
  Multi-disciplinary energy perspectives (PHYS-C1380), 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022
  Fundamentals of new energy sources (PHYS-C6370), 2016, 2020
  Advances in new energy technologies (PHYS-E0483), 2015
  
• Course developer/teaching assistant, Helsinki University of Technology: Laboratory course for physics, 2004–2006

Languages

• Finnish – Mother tongue
• English – Fluent
• Swedish – Good
• French – Good
• German – Basic

Contact

Email: sini.numminen iki.fi
LinkedIn: LinkedIn