Francisco Muñoz

Francisco Muñoz is a Mechanical Civil Engineer from the University of Chile and holds a Ph.D. in Engineering with a focus on Energy Economics and Operations Research from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, United States. In 2015, he joined the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, where he currently serves as an Associate Professor. He is an Associate Researcher for the FONDAP Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) and the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E). He was a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, USA, and has served as a consultant for organizations such as the Ministry of Energy, the Inter-American Development Bank, and GIZ. His research focuses on developing mechanisms for the efficient operation of electricity markets and conducting quantitative analysis of these markets using mathematical programming tools. These include formulating equilibrium models, implementing computational algorithms for solving large-scale problems, and developing tools for planning under uncertainty and risk aversion. He currently teaches courses in Industrial Organization and Applications of Economics and Optimization to Energy Systems in the undergraduate Industrial Civil Engineering program, as well as Advanced Microeconomics in the Doctorate and Master’s programs in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (DIIIO and MIIIO).