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Climate Pathfinder: Finding Solutions Within the Grid
Duke postdoctoral fellow Dimitris Floros’ connection to climate research came while studying power systems and their networks as a Ph.D. student in network science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. “I realized that the algorithms I was developing could be applied to power system reform,” he says. “The power grid is a massive, dynamic network, one that depends on numerous uncertain variables.” Floros first came to Durham to work as a Ph.D. student in the computer science lab of Professor Xiaobai Sun, who introduced him to the GRACE Lab. The work of GRACE is…
November 5, 2025As a Ph.D. student and research fellow, Tyler Norris’ work has been gaining more than attention. His work is shaping industry and policy conversations, with bipartisan policy efforts, academic impact and a new career opportunity. A study on rethinking ...
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October 28, 2025Karimah Preston is close to attaining her second degree in engineering. But when she first matriculated to North Carolina A&T University, where she would graduate with a bachelor’s degree in biological and biosystems engineering, she wasn’t con...