Mauricio Salazar

Edgar Mauricio Salazar Duque earned a double Bachelor's in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, in 2008. He spent eight years in the oil and gas industry, taking on roles in operations, sales, and product development. Driven by a passion for energy systems, he earned a Cum Laude M.Sc. in Smart Electrical Grids from KTH (Sweden) and TU Eindhoven (Netherlands) in 2018. He then pursued a Ph.D. at Eindhoven University of Technology, researching data-driven methods and machine learning for power distribution grids under prof. J.G. Slootweg and Assoc. prof. Phuong Nguyen. His work resulted in over 18 peer-reviewed publications. As of April 2025, he is a Technical Consultant at Enexis.

About the talk: "The Shape of Consumption: A Spherical View on Electricity Load Profiles"
Electricity consumption may seem random, but hidden patterns emerge when we project daily load profiles onto a 3D sphere. In this talk, I’ll show how this spherical structure—built using principal component analysis—helps us visualize clusters, detect outliers, and model new profiles using directional statistics. This approach offers a unified, geometric view of energy use, revealing that consumption evolves as a smooth, continuous process across regions.