Biography:
Leandro was born and raised in Brazil. There he obtained his B.Sc. in Economics, in 2010, from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. After the conclusion of his Bachelor´s degree, he worked for five years in the Brazilian power sector, on finance and regulation of hydropower plants. In 2015 he started the Erasmus Mundus Programme «Joint Master in Economics and Management of Network Industries (EMIN)», from which he obtained the Master in the Electric Power Industry from the University Pontificia Comillas, and the Master in Digital Economics and Network Industries from the University Paris-Sud 11 (France). During the last semester of the programme, Leandro was a visiting researcher at the Florence School of Regulation (Italy), where he wrote his Master´s Thesis on the regulation of meshed offshore transmission grids, under the supervision of Dr Jean-Michel Glachant. Leandro is currently a Research Assistant at the Institute for Research and Technology in the area «Smart and Sustainable Grids». His research focuses on DSO-TSO coordination.
Areas of interest:
European regulation; Market design; Smart grids; DSO-TSO coordination; Distributed generation; Demand-side management
JCR: 4,000 Q2 (2022) - SJR: 0,906 Q1 (2022)
JCR: 5,400 Q1 (2022) - SJR: 1,225 Q1 (2022) 
Valor, C., Lind, L., Cossent, R., Escudero, C. Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. Vol. 40, pp. 645 - 662, September 2021. [Online: November 2021]
JCR: 9,377 Q1 (2021); 7,200 Q1 (2022) - SJR: 2,573 Q1 (2021); 2,418 Q1 (2022) 
Valarezo, M., Gómez, T., Chaves, J.P., Lind, L., Correa, M., Ziegler, D., Escobar, R. Analysis of new flexibility market models in Europe. Energies. Vol. 14, nº. 12, pp. 3521-1 - 3521-25, June 2021. [Online: June 2021]
JCR: 3,252 Q3 (2021); 3,200 Q3 (2022) - SJR: 0,653 Q1 (2021); 0,632 Q1 (2022)
JCR: 2,922 Q3 (2019); 6,100 Q2 (2022) - SJR: 0,999 Q1 (2019); 1,491 Q1 (2022) 
