Biography:

Dr. José Pablo Chaves-Ávila is currently an Associate Professor at the Engineering School (ICAI), Comillas Pontifical University, and, since September 2020, deputy director at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT). He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, in 2008, the first master’s degree in electric power industry from the Engineering School (ICAI), Comillas Pontifical University, as part of the Erasmus Mundus master’s in Economics and Management of Network Industries, the second master’s degree in Digital Economics and Network Industries from Paris Sud-11, Paris, France, and the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate on Sustainable Energy Technologies and Strategies degree from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2014, a joint program with Comillas Pontifical University and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. He has been a Visiting Scholar with the European University Institute, Italy; the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Since March 2025, he has been appointed as a member of the ACER Expert Group on Flexibility Assessment and Chair of the Regulation Working Group of the BRIDGE Initiative. His research interests include energy economics, integration of renewable resources and distributed energy resources in the electricity sector, smart grids, and regulation of the electricity and other energy sectors.