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I've spent much of my career working on large-scale energy infrastructure projects, and one thing has become increasingly clear: the way we develop and build physical infrastructure is unnecessarily fragmented.
Engineering, grid connections, equipment selection, financing, and operations are deeply interconnected, yet they're often addressed separately, by different specialists, over months or years.
I believe AI creates an opportunity to change that.
My current focus is industrial electrification, particularly how intelligent systems can make it faster and more economical for manufacturers to move from fossil-fuel-based heat to electricity.
The opportunity goes beyond replacing one piece of equipment with another. It's about rethinking the entire process, from initial feasibility and detailed engineering to financing, construction, and ongoing operations.
I'm exploring how AI could automate much of that work, ultimately allowing manufacturers to purchase reliable, lower-cost heat without having to navigate the complexity themselves.
The longer-term ambition is self-driving infrastructure: physical systems that can be designed, developed, and operated with radically greater speed and intelligence.
I'm interested in
What if infrastructure could engineer itself?
What if we designed energy systems around how they would actually operate, rather than treating engineering, economics, and operations as separate decisions?
How much of the time and cost involved in building infrastructure is actually necessary?
What becomes possible when deploying existing technologies is no longer the bottleneck?
About
I have a degree in physics and econometrics, and a career spent at the intersection of science, economics, and infrastructure.
At McKinsey, I worked on energy projects including Germany's nuclear phase-out following Fukushima. It was an early lesson in the difference between what we want our energy systems to become and the practical realities of getting there.
Since then, I've led the strategy and design of three billion-euro-scale energy projects: Europe's largest e-SAF facility in Rotterdam, a 500kt green ammonia project in Portugal, and a green methanol facility in Spain.
All three have progressed to advanced engineering or construction, despite much of the industry putting similar projects on hold.
My work has taken me across Europe, Africa, and Australia, and involved everything from initial project economics and commercial negotiations to technical development and execution.
Those experiences have shaped how I think about infrastructure. The best technical solution isn't necessarily the best economic one. And a project that works on paper isn't necessarily one that can be built efficiently.
I'm particularly interested in problems that sit between disciplines, where improving one part of a system isn't enough because everything else is connected.
Today, I'm exploring what becomes possible when we can bring those decisions together.
LinkedIn ↗Beyond work
I'm also a conservatory-trained pianist, ultramarathon runner, kitesurfer, paraglider, and photographer.
I've lived and worked across several continents, and spend as much time as I can exploring the natural world, whether on foot, in the mountains, on the water, or in the air.
