Tatiana González Grandón
About
I am a mathematician and economist working at the intersection of economic and financial geography, participatory climate and energy modelling, and decision-making under uncertainty and risk. My research examines how mathematical, financial, and infrastructural systems produce spatially uneven distributions of value, possibility, and risk, and how these distributions are experienced across territories, institutions, and livelihoods. I work across scales, from rural communities to national planning and global financial architectures, with particular attention to how local geographies both shape and are reshaped by climate and energy transitions.
With six years of experience in rural electrification planning, development finance, and water-energy-food nexus projects across Togo, Nigeria, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Niger, I bring an explicitly place-based approach to development and infrastructure research. My collaborations with organisations including the United Nations and GIZ have examined how infrastructure investments, financing arrangements, and policy decisions are embedded in territorial politics, regional ecologies, and transboundary resource systems.
My research is organised around three interconnected areas.
1. Participatory modelling, uncertainty, and epistemic plurality. I develop participatory climate and energy modelling approaches that broaden the production of knowledge beyond expert communities. Combining quantitative modelling with qualitative inquiry, collective deliberation, and situated forms of knowledge, I investigate how uncertainty is represented, how feasible and causal spaces are constructed, and how modelling can support more plural and democratic forms of decision-making.
2. Financial geographies of infrastructure and risk. I investigate the political economy and financial geography of infrastructure, examining how development finance, de-risking instruments, monetary arrangements, and investment architectures redistribute value, ownership, uncertainty, and risk across space. My work traces how apparently abstract financial relations become materialised through infrastructures, territories, livelihoods, and bodies.
3. Alternative monetary-energy infrastructures. I engage in action-oriented research with energy communities, cooperative institutions, and complementary currencies to study how alternative economic infrastructures are collectively produced. Focusing on commoning, monetary innovation, decentralisation, and collective ownership, I examine whether coupling decentralised energy with alternative monetary arrangements can reshape territorial flows of value, economic power, and risk.
Research
Principal Investigator of OPEN4CEC- NTNU
Principal Investigator of SPECTRUM: South’s Pluriverse Electrification for ClimaTe-Resilient rUral CoMmunities
Principal Investigator of Stochastic Quantum Optimization group at NTNU.
Research Lead: PGMO- Sizing and Dispatch of Decentralized Energy Systems with Chance Constraints
Researcher at ENERGICA-Climate and Energy Modelling
Publications
2026
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Marzá, David Ribes;
Grandón, Tatiana Carolina Gonzaléz.
(2026)
Quantum annealing for joint chance-constrained unit commitment.
Journal of Mathematics in Industry
Academic article
2025
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Barani, Mostafa;
Löffler, Konstantin;
Crespo del Granado, Pedro Andres;
Moskalenko, Nikita;
Panos, Evangelos;
Hoffart, Franziska M.;
Hirschhausen, Christian von;
Kannavou, Maria;
Auer, Johann;
Hainsch, Karlo.
(2025)
European energy vision 2050 and beyond: Designing scenarios for Europe’s energy transition.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Academic article
2024
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Ouanes, Nesrine;
Grandón, Tatiana Carolina González;
Heitsch, Holger;
Henrion, René.
(2024)
Optimizing the economic dispatch of weakly-connected mini-grids under uncertainty using joint chance constraints.
Annals of Operations Research
Academic article
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Grandón, Tatiana Carolina González;
Schwenzer, J.;
Steens, T.;
Breuing, J..
(2024)
Electricity demand forecasting with hybrid classical statistical and machine learning algorithms: Case study of Ukraine.
Applied Energy
Academic article
Journal publications
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Marzá, David Ribes;
Grandón, Tatiana Carolina Gonzaléz.
(2026)
Quantum annealing for joint chance-constrained unit commitment.
Journal of Mathematics in Industry
Academic article
-
Ouanes, Nesrine;
Grandón, Tatiana Carolina González;
Heitsch, Holger;
Henrion, René.
(2024)
Optimizing the economic dispatch of weakly-connected mini-grids under uncertainty using joint chance constraints.
Annals of Operations Research
Academic article
-
Grandón, Tatiana Carolina González;
Schwenzer, J.;
Steens, T.;
Breuing, J..
(2024)
Electricity demand forecasting with hybrid classical statistical and machine learning algorithms: Case study of Ukraine.
Applied Energy
Academic article
-
Barani, Mostafa;
Löffler, Konstantin;
Crespo del Granado, Pedro Andres;
Moskalenko, Nikita;
Panos, Evangelos;
Hoffart, Franziska M.;
Hirschhausen, Christian von;
Kannavou, Maria;
Auer, Johann;
Hainsch, Karlo.
(2025)
European energy vision 2050 and beyond: Designing scenarios for Europe’s energy transition.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Academic article
Teaching
Courses
PhD course: Planning Under Uncertainty in energy Markets (IØ8811)