Dr.-Ing. Nils Bornhorst

• Oct. 2003 - Aug. 2009: Studied electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt
• Aug. 2006 - Jan. 2007: Semester abroad at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Electriciens de Grenoble (ENSIEG), France
• Sep. 2009 - Aug. 2014: Research assistant at the Department of Communications Engineering Systems at the Technical University of Darmstadt
• Dec. 2014: PhD in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt with the dissertation "Energy-efficient distributed multicast beamforming using iterative second-order cone programming"
• Jan. 2015 - Apr. 2016: Research assistant at the Department of Energy Management and Operation of Electrical Grids at the University of Kassel
• May 2016 - Sep. 2022: Group leader at the Department of Energy Management and Operation of Electrical Grids at the University of Kassel
• Feb. 2017 - May 2017, Aug. 2018 - Sep. 2019, Jul. 2021 - Sep. 2022: Parental leave
• since Oct. 2022: Senior Scientist in the management team of the Department of Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems at the University of Kassel

• Optimization algorithms
• Operation of distribution networks with a high share of renewable energies
• State estimation of electrical grids
• Machine learning for smart grids

2020

• Z. Liu, S. Wende-von-Berg, G. Banerjee, N. Bornhorst, T. Kerber, A. Maurus, M. Braun, "Adaptive static network equivalent with artificial neural networks.", 16th Symposium on Energy Innovation, Graz, Austria, February 12-14, 2020.
• Zheng Liu, Nils Bornhorst, Sebastian Wende-von Berg, Martin Braun, "A Grid Equivalent Based on Artificial Neural Networks in Power Systems with High Penetration of Distributed Generation with Reactive Power Control", NEIS 2020, Conference on Sustainable Energy Supply and Energy Storage Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 2020.

2019

• J.-H. Menke, N. Bornhorst and M. Braun, Distribution System Monitoring for Smart Power Grids with Distributed Generation Using Artificial Neural Networks, Elsevier International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 113, pp. 472-480, December 2019.[Website]

2018

• S. Meinecke, N. Bornhorst and M. Braun, Power system benchmark generation methodology, NEIS 2018, Conference on Sustainable Energy Supply and Energy Storage Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2018.[Website]

• M. Kreutziger, P. Schegner, S. Wende-von-Berg, M. Braun and N. Bornhorst, Reactive Power Management of Distributed Generators for Selective Voltage Optimization in 110-kV Subtransmission Grids, NEIS 2018; Conference on Sustainable Energy Supply and Energy Storage Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2018.[Website]

2016

• S. Wende - von Berg, N. Bornhorst, S. Gehler, E. Schneider, H. Hänchen, et al, SysDL 2.0 - System Services from Area Distribution Networks: Methods and applications in 14th Symposium on Energy Innovation, Graz, Austria, February 2016,[website].

• A. Szabo, J. Goetz, S. Wende - von Berg, M. Braun, T. Stetz, M- Kreutziger, F. Hinz, S. Gehler, N. Bornhorst, et al, , Contributions of area distribution networks to the provision of system services - Technical application scenarios in OTTI Zukünftige Stromnetze für Erneuerbare Energien, Berlin, January 2016,[Website].

2015

• N. Bornhorst, Energy-efficient distributed multicast beamforming using iterative second-order cone programming, PhD thesis, Darmstadt University of Technology, February 2015, [Website].

• N. Bornhorst and M. Pesavento, Filter-and-forward beamforming with adaptive decoding delays in asynchronous multi-user relay networks, Signal Processing, vol. 109, pp. 132-147, April 2015.[Website]

2013

• N. Bornhorst and M. Pesavento, Filter-and-forward beamforming in asynchronous relay networks, Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'13), pp. 375-379, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2013.[Website]

2012

• N. Bornhorst, P. Davarmanesh, and M. Pesavento, An extended interior-point method for transmit beamforming in multi-group multicasting, Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'12), pp. 6-10, Bucharest, Romania, August 2012.

• N. Bornhorst and M. Pesavento, Beamforming for multi-group multicasting with statistical channel state information using second-order cone programming, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12), pp. 3237-3240, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.[Website.]

• J. Zhang, N. Bornhorst, F. Roemer, M. Haardt, and M. Pesavento, Optimal and suboptimal beamforming for multi-operator two-way relaying with a MIMO amplify-and-forward relay, Proc. International IEEE/ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA'12), pp. 307-311, Dresden, March 2012,[Website].

• N. Bornhorst, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, Distributed beamforming for multi-group multicasting relay networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 221-232, January 2012.[Website]

2011

• N. Bornhorst, and M. Pesavento, An iterative convex approximation approach for transmit beamforming in multi-group multicasting, Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'11), pp. 411-415, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2011.  [Website]

• N. Bornhorst, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, Distributed beamforming for multiuser peer-to-peer and multi-group multicasting relay networks, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11), pp. 2800-2803, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.[Website.]