Dr. rer. nat. Michael Brand Principal Scientist, Group Manager "Resilient Monitoring and Control", Senior Researcher

Dr. rer. nat. Michael Brand
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Principal Scientist, Group Manager "Resilient Monitoring and Control", Senior Researcher

Research and Developement Division

Energy / Resilient Monitoring and Control

Competence Cluster

Cyber-Resilient Architectures and Security (CRAS)

Research Focus

Stream Processing
Data Stream Management Systems
Odysseus
Data Stream Management Systems in Smart Grids
State Estimation
State Estimation in under-determined Grids
Adaptive State Estimator
Bad Data Detection
State Estimation with Data Stream Management Systems
Cybersecurity in Smart Grids
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+49 441 9722-144

Michael.Brand(at)offis.de

E84a

OFFIS - Institut für Informatik
Escherweg 2
26121 Oldenburg
GERMANY

Publications
of Dr. rer. nat. Michael Brand

2024

Applying Trust for Operational States of ICT-Enabled Power Grid Services

Michael Brand, Anand Narayan, Sebastian Lehnhoff; April / 2024

Co-Simulation Analysis for Large-Scale Electrolysers Integration in Electricity Grids

Sharaf Alsharif, Danila Valko, Nils Huxoll, Jelke Wibbeke, Tobias Grimm and Michael Brand; European Simulation and Modelling Conference 2024 (ESM 2024); October / 2024

Digital Twin concept and architecture for fleets of hydrogen electrolysers

Sharaf Alsharif, Nils Huxoll, Jelke Wibbeke, Tobias Grimm, Michael Brand, Sebastian Lehnhoff; Frontiers in Energy Efficiency; 07 / 2024

Modelling the propagation of properties across services in cyber-physical energy systems

Anand Narayan, Michael Brand, Nils Huxoll, Batoul Hage Hassan, Sebastian Lehnhoff ; March / 2024

Poster Abstract: A Digital Twin Platform Applied to Hydrogen Electrolyzers

AMIT KUMAR SINGH, JELKE WIBBEKE, AMIN RAEISZADEH, NILS HUXOLL, MICHAEL BRAND; DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics 2024; October / 2024

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2023

Assess: anomaly sensitive state estimation with streaming systems

Brand, Michael and Engel, Dominik and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; Energy Informatics; 2023

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Demo Abstract: IT Platform for Provision of Ancillary Services from Distributed Energy Resources

Payam Teimourzadeh Baboli, Amin Raeiszadeh, Michael Brand, and Sebastian Lehnhoff; DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics, Vienna, Austria; 2023

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Digital Twins for Scaling up Hydrogen Electrolysis

Sharaf Alsharif, Nils Huxoll, Amin Raeiszadeh, Tobias Brandt, Michael Brand, Sebastian Lehnhoff; ETG-Kongress; 05 / 2023

Poster abstract: modeling of resilient state estimation in cyber-physical energy systems

Hage Hassan, Batoul and Brand, Michael and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; Abstracts of the 12th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics; 2023

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Quantifying the resilience of ICT-enabled grid services in cyber-physical energy system

Narayan, Anand and Brand, Michael and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; Energy Informatics; October / 2023

Research Project SiNED Insights – Ancillary Services for Reliable Power Grids in Times of the Progressive German Energiewende and Digital Transformation

C. Biedermann, V. Beutel, J. Beyrodt, M. Brand, S. Buchholz, J. Gerlach, N. Majumdar, T. Leveringhaus, M. Lotz, A. Raeiszadeh, A. Scheunert, P. Teimourzadeh Baboli, P. Tiemann, C. Wegkamp, C. Agert, M. Breitner, B. Engel, S. Geissendörfer, L. Hofmann, M. Könemund, M. Kurrat, S. Lehnhoff, K. von Maydell, A. Nieße, H. Weyer; ETG-Kongress; 05 / 2023

2022

Digital Twin Architecture and Technologies for Hydrogen Electrolyser Applications

Nils Huxoll, Sharaf Alsharif, Jan C Diettrich, Tobias Brandt and Michael Brand; Abstracts of the 11th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics - Volume 5, Supplement 2; September / 2022

Energy cost optimization of globally distributed Internet Data Centers by copula-based multidimensional correlation modeling

M. A. Lasemi, S. Alizadeh, M. Assili, Z. Yang, P. Teimourzadeh Baboli, A. Arabkoohsar, A. Raeiszadeh, M. Brand, and S. Lehnhoff; Energy Reports; 12 / 2022

Multivariate Cross-Correlated Reliability Modeling of Wind Turbines using Pair-Copula Functions

P. Teimourzadeh Baboli, A. Raeiszadeh, M. Brand, and S. Lehnhoff; IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe); Oct. / 2022

Reliability-Sensitive Optimization for Provision of Ancillary Services by Tempo-Spatial Correlated Distributed Energy Resources

P. Teimourzadeh Baboli, A. Raeiszadeh, M. Brand, and S. Lehnhoff; 17th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications; Sep. / 2022

Resilience of Smart Integrated Energy Systems

Davood Babazadeh, Payam Teimourzadeh Baboli, Michael Brand, Christoph Mayer, Christian Becker, Sebastian Lehnhoff; Handbook of Smart Energy Systems; March / 2022

Virtualization for Performance Guarantees of State Estimation in Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

Batoul Hage Hassan, Anand Narayan, Michael Brand and Sebastian Lehnhoff; DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics 2022; September / 2022

2021

Demo abstract: A Platform to Assess the Trust in Power System Components, Data, and Services

Michael Brand, Felipe Castro, Batoul Hage Hassan, Carsten Krüger, Torben Logemann, Björn Siemers, Dennis Weller, Torge Wolff, Sebastian Lehnhoff; Abstracts of the 10th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics; 09 / 2021

Modern Trends and Skill Gaps of Cyber Security in Smart Grid

Björn Siemers, Shadi Attarha, Jirapa Kamsamrong, Michael Brand, Maria Valliou, Ruta Pirta-Dreimane, Janis Grabis, Nadezhda Kunicina, Mike Mekkanen, Tero Vartiainen and Sebastian Lehnhoff; IEEE EUROCON-2021 (2021 IEEE 19th International Conference on Smart Technologies (EUROCON)); 06 / 2021

State of the Art in Cybersecurity and Smart Grid Education

Andrejs Romanovs, Jana Bikovska, Janis Peksa, Tero Vartiainen, Panos Kotsampopoulos, Bahaa Eltahawy, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Michael Brand and Julija Strebko; IEEE EUROCON-2021 (2021 IEEE 19th International Conference on Smart Technologies (EUROCON)); 06 / 2021

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Stochastic Correlation Modelling of Renewable Energy Sources for Provision of Ancillary Services using Multi-dimensional Copula Functions

P. Teimourzadeh Baboli, M. Brand, and S. Lehnhoff; 11th Smart Grid Conference (SGC2021); 2021

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Trust in Power System State Variables based on Trust in Measurements

Michael Brand, Davood Babazadeh and Sebastian Lehnhoff; 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech; 06 / 2021

2020

Anfragesprache für Zeitreihen - Time Series Query Language

Andre Göring, Michael Brand, Jad Asswad, Patrick Bruns, Norman Ihle, Michael Specht, Carsten Saathoff, Bernd Grünefeld, Jörg Friebe, Tim Rasim, Marcel Winter; openKONSEQUENZ, Berlin; 2 / 2020

NetzDatenStrom - Technische Dokumentation der Referenzarchitektur und der Schnittstellen

Andre Göring, Michael Brand, Jad Asswad, Patrick Bruns, Norman Ihle, Adrian Jimenez, Michael Specht, Carsten Saathoff, Bernd Grünefeld, Jörg Friebe, Tim Rasim; openKONSEQUENZ, Berlin; 5 / 2020

Real-time Detection of Smart Meter Eventswith Odysseus

Brand, Michael and Brandt, Tobias and Grawunder, Marco; Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems; Juli / 2020

Trust assessment of power system states

Brand, Michael and Babazadeh, Davood and Krüger, Carsten and Siemers, Björn and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; Energy Informatics; 2020

2019

Framework for the Integration of ICT-relevant Data in Power System Applications

Michael Brand, Shoaib Ansari, Felipe Castro, Ranim Chakra, Batoul Hage Hassan, Carsten Krüger, Davood Babazadeh, Sebastian Lehnhoff; PowerTech; 2019

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Trust in control: a trust model for power system network assessment

Brand, Michael and Babazadeh, Davood and Lehnhoff, Sebastian and Engel, Dominik; EPJ Web of Conferences; 2019

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2017

A Modular Approach for Non-Distributed Crash Recovery for Streaming Systems

Brand, Michael and Grawunder, Marco and Appelrath, H and others; Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2017); 2017

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ASSESS - Anomaly-Sensitive State Estimation with Streaming Systems in Smart Grids

Brand, Michael; 8th PhD Workshop Energy Informatics (Energieinformatik) [not published]; 2017

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2015

Herakles: a system for sensor-based live sport analysis using private peer-to-peer networks

Brand, Michael and Brandt, Tobias and Cordes, Carsten and Wilken, Marc and Michelsen, Timo; Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2015)-Workshopband; 2015

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Herakles: Real-time sport analysis using a distributed data stream management system

Michelsen, Timo and Brand, Michael and Cordes, Carsten and Appelrath, H-Jürgen; Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems; 2015

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Modulares Verteilungskonzept für Datenstrommanagementsysteme

Michelsen, Timo and Brand, Michael and Appelrath, H-Jürgen; Datenbank-Spektrum; 2015

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Using odysseus for real-time analysis over high volume geospatial data streams

Brand, Michael and Grawunder, Marco; Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems; 2015

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Projects
of Dr. rer. nat. Michael Brand

C

CybResLab

Smart Grid Cyber-Resilience Laboratory

Duration: 2017 - 2021

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DERIEL

De-Risking Electrolysis

Duration: 2021 - 2025

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OpenEnergyTwin

Duration: 2024 - 2026