The central topic of this seminar is modeling approaches to facilitate resource conservation and a just energy transition. Potential subtopics are an emerging technology’s potential for scaling, life-cycle assessment for measuring social and environmental impacts, uncertainty quantification, and economic modeling for the energy transition. Our goal is to create an intimate, collaborative space for students, postdocs, scientists, and PIs within the Stanford techno-economic modeling and systems modeling community. These seminars will provide an opportunity to disseminate insights from your studies, connect with fellow researchers, and strengthen bonds across the community.

In this special seminar, Mathis Heyer, Ph.D. Student, Environmental Assessment and Optimization Group, will give an interactive tutorial instead of a typical research presentation

Abstract: Are you preprocessing datasets for your research? Are you tired of manually rerunning data-preprocessing scripts, losing track of which version of your data you used, or navigating through scattered output files? Snakemake is a powerful and user-friendly workflow management system that brings order, efficiency, adaptability and reproducibility to your data workflows.

In this hands-on tutorial, I’ll guide you through the essentials of Snakemake, from its basic syntax to building scalable and modular pipelines. You’ll learn how to automate preprocessing steps and manage software and data dependencies.  If you like, bring your laptop and follow along step by step.

Bio: Mathis Heyer is pursuing a Ph.D. in Energy Science & Engineering at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Process Systems Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, as well as a master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing. His research in the Environmental Assessment and Optimization Group at Stanford focuses on advancing the understanding of complex energy and process systems through mathematical modeling and optimization. Mathis' work builds on his previous research experiences at the Climate Policy Lab at ETH Zurich and the Sustainable Reaction Engineering Group at Cambridge University. Mathis has been recognized as a Klaus-Murmann Fellow by the Foundation of German Business (sdw) while at RWTH Aachen and is currently an ERP Fellow with the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and a recipient of the SGF Fellowship.