{"682268":{"#nid":"682268","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Meet the Expert: Daniel Molzahn","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Molzahn will readily admit he\u2019s a Cheesehead.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBorn and brought up in Wisconsin, the associate professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for undergraduate and graduate studies. It was also at Madison that he decided to go into the family business: power engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMolzahn\u2019s grandfather was a Navy electrician in World War II and later completed a bachelor\u2019s in electrical engineering. He eventually was plant director at a big coal plant in Green Bay. Molzahn\u2019s dad was also a power engineer and worked at a utility company, focusing on nuclear power.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was not uncommon for family vacations to include a visit to a coal mine or a nuclear power plant. Being steeped in everything power engineering eventually seeped into Molzahn\u2019s bones. \u201cI remember seeing all the infrastructure that goes into producing energy and it was endlessly fascinating for me,\u201d he says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat endless fascination has worked its way into Molzahn\u2019s research today\u2014at the intersection of computation and power systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/meet-the-expert-daniel-molzahn\/\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the EPIcenter Webpage\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF grant winner and associate professor is working to improve the resilience of power grids while also indulging in his other love: history.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Molzahn will readily admit he\u2019s a Cheesehead.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBorn and brought up in Wisconsin, the associate professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for undergraduate and graduate studies. It was also at Madison that he decided to go into the family business: power engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMolzahn\u2019s grandfather was a Navy electrician in World War II and later completed a bachelor\u2019s in electrical engineering. He eventually was plant director at a big coal plant in Green Bay. Molzahn\u2019s dad was also a power engineer and worked at a utility company, focusing on nuclear power.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was not uncommon for family vacations to include a visit to a coal mine or a nuclear power plant. Being steeped in everything power engineering eventually seeped into Molzahn\u2019s bones. \u201cI remember seeing all the infrastructure that goes into producing energy and it was endlessly fascinating for me,\u201d he says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat endless fascination has worked its way into Molzahn\u2019s research today\u2014at the intersection of computation and power systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The NSF grant winner and associate professor is working to improve the resilience of power grids while also indulging in his other love: history."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2025-05-07 00:17:12","changed_gmt":"2025-05-07 00:17:37","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWritten by: Poornima Apte\u003Cbr\u003ENews Contact: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPriya Devarajan\u003C\/a\u003E || SEI Communications Program Manager\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}