Mario Džamarija - Postdoc

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Bayreuth, Germany

Experience

Jun 2025 - Present

8 months

Bayreuth, Germany

Postdoc

Bayreuth University

Oct 2024 - May 2025

8 months

Zagreb, Croatia

Independent Consultant

EI Power Sys. Dept.

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024

9 months

Düsseldorf, Germany

Nordic System Short-Term Power Market Analyst

UGC

Calibrated/backcasted the in-house model and provided the day-ahead forecast
Set the water-values for each of the 12 Nordic’s price zones
Conducted a forecast three weeks in advance to estimate the opportunity cost
Supported six traders in optimal ~1.5 GW assets bidding and dispatch

Feb 2023 - Aug 2023

7 months

Improved skills in Linux system administration

NFS
OpenSSH

Jul 2022 - Jan 2023

7 months

Zagreb, Croatia

Software Development Specialist

Comsysto Reply GmbH

Flask web development
Python
HTML/CSS
Git
Bash
SQLAlchemy

Mar 2022 - Jun 2022

4 months

Improved in Python and the Linux command line

Python (Udemy, books)
Linux command line

Jan 2020 - Feb 2022

2 years 2 months

London, United Kingdom

Senior Energy Market Analyst

Energy Exemplar Pty. Ltd.

Successfully solved and closed ~10 EMEA PLEXOS support cases per month
Reported PLEXOS bugs for tool improvement and interacted with Tier 3 developers
Synthesized, merged and validated the South-Eastern Europe dataset
Conducted fundamentals training for PLEXOS EMEA clients

Mar 2016 - Oct 2019

3 years 8 months

Copenhagen, Denmark

Postdoc

DTU

Led the DTU engagement for the full duration of the EU Horizon 2020 SmartNet project (consortium of 22 partners)
Managed a consortium fund of ~€13 million researching market architecture integrating flexibility and ancillary services provided by DERs (DG and DSM)
Lead author of a Springer book chapter and co-author of open access papers and project presentations
Wrote, compiled and reviewed project deliverables P4 and D4.4
Successfully defended the project at the European Commission

Jan 2010 - Dec 2015

6 years

Leuven, Belgium

Teaching Assistant

UCD & KU Leuven

Held tutorial and lab sessions for students and corrected lab reports
Authored a lab guidance tutorial for other teaching assistants
Worked on the flexibility of household appliances in the Linear project WP 2

Mar 2008 - Jan 2014

5 years 11 months

Zagreb, Croatia

Junior Electrical Engineer Researcher

EIHP Power Transmission and Distribution Department

Co-authored studies on connection terms for distribution-level power plants (technical and regulatory aspects)
Conducted a feasibility study on voltage regulation and reactive power compensation at the transmission level, including Q–V control and a new Q compensation device
Performed preliminary analysis of “Ogorje” and “Zelovo” wind farm connections, detailing technical requirements for system reinforcement and new plant connection feasibility