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Maarten Appelman is a PhD Candidate on the topic of Universal Energy Access. He has an academic background in Telecommunication Engineering, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Li-ion Battery Degradation, and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society. For his PhD, he works on socio-technical design for clean cooking, energy justice, history of electricity in Uganda, sustainable design of solar home systems, and capability theories for energy access. Maarten's work can be summarized as trying to make social and ethical considerations technologically feasible, and making technical designs socially sustainable.
Expertise Engineering Energy Engineering Power Quality Solar Home Systems Energy Access Energy Systems Current Profile Lithium Ion Battery Physics Organisations Publications Quality Observations of Solar Home Systems for Rural Electrification (2025) In 2025 IEEE Power Electronics Society International Decentralized Energy Access Symposium, IDEAS 2025 . IEEE. Appelman, M. , Koch, P., Moonen, N. & Popovic, J. https://doi.org/10.1109/IDEAS62193.2025.11157511 The Measures of Power Quality in Energy Access and Cost-Effective Monitoring Tools as an Enabler (2025) In 2025 IEEE Power Electronics Society International Decentralized Energy Access Symposium, IDEAS (Decentralized Energy Access Solutions Workshop (DEAS); Vol. 2025). IEEE. Sulaeman, I., Suryani, A., Appelman, M. , Moonen, N. & Popović, J. https://doi.org/10.1109/IDEAS62193.2025.11157296 Mitigating the Impact of Rapid Load Changes in Rural DC Minigrids for Extended Accessibility (2024) In Proceedings IEEE International Decentralized Energy Access Solutions (IDEAS) Conference (Accepted/In press). Sulaeman, I., Appelman, M. , Moonen, N., Popović, J. & Leferink, F. Underdefined Power Quality in Rural DC Energy Systems (2024) In 2024 IEEE Joint International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal and Power Integrity: EMC Japan/Asia Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, EMC Japan/APEMC Okinawa 2024 - Proceedings (pp. 513-516). IEEE. Appelman, M. , Hartman, T., Popovic, J., Soeiro, T. B. & Moonen, N. https://doi.org/10.34385/proc.82.ThuAM2C.4 Is Technology the Answer to Universal Energy Access? (2023) In 2023 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2023 (pp. 16-19). IEEE. Suryani, A., Appelman, M. , Moonen, N. & Popovic, J. https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC56179.2023.10355000 On the Importance of Power Quality in Solar Home Systems for Energy Access (2023) In 2023 IEEE 7th Global Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference (GEMCCON) (pp. 52-53). IEEE. Appelman, M. , ten Have, B., Moonen, N. & Popović, J. https://doi.org/10.1109/GEMCCON57842.2023.10078203 Universal Energy Access: at the Intersection of Power Electronics, EMC, Philosophy, and Social Sciences (2023) In 2023 IEEE 7th Global Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference (GEMCCON) (pp. 50-51). Article 10078187. IEEE. Appelman, M. , Moonen, N. & Popović, J. https://doi.org/10.1109/GEMCCON57842.2023.10078187 Research profiles 
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