Milica Grahovac

Milica Grahovac

Milica Grahovac is a pioneering technical leader at the forefront of sustainable energy innovation, bridging advanced engineering expertise with strategic policy insights. With a multidisciplinary background spanning mechanical engineering and applied energy economics, she has established herself as a critical thinker in transforming future energy systems. Her scientific work encompasses energy efficiency, integration of energy technologies, distributed energy resources, and load flexibility. She authored numerous technical publications as well as software tools such as a Monte-Carlo statistical simulator, a multi-stakeholder decision making tool, and sets of energy systems control algorithms. She is a leader in policy techno-economic and broad impacts analysis. Milica has a MSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and she holds a PhD in applied energy economy in electrical engineering from the University of Munich in Germany.

Contact Information

Phone: 510-486-7227

Awards

2025 Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement: Tech Transfer -  November 12th 2025

To the Modelica Team, for advancing equation-based modeling, forming a community of developers and users, and creating a library with 3000 validated models that is used world-wide to design and operate HVAC equipment and energy and control systems for data centers, buildings, and districts.