Leigh Tesfatsion, emeritus professor, has been appointed Research Professor by Iowa State University, effective March 1, 2018.
She is also the Principal Investigator for a new contract from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with start date March 19, 2018, providing $100,000 additional funding for the completion of additional tasks under an ISU/PNNL collaborative project titled "Development of an Integrated Transmission and Distribution Test System to Evaluate Transactive Energy Systems." The Co-Principal Investigator on this new contract is Dr. Zhaoyu Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ISU.
In addition, Tesfatsion has a new publication:
Leigh Tesfatsion (2018), “Electric Power Markets in Transition: Agent-Based Modeling Tools for Transactive Energy Support.” In Hommes, C., LeBaron, B., Eds. Handbook of Computational Economics 4: Heterogeneous Agent Models. Handbooks in Economics Series, North Holland:Amsterdam, the Netherlands. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574002118300042