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Fifteen years ago, energy products were sold weeks or months in advance. Today, the energy system has changed drastically. “We moved from weekly products to daily, to 15-minute products, and now down to second-based settlements,” explains Philipp Cüppers, Head of Data Innovation at Vattenfall Hydro Germany.

When discussing electric mobility, people generally think of passenger vehicles; however, some companies are choosing to transition their internal combustion engine fleets to electric vehicles. And while this transition offers benefits such as savings in operating costs, reduced emissions, and tax incentives, it also presents logistical, operational, and technological challenges that must be addressed from…

For the past 25 years, one discipline has been revolutionizing epidemiology: phylodynamics. By using genetic sequences, scientists can study how pathogens evolve. Thanks to mathematics, these data can be coherently organized into phylogenetic trees, with each branch representing a chain of transmission and each leaf representing an individual’s infection. The length of the branches can…