Juan Manuel Boullosa Novo

Wind & Renewables Operations Engineer | Co-founder at Zentus (Stanford Doerr Sustainability Accelerator) | Predictive Maintenance · BESS · Applied ML | Spain / remote EU

Vigo, Galicia, Spain

About

Wind energy engineer specialising in renewables operations, predictive maintenance, and applied machine learning. Currently CTO and Technical Co-founder at Zentus, a Stanford Doerr Sustainability Accelerator portfolio company. 🌬️ Wind operations: predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, remaining useful life 🔋 Energy storage: battery dispatch optimisation across European and US power markets 📊 Machine learning: transformer-based forecasting, time-series, uncertainty quantification ⚙️ Real-time control: embedded systems, LabVIEW, cRIO/FPGA M.Sc. Engineering Physics (Wind Energy specialisation), University of Oldenburg. Master's thesis in collaboration with NREL at the University of Colorado Boulder. Four years of research at ForWind. Open to roles in wind, renewables operations, asset performance, or applied ML for energy — based in Spain or remote across Europe. 📧 [email protected]

Experience

  • Co-Founder at Zentus.io
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Building physics-informed AI to optimize energy trading and storage operations in volatile renewable energy markets. Backed by Stanford's Sustainability Accelerator.

  • Short-Term Scholar at University of Colorado Boulder
    Aug 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Completed advanced research on spatio-temporal wind direction forecasting for wind farm wake steering control using Transformer-based Deep Learning Methods.

  • Research Assistant at ForWind - Center for Wind Energy Research
    Nov 2020 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Currently working mainly using National Instruments' LabVIEW programming environment to design and test communication and control systems using integrated computer compactRIO with FPGA and openCAN communication to be able to interact and control model wind turbines as well as similar testing hardware.

  • Student Internship at ForWind - Center for Wind Energy Research
    Jul 2019 - May 2020 · 11 mos

    Collaborated designing a control system software for experimental model wind turbines in the windlab programming with Matlab and the LabVIEW software environment and cRIO with FPGA hardware. It involved applying convex optimisation algorithms in real time. Information detailed in my bachelor thesis.

  • PR Assistant, Developer and Lead Designer at HyperPod
    Oct 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Hyperloop engineering group at the University of Oldenburg and University of Applied Sciences Emden-Leer is taking part in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition. A prototype is being built pushing the limits designing a futuristic high-speed transportation system.