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Supergen Energy Networks Hub Researcher Dr Yitian Dai awarded 2026 DAFNI Fellowship
1.06.2026
Supergen Energy Networks Hub researcher Dr Yitian Dai has been selected for the highly competitive 2026 DAFNI (Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) Fellowship programme.
Dr Yitian Dai, a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at The University of Manchester, is one of just 10 Fellows chosen from 116 applicants. Her work focuses on understanding how climate change impacts the resilience of electricity networks.
Through the Fellowship, Dr Dai will develop and share accessible tools and datasets via the DAFNI platform, helping researchers, network operators and policymakers better assess and manage climate-related risks to critical infrastructure. Her project will bring together climate hazard data, asset vulnerability models and simulation workflows to create an integrated evidence base for analysing how electricity networks perform under extreme weather conditions.
Dr Dai’s research, carried out within the Supergen Energy Networks Hub, explores how climate hazards can trigger cascading failures in transmission systems. By making these methodologies more widely accessible, her work aims to support more informed decision-making and strengthen the UK’s energy resilience.
The Fellowship provides funding to support collaboration, knowledge exchange and dissemination, while fostering closer links between academia, industry and government to address national infrastructure challenges.
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