Courtney Pailing is a project manager within the Cyber System Assessment Group. She collaborates with project leaders, utility partners, and solution providers to deliver cybersecurity research with a focus on evaluating and integrating capabilities and security solutions for a decarbonized grid. Pailing previously served as technical project leader working on the Energy Materials Network Data Hubs, the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) User Facility operations, and the ESIF Research Data System.

Research Interests

Market forces for critical infrastructure investments

Secure distributed energy resource scenarios

Cybersecurity for the decarbonized grid

Education

M.A., Global Affairs, University of Denver

B.A., International Studies, Colorado State University

Professional Experience

Product Owner, Maxar Technologies, Inc. (2021–2023)

Technical Project Lead, NREL (2010–2021)

Financial Coordinator, University of Denver (2004–2010)

Associations and Memberships

Project Management Institute member

Scaled Agile member

Featured Work

Energy Material Network Data Hubs: Software Platforms for Advancing Collaborative Energy Materials Research, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (2021)

Open-Source Framework for Data Storage and Visualization of Real-Time Experiments, Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (2020)

Data Storage and Visualization Solutions for Real Time Simulations and Experiments, NREL Presentation (2020)