About Me
ABOUT
My name is Oliver Adria, I grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia. I’m an electrical engineering student (update: graduated in early 2010, I’m an engineer now, whoo!) in Cologne, Germany and I work in the area of sustainability policies and renewable energy technologies. I like to write articles (especially in the area of sustainability) for different magazines and I do a lot of presentation design at work but I also do it for fun at home.
INTERESTS
I have a lot of different interests, from running medium/long-distance (my longest distance was the Cologne Marathon in 2009… in school I was always one of the last in anything longer than 800 meters… I was good in sprints and team sports, but they say “my body isn’t shaped for long-distance” - hah! 
). I like to do a lot of other different sports, I love playing football (soccer), I enjoy badminton, basketball, track & field. I like black bread, honey (many types of’em, yumm), green jasmine tea, a lot of stuff from Apple Computers (iPod shuffle, MacBooks, other Mac hardware) and other electronics that might make life comfortable. I like to hang out at my favorite coffee place (though I usually drink tea there) and listen to music from Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Ingrid Michaelson or even The Killers while writing articles or working on presentations. I like to read books on a variety of issues, from presentations, design, computers, engineering, sustainability, environment, technology, running and anything unconventional.
PUBLICATIONS
Here’s some stuff I’ve written or co-written in the past
Software Approach for the Autonomous Inspection Robot MAKRO (scanned printed version, low quality) - Hermann Streich, Oliver Adria; published in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 2004
Dynamic replanning in uncertain environments for a sewer inspection robot - Oliver Adria; Hermann Streich; Joachim Hertzberg; published in International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Volume 1 Number 1 (2004), Vienna, Austria
Standards for Resource Protection for Credit Lending in Asia (German) - Burcu Tuncer, Christa Liedtke, Oliver Adria; published in factorY magazine for sustainable business 03/2006, Wuppertal, Germany
Taking Responsibility! The Lack of Student Engagement and what Politics and Universities can do about it (German) - Oliver Adria, published in Glocalist Review Nr. 199/2008
Reducing the Ecological Rucksack (German) - Michael Kuhndt, Oliver Adria, Ariane Rüdiger; published in German InformationWeek online, July 10th 2008
7 Reasons why you should NOT care about the environment (Ukrainian and Russian) - Oliver Adria, Svyatoslav Rybnikov (translation), satirical article published in Ukrainian Technical Newspaper Nr. 45, 2008
Changing the Light Bulbs is not enough (German) - Oliver Adria, David Birkenfurth; published in sicht.felder 1/2009 (student magazine for interdisciplinarity)
Technological Assessment and Policy Recommendations for Large-scale Peak-shaving Energy Storage in Grids with a High Proportion of Renewable Energy - Oliver Adria; Bachelor thesis, University of Applied Sciences Cologne, February 2010
