Dr. Aleksandra Lekić

Aleksandra Lekić is an Assistant Professor at TU Delft, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science. She has worked on circuit theory concepts applied to multiport power system analysis, with a special focus on HVDC systems; harmonic stability assessment of the hybrid power systems consisting of the passive and active components; impedance-based MMC, and other VSC modeling. Also, she has developed multiple nonlinear controlling algorithms relying on the Lyapunov theory, and model predictive control methods used for stable and efficient control of switching converters and the systems consisting of renewable sources (like PV panels) and power converters.

Before her tenure at TU Delft, Aleksandra worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT – ELECTA, KU Leuven and in the Institute EnergyVille, Genk, Belgium. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, where she obtained her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering.

Areas of Expertise:

• Circuit Theory
• Control and Stability Analysis
• Hybrid Power Systems
• Power Electronics

Dr. Jose Rueda Torres

José Rueda Torres is an associate professor for Intelligent Electrical Power Grids at the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy, TU Delft, The Netherlands. His current research interests include power system reliability, modeling for stability studies (off-line and real-time digital simulation), optimal control design (local and wide-area), dynamic vulnerability assessment, system identification, probabilistic and artificial intelligent methods, HVDC and FACTs devices, and renewable energy technologies.

He received the Electrical Engineer Diploma (cum laude) from Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador in 2004. In 2009, he received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (mark: outstanding) from the National University of San Juan.

In July 2017, he was elected as chairman of the Working Group on Modern Heuristic Optimization (WGMHO) under the IEEE PES Analytic Methods in Power Systems (AMPS) Committee. He was vice-chair of the WGMHO between July 2014 and July 2017. Since August 2017, he is an associate editor of the Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal (Elsevier). Since October 2017, he is a member of the Technical Committee on Power and Energy Systems of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control). He is a member of the Colegio de Ingenieros Eléctricos y Electrónicos de Pichincha (CIEEPI), a member of the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE), and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Areas of Expertise:

• Power Electronics
• Power System Reliability & Stability
• Optimal Control Design

Dr. Laura Ramirez Elizondo

Laura Ramirez Elizondo is an assistant professor at the DC Systems, Energy Conversion & Storage group. Currently, she is involved in projects related to the integration of renewable sources, and the development, and deployment of direct current distribution grids and microgrids.

In 2003, she received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad de Costa Rica. She graduated with honors from her M.Sc. studies in Electrical Power Systems at the Delft University of Technology in 2007. Laura worked on her Ph.D. project from September 2007 to December 2011 related to the optimization of low voltage distribution networks with multiple energy carriers. In 2013, she was awarded the Erasmus Energy Science Award.

Areas of Expertise:

• Microgrids
• Energy Storage Systems
• Electric Power Distribution

Dr. Milos Cvetkovic

Milos Cvetkovic is an assistant professor at the Delft University of Technology, in the Electrical Sustainable Energy department. He is a specialist in the modeling and simulation of energy systems with a particular focus on electricity grids. His research spans short-term modeling and simulation for control and operation of energy systems to long-term decision-making models for planning purposes.

Before joining Delft University, Milos was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, where he developed new market mechanisms for engaging prosumers in the electricity ecosystem. He obtained his Ph.D. and MSc degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.

Milos is active in several Dutch national and European projects which have focused on integrating more renewable energy into our electricity grids. Some of these projects develop smart controllers for renewable energy resources, others design new market mechanisms.

Areas of Expertise:

• Energy Storage
• Smart Power Grids
• Renewable Energy Resources
• Simulations of Electricity Grids

Dr. Zian Qin

Dr. Zian Qin, IEEE Senior Member, is a tenured Assistant Professor, and university docent 1 (UD1) at TU Delft. His research interests include wide bandgap devices, power electronics-based grids, and Power2X.

Zian Qin received a B.Eng. degree in Automation from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2009, an M.Eng. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2012, and a Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2015. In 2014, he was a Visiting Scientist at Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aalborg University.

Dr. Qin is an IEEE senior member. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, a guest associate editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and a guest associate editor of IEEE Tran Energy Conversion. He is a “distinguished reviewer” for the year 2020 of IEEE Transactions of Industrial Electronics. He serves as the technical program chair of IEEE-ISIE 2020, technical program co-chair of IEEE-COMPEL 2020, and industrial session co-chair of ECCE-Asia 2020.

Areas of Expertise:

• Power Electronics
• Power Quality
• EV Charging
• Energy Storage