Author Biographies

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Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam is currently an Associate Professor and Leader of the Intelligent Energy Systems and Flexible Markets (iGRIDS) Research Group, Department of Energy (AAU Energy), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, where he is also acting as the Vice-Leader of Power Electronic Control, Reliability and System Optimization (PESYS) and the Coordinator of Integrated Energy Systems Laboratory (IES-Lab). He has authored/co-authored more than 300 technical articles, 8 books and 19 book chapters in the field. His research interests include planning, control and operation management of microgrids, renewable/hybrid power systems, and integrated energy systems with appropriate market mechanisms. Dr. Anvari-Moghaddam is the Editor-in-Chief of the Academia Green Energy journal, and is an Associate Editor for several leading journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, and IEEE Power Engineering Letters. He is the Chair of IEEE Denmark and a Member of the IEC SC/8B- Working Group (WG3 & WG6), as well as a Technical Committee Member of several IEEE PES/IES/PELS and CIGRE WGs. He was the recipient of the 2020 and 2023 DUO–India and SPARC Fellowship Awards, DANIDA Research Fellowship grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark in 2018 and 2021, IEEE-CS Outstanding Leadership Award 2018 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), and the 2017 IEEE-CS Outstanding Service Award (Exeter-U.K.).
Saeed Peyghami received their B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Power Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011, 2013, and 2017 respectively. From 2017 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include reliability and risk assessment in modern power systems, control and stability of power electronics based power systems, and Quantum computing applications in power systems.
Frede Blaabjerg got his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of Power Electronics and Drives in 1998 at AAU Energy. He has been an honoris causa at the University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania, since 2017 and at Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Estonia, since 2018. His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality, and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 800 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of eight monographs and editor of fourteen books in power electronics and its applications. He has received 42 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019, and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. In 2019-2020, he served as a President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Since 2020, he has been the chairman of the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy. He was also nominated in 2014–2019 by Thomson Reuters to be among the 250 most-cited researchers in engineering in the world.
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