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Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Energies 2022 Young Investigator Award is Prof. Dr. Saeed Golestan.
Prof. Dr. Saeed Golestan is an Associate Professor (under assessment) at AAU Energy, Aalborg University (AAU), Aalborg, Denmark. His research interests are in designing control systems for grid-tied power converters, designing grid synchronization and signal processing algorithms/filters for AC power applications, modeling and stability assessment of power electronic-based power systems including wind and PV systems, and the application of quantum computations in solving power systems problem. Prof. Dr. Saeed Golestan received his PhD in 2018 and has an outstanding publication record, and is the principal author of 55 papers in prestigious journals and co-author of 28 journal papers. These articles have received more than 6200 citations. He is a senior member of IEEE, and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on power electronics and the Journal of Energies. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Prof. Dr. Saeed Golestan for his outstanding achievements.
As the awardee, Prof. Dr. Saeed Golestan will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31 December 2023 in Energies after peer-review, and an electronic certificate.
We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.
Energies Editorial Office
Energies 2022 Young Investigator Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Domenico Mazzeo
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yanbo Wang
Aalborg University, Denmark
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba
Chairman
University Niccolò Cusano, Italy
Prof. Dr. Paulo Santos
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Pawel Rozga
Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Skrzypkowski
AGH University of Krakow, Poland
Prof. Dr. Mohsin Jamil
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Dr. Davide Astolfi
University of Perugia, Italy
Winner
Yi Zheng
Northeastern University, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba
Chairman
University Niccolò Cusano, Italy
Prof. Dr. Jude Onwudili
Aston University, UK
Prof. Dr. Rui Xiong
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Skrzypkowski
AGH University of Krakow, Poland
Dr. Eliseu Monteiro
University of Porto, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Donato Morea
University of Cagliari, Italy
Winner
Saeed Golestan
Aalborg University, Denmark
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba
Chairman
University Niccolò Cusano, Italy
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Skrzypkowski
AGH University of Krakow, Poland
Dr. Paul Hellier
University College London, UK
Prof. Dr. Rui Xiong
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Eliseu Monteiro
University of Porto, Portugal
Winner
Christopher H. T. Lee
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Award Committee
Prof. Rui Xiong
Chairman
Beijing Institute of Technology
Dr. Yair Wiseman
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Prof. Dr. Anibal T. de Almeida
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Martin Riera-Guasp
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Prof. Dr. King Jet Tseng
Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Winner
Xiaosong Hu
Chongqing University, China
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Bryce Richards
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Prof. Dr. Leonardo Chamorro
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Prof. Dr. Fabio Polonara
Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Prof. Dr. Marco Marengo
University of Brighton, UK
Prof. Dr. Benjamin C. McLellan
Kyoto University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Kyung Chun Kim
Pusan National University, Republic of Korea
Winner
Praveen Linga
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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