Dimitra Apostolopoulou

Research Fellow

Dimitra is a Research Fellow in the Electricity Research Programme. Before joining OIES she was a Lecturer in the Engineering Department at City, University of London. She was also the Programme Director for the MSc in Renewable Energy and Power Systems Management; a member of the Energy, Sustainability and Net-Zero Research Centre and the Artificial Intelligence Research Centre both at City, University of London.

Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Engineering Department and a Lecturer at Christ Church College at University of Oxford and have worked at the Smart Grid & Technology Department in Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), Chicago, US. She obtained her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Peter Sauer and Prof. Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia; and her M.S. in 2011 from the same institution under the supervision of Prof. George Gross.

She was a member of the IEEE Power and Water Systems Taskforce; the IEEE P2030.7 Standard for the Specification of Microgrid Controllers Working Group; the IEEE P2030.8 Standard for the Testing of Microgrid Controllers Working Group; and the IEEE Distributed Resource Integration Working Group. She has been actively involved in professional service activities at the IEEE Power and Energy Society, being regular reviewer for highly cited conferences and journals. She was a Co-organiser of Risk and Resilience Day 2023, EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub with Dr. Robin Preece from University of Manchester and she have served as a guest Editor in Sustainability and Energies journals. She have been invited to give seminars at various places, such as Imperial College London and King’s College London, UK; Argonne National Laboratory, US; and MINES ParisTech, France.

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