Amin Mohammadpour Shotorbani Editor

Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Ph.D., is a Professor with the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at Aalborg University, Denmark. Before joining the University of Tabriz, he was a research associate at the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy at the University of Calgary. He obtained MSc and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology. His main research interests are renewable energies, microgrid systems, and smart grids. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 technical publications in his domain of interest, more than 30 book chapters, and 10 books. Amin Mohammadpour Shotorbani is a postdoctoral research fellow in energy systems at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in Smart Grid technologies and nonlinear control methods to microgrids, FACTS, VSC-HVDC, HV-MTDC Grid, Renewable Integration, WADC and WAMS. His experience includes designing robust adaptive nonlinear control using CLF, CVLF, SMC, TSMC, FOC, and developing adaptive observer techniques for power system applications. He has also been involved in the implementation of distributed optimization techniques and designing decentralized control for power system applications. Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam PhD, SMIEEE, received the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in Power Systems Engineering from the University of Tehran, in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor and the vice leader of PESYS and iGRIDS research groups at the Department of Energy (AAU Energy), Aalborg University, where he is also the coordinator for the Integrated Energy Systems Laboratory (IES-Lab). He has published more than 200 technical articles, 4 books, and 8 book chapters. His research interests include planning, control, and operation management of microgrids, renewable/hybrid power systems, and integrated energy systems with appropriate market mechanisms. He was a recipient of the 2020 DUO-India Fellowship Award, the DANIDA Research Fellowship grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, in 2018, the IEEE-CS Outstanding Leadership Award 2018 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), and the 2017 IEEE-CS Outstanding Service Award (Exeter-UK).