Future Modern Distribution Networks Resilience

Mohammad Taghi Ameli received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Technical College of Osnabrück, Germany, in 1988, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He is a Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering and the chair of Research Institute for Electrical Networks at Shahid Beheshti University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Research and Technology in Electrical industry (IJRTEI), since 2020. He was also the General Director of the Iran Research and Technology Institute for Electric Machines for three years. His research interests include operation, planning, and control of power and energy systems, integration of renewable energies to the energy system, and smart grids. Kamran Jalilpoor received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran, in 2018. He is currently working as a senior research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, SBU. He is the author of several top journal and conference papers in the field of distribution system resilience. His research interest is oriented to different aspects of power systems resilience, including catastrophe risk modeling, damage assessment, disaster response and recovery and optimization methods. Sasan Azad is a Ph.D student in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and a researcher at the Electrical Networks Institute of the Shahid Beheshti University. He obtained his BSc degree from the Razi University of Kermanshah and his MSc degree from the Shahid Beheshti University. His main areas of interest are the security and voltage stability of power systems, smart grids, and electric vehicles. Mohammadreza Daneshvar is a Research Associate with the Smart Energy Systems Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tabriz. He is the editor of more than 40 journal and conference papers in the field of multi-energy systems, grid modernization, transactive energy, and optimizing the multi-carrier energy grids. He is the author and editor of three books with Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley-IEEE. He serves as an active reviewer with IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and IOS Press, and was ranked among the top 1% of reviewers in Engineering and Cross-Field based on Publons global reviewer database. His research interests include smart grids, transactive energy, energy management, renewable energy sources, multi-carrier energy systems, grid modernization, electrical energy storage systems, microgrids, energy hubs, machine learning and deep learning, blockchain technology, and optimization techniques. Mohammad Sadegh Sepasian was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1967. He received the B.Sc. degree from Tabriz University (Iran) in 1990 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tehran University and Tarbiat Modares University (Iran) in 1993 and 1999, respectively. Since 1994, he has been with Abbaspour Technical and Engineering Department, Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran where he is currently an associate professor. During this period, he has had supervising more than 31 MSc and 7 PhD students while at the same time, he has had several important responsibilities such as Vice-Chancellor in Education of electrical department and Head of Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University. He also acted as the Senior Researcher for the Iran Power System Engineering Research Center (IPSERC), affiliated to Tarbiat modares University. He managed several national projects for the Iranian power grid. His research interests are distribution networks, power system planning, electric vehicles, and smart grids. 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. Miadreza Shafie-khah received his first PhD in electrical engineering from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. He received his second PhD in electromechanical engineering and first postdoc from the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilha, Portugal. He received his second postdoc from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. Currently, he is a Professor (tenure-track) at the University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland. He is an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Access, an editor of the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE), an Associate Editor for IET-RPG, and the guest Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE OAJPE. He is a Top Scientist in the Research.com Ranking in Engineering and Technology, and he has won five Best Paper Awards at IEEE Conferences. His research interests include electricity markets, power system optimization, demand response, electric vehicles, price and renewable forecasting and smart grids.