Distinguished Lecture Series : Microgrids and Renewable Energy Systems

Josep M. Guerrero (S’01–M’04–SM’08–FM’15) received the B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering, the M.S. degree in electronics engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, in 1997, 2000, and 2003, respectively. Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, where he is responsible for the Microgrid Research Program. From 2014 he has been a Chair Professor with Shandong University, Jinan, China. From 2015, he has been a Distinguished Guest Professor with Hunan University, Changsha, China. From 2016, he has been a Visiting Professor Fellow with Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., and a Guest Professor with the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 500 journal papers in the fields of microgrids and renewable energy systems, which have been cited more than 30 000 times. He has notably contributed to the study on “distributed power systems and microgrids.” His research interests are oriented to different microgrid aspects, including power electronics, distributed energy-storage systems, hierarchical and cooperative control, energy management systems, smart metering and the Internet-of-Things for ac–dc microgrid clusters and islanded minigrids, and, more recently, specially focused on maritime microgrids for electrical ships, vessels, ferries, and seaports. Prof. Guerrero is an Associate Editor for a number of IEEE journals. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION from 2014–2015, and the Best Paper Prize of the IEEE-PES in 2015. Furthermore, he was the recipient of the Best Paper Award of the Journal of Power Electronics in 2016. During five consecutive years, from 2014 to 2018, he was awarded by Thomson Reuters as Highly Cited Researcher.