IEEE EPPC Working Group on Energy

Dr. ir. Kenneth Bruninx is an associate professor Energy Transition & Industry at the Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management of TU Delft and a research associate at KU Leuven. His research focusses on the modeling of energy systems and their link to energy policies, regulation and markets on the national and European level. Currently, dr. Bruninx leads research in several national and international research projects, such as HySUCCESS (GroenvermogenNL), MODES (NWO), WinHy (NWO) and CoDeF (Horizon Europe). He serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy & Regulation and is a board member of EERA’s JP on Energy System Integration.

Ana is currently the Head of the Team "Cooperation and Compliance" at the System Operations Division of 50Hertz. Before, she has worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at the System Operations Division of 50Hertz and was the Convener of the Steering Group Operational Framework under the ENTSO-E System Operations Committee. With her deep knowledge on existing and upcoming European electricity regulations, she does not only keep advising her company but also actively contributing to the design of the operational framework necessary for a safe operation of the energy system in Europe.

She is currently the 50Hertz representative at the ENTSO-E System Operations Committee. Since 2011, she has participated in the development, implementation and compliance monitoring of the ENTSO-E Network Codes and the Regional Group Continental Europe Operation Handbook. Furthermore, she has been actively involved in the design of regional processes for a secure operation of the electricity grid in Europe taking place between ENTSO-E and Regional Security Coordinators such as TSCNET and Coreso.

Ana is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has been an elected and appointed volunteer with special focus on Industry Engagement as well as Women in Engineering (WIE) since 2015, holding several leadership positions.

Ana received her degree in electrical engineering from the Comillas University-ICAI in Madrid, Spain, in 2010. In her diploma thesis she analysed the competitiveness indicators in the Iberian Electricity Market while doing at the same time an internship in the Energy Management Direction of Iberdrola.

Dr. Enrique (Henk) GAXIOLA holds twelve patents, published 62 papers, and is a Dutch Royal Institution of Engineers and IEEE Senior Member. As electrical (magnet) engineer at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), France, published benchmarked superconducting coils' insulation performance as manufactured by Domestic Agencies in China, Europe, and USA, with awarded certificate of achievement at IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference. Before joining ITER his research was on supergrids, smartgrids, HVDC, DC Circuit Breakers, FACTS and Grid Access leading energy infrastructures EU-Projects - IRENE-40 future European energy networks & AFTER black-out prevention - as senior key expert engineer in power systems technologies at Siemens AG, Germany, was project lead for the Super Proton Synchrotron extraction kicker systems for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Neutrino to Grand Sasso (CNGS) projects at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, and diagnostics engineer for Xenon automotive & fluorescent lamps gas discharge lighting research projects at Philips, The Netherlands. Dielectric Breakdown in Insulating Gases; Space Charge Effects and Non-Uniform Fields Ph.D. dissertation in 1999 and M.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1994 at the High Voltage & EMC Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Efthymios Karangelos is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Power Systems within the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin. Efthymios received the Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2005), and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manchester, U.K. in Power Systems Engineering & Economics (2007) and Electrical Engineering (2012) respectively. Between 2012 - 2024, he held a researcher position at the Montefiore Institute, University of Liege, Belgium. His research focuses on novel techno-economic concepts, methods and tools for cyber-physical electric power system planning and operation under uncertainty.

Antonello Monti received his M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1989 and 1994 respectively. He started his career in Ansaldo Industria and then moved in 1995 to Politecnico di Milano as Assistant Professor. In 2000 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of South Carolina (USA) as Associate and then Full Professor. Since 2008 he is the director of the Institute for Automation of Complex Power System within the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University. Dr. Monti is author or co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed papers published in international Journals and in the proceedings of International conferences. He is a Senior member of IEEE, Associate Editor of the IEEE System Journal, Associate Editor of IEEE Electrification Magazine, member of the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal SEGAN, and member of the founding board of the Springer Journal “Energy Informatics”. Dr. Monti is the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award.

Paolo Attilio Pegoraro received the M.Sc. (summa cum laude) degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2015 to 2018 he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, where he is currently Associate Professor of Instrumentation and Measurement.

He has authored or co-authored over 140 scientific papers. His research interests include the development of new measurement techniques for modern power networks, with attention to synchronized measurements and state estimation.

Dr. Pegoraro is a member of IEEE IMS TC 39 (Measurements in Power Systems) and of IEC TC 38/WG 47. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Dr. Pegoraro is the General Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS).

John Prousalidis was born in Athens (Greece) in 1968. He received his M.Sc. (1991) and PhD (1997) degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). In 2001 he joined the Academic Staff of the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of NTUA in the scientific field of “Marine Electrical and Electronic Engineering”, (currently Full Professor). He is the author/co-author of 4 books, about 100 papers, reviewer in IEEE, IET, Elsevier, and IMarEST journals. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, IEEE, IMarEST, member of the board of the Hellenic Joint Branch of RINA/IMarEST, and member of the Publication Supervisory Board of IMarEST Publications. Since April 2020 he is the vice-chairman of the IEEE Marine Power Systems Coordinating Committee (IEEE-MSCC). His scientific interests include ship electric propulsion, All Electric Ship, green ships, alternative fuels, cold ironing, smart ports, HVDC/HVAC submersible interconnections.

Felipe Requejo Siguenza received a degree in Industrial Engineering in 1990 from Universidad Politécnica of Madrid. He has developed his career in the consulting business for the energy sector, helping companies in achieving their objectives in projects related to their business transformation (strategy, operations and technology/digital) of different areas: retail, energy management, asset management, and financial, procurement and corporate functions.

He has had top management roles: Deloitte Global Leader for Power, Utilities and Renewables sector (2012-2021), Managing Partner of Energy and Resources Industry in Deloitte Spain (2015-2022), member of the Board of Partners for Deloitte Spain (2013-2015), Managing Partner for Innovation in Deloitte Spain (2015-2022).

Konstantin was ENTSO-E’s first Secretary-General (2009-17). He built up the Brussels Secretariat of the European Network of TSOs for Electricity, managing strong growth, and meeting legal mandates (network codes, ten-year plans etc.). From 2017-24, he consulted part-time as a Director at Guidehouse, and chaired CIGRE’s Study Committee C1 (power system development&economics, 2014-20) and the European Technology&Innovation Platform ‘Smart Networks for Energy Transition’ (2016-18) for ENTSO-E. Before 2009, he held leadership positions in German utility associations (DVG, VDN, BDEW), worked 9 years at PG&E, USA, and 1 year in Mexico. He holds Operations Research M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech.