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Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2025
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SGSE 2025 Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mohamed Benbouzid

University of Brest, France

IEEE IAS Fellow, IET Fellow

Mohamed Benbouzid (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, Grenoble, France, in 1994, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches degree from the University of Amiens, Amiens, France, in 2000.,After receiving the Ph.D. degree, he joined the University of Amiens, where he was an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering. Since September 2004, he has been with the University of Brest, Brest, France, where he is currently a Full Professor of electrical engineering. He is also a Distinguished Professor and a 1000 Talent Expert with Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China. His main research interests and experience include analysis, design, and control of electric machines; variable-speed drives for traction, propulsion, and renewable energy applications; and fault diagnosis of electric machines.,Prof. Benbouzid is a fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Energy Conversion and the Applied Sciences (MDPI) Section on Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. He is a Subject Editor of the IET Renewable Power Generation.

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Prof. Zhe Chen

Aalborg University, Danmark

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow

Zhe Chen (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from the Northeast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering, Jilin, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Durham, Durham, U.K. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also the Leader of the Wind Power System Research Program, Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, and the Danish Principle Investigator for Wind Energy of Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research. His research areas include power systems, power electronics and electric machines, main current research interests are wind energy, power electronic based modern power system and integrated multi energy systems. He has led many research projects and has more than 800 publications in his technical field with a google citation more than 23000, H index 71. He was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, U.K., and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.

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Prof. Farhad Shahnia

Murdoch University, Australia

Speech Title: Microgrids and Virtual Power Plants: Future of Renewable Rich Smart Grids

Professor Farhad Shahnia received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently a Professor at Murdoch University. Before that, he was a Lecturer at Curtin University (2012-15), a research scholar at QUT (2008-11), and an R&D engineer at the Eastern Azarbayjan Electric Power Distribution Company, Iran (2005-08). He is currently a Fellow member of Engineers Australia, Senior Member of IEEE, and member of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.
Farhad’s research falls under Distribution networks, Microgrid and Smart grid concepts. He has authored one book and 11 book chapters and 250+ peer-reviewed scholarly articles in international conferences and journals, as well as being an editor of 8 books. Farhad has won 5 Best Paper Awards in various conferences and has also received the IET Premium Award for the Best Paper published in the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution journal in 2015. One of his articles was listed under the top-25 most cited articles in the Electric Power System Research Journal in 2015 while one of his 2015 journal articles has been listed under the top-5 most read articles of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was the recipient of the Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award from Curtin University in 2015 and the Australia-China Young Scientist Exchange Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2016.
Farhad is currently a Subject Editor, Deputy Subject Editor, and Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Access, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Smart Grid, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and International Transaction on Electrical Energy Systems and has served 40+ conferences in various roles such as General, Technical, Program, Publication, Publicity, Award, Sponsorship, and Special Session Chairs.
Farhad has led the IEEE Western Australia Section as the 2020-2021 Chair, and was the 2019 Founding Chair of the IEEE Western Australia Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Chapter. He was the 2023 Vice-chair of the IES’s Technical Committees on Smart Grids.

Abstract: Electricity systems around the world are experiencing a radical transition as the consequence of replacing fossil fuels, used for electricity production, by sustainable and cleaner energies. The growing penetration of renewable energies requires smarter techniques capable of handling the uncertainties of these intermittent sources. Along with this change, traditionally centralised power systems are also converting into distributed self-sufficient systems, often referred to as microgrids, that can operate independently. Virtual power plants are frameworks under which microgrids can be deployed within communities and enable energy transaction amongst retailers, customers and private investors. This talk will focus on the role of microgrids and virtual power plants in energy transition plans, and will discuss their benefits and challenges of microgrids and virtual power plants for effective energy transition. The talk will focus more on what initiatives need to be taken to advance their uptake.

SGSE 2025 Invited Speaker

Dr. Jing Hao

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Speech Title: Design Strategies for High-Temperature Polymer Dielectrics in Capacitive Energy Storage

Jing Hao is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Electric Power Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, and her Ph.D. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, also in Electrical Engineering. Her research focuses on advanced dielectric materials, with particular interest in high-temperature polymers for capacitive energy storage, cable insulation evaluation, and dielectric property characterization. Dr. Hao has published several peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Advanced Materials, High Voltage, and IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. Her current work aims to develop next-generation high-temperature polymer dielectrics capable of delivering reliable performance under extreme operating conditions.

Abstract: Polymer film capacitors are widely utilized in electrical and electronic systems owing to their fast charge–discharge capability, mechanical flexibility, scalability to high voltages, and excellent tolerance to strong electric fields. However, the growing demand for capacitors that function reliably in high-temperature environments, such as those found in hybrid electric vehicles, aerospace systems, and deep-well oil and gas exploration, has highlighted the limitations of current materials. Commercial high-temperature polymers like PEN, PEEK, PEI, and PI achieve improved thermal stability by incorporating rigid and bulky phenyl groups into their backbones. Despite this advantage, the resulting π–π stacking interactions narrow the bandgap, thereby degrading dielectric performance under elevated temperatures. This presentation will focus on molecular design strategies aimed at decoupling the conventional trade-off between thermal stability and high-field dielectric performance. Emphasis will be placed on the development of next-generation high-temperature polymers capable of maintaining reliable capacitive energy storage in extreme operating conditions.

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SGSE 2025 Keynote Speakers