**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Birgitte Bak-Jensen** (senior IEEE member 2012) received her MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and a PhD in Modelling of High Voltage Components in 1992; both from the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. From 1986–1988, she worked at Electrolux Elmotor A/S, Aalborg, Denmark, as an Electrical Design Engineer. She is now Professor MSO in the Intelligent Control of the Power Distribution System at the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, where she has worked since August 1988. Her fields of interest are mainly related to the operation and control of the distribution network grid, including power quality and stability in power systems, and taking the integration of dispersed generation and smart grid issues like demand response into account. Furthermore, multi-energy systems, taking the interaction between the electrical grid and i.e. the heating and transport sector into account, is a key area of her interest. She has participated in many projects concerning the control and operation of small dispersed generation units in the distribution network operated in connected and islanded mode, and the utilization of demand side management, for instance, using electrical vehicles, electrical boilers or heat pumps as energy storages, used for levelling out fluctuations from renewable power units. She is now convenor of Cigre WG C6/1.33 on multi-energy systems.
