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We are pleased to announce the winner of the Electronics Young Investigator Award 2019, Dr. Juan C. Vasquez, a Professor at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University.
Over the last 10 years, Prof. Vasquez has published over 180 papers in international top-tier journals and over 190 papers in international conferences on Microgrids research. His key contributions are based on control, operation, energy management, and deployment of AC–DC Microgrids and Energy Internet. He has been referenced over 14,681 times, and some of his articles have been cited more than 200 times, making a huge impact and acquiring high visibility in Microgrid and smart-grid research communities. Thanks to these achievements, he was recognized by Clarivate Analytics as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2017 and 2018. In 2016, Dr. Vasquez was selected among 18 AAU researchers to receive funding through an exclusive young talent management program, established as part of the initiative “Knowledge for the World”, for his project “The Energy Internet—Integrating Internet of Things into the Smart Grid”. Professor Vasquez is responsible of the AC Microgrid laboratory, the DC Microgrid Laboratory, and a newly established IoT Demonstration Microgrid Laboratory at the Department of Energy Technology, AAU. These proof-ofconcept laboratories constitute the basis for research and teaching inspired by Project-Based Learning (PBL) in the microgrids area, recognized worldwide.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Juan C. Vasquez for a well-deserved prize.
Electronics 2019 Young Investigator Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Tianlong Chen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairperson
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Dr. George A Tsihrintzis
University of Piraeus
Prof. Yong Zhang
UESTC
Prof. Reza K. Amineh
New York Institute of Technology
Prof. Domenico Ursino
Polytechnic University of Marche
Prof. Dr. Luis M. Fernandez-Ramirez
University of Cadiz
Winner
Yongzhi Cheng
Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairperson
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Costas Psychalinos
University of Patras, Physics Department
Prof. Dr. Marco Mussetta
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Enzo Pasquale Scilingo
University of Pisa
Prof. Dr. Luis M. Fernandez-Ramirez
University of Cadiz
Dr. Stefanos Kollias
Dr. Jinjun Feng
Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute
Prof. Elias Stathatos
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of the The Peloponnese
Winner
Kai-Da Xu
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairperson
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. giambattista gruosso
Politecnico di Milano
Dr. Xiongfeng Ma
Tsinghua Unviersity
Prof. Dr. George A Tsihrintzis
University of Piraeus
Winner
Houqiang Fu
Iowa State University, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairperson
Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Xiongfeng Ma
Tsinghua Unviersity
Prof. Boris Andrievsky
Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Elias Stathatos
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of the The Peloponnese
Prof. Dr. Nikolay Hinov
Technical University of Sofia
Prof. Dr. Kiat Seng Yeo
Winner
Amir H. Gandomi
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairperson
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Lucas Lamata
Universidad de Sevilla
Dr. Felix Sunjoo Kim
Prof. Dr. Valentina Emilia Balas
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad
Prof. Dr. Yoichi Hayashi
Meiji University, Dept. Computer Science, Head of AI Lab.
Prof. Yosef Pinhasi
Ariel University
Prof. Erich Leitgeb
TU Graz
Prof. Dr. Jaime Lloret
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Prof. Dongkyun Kim
Winner
Shahar Kvatinsky
Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Technion
Winner
Juan Carlos Vasquez Quintero
Aalborg University
Juan Carlos Vasquez Quintero
Aalborg University
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