Profile

Appointments

• Associate Professor, Wind and Energy Systems, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
• Head of Studies, MSc in Sustainable Energy Technologies, DTU
• Scientific director, DTU-TotalEnergies Excellence Center, Denmark
• Operating agent in IEA Wind Task 50 on Hybrid Power Plants

Research

• Wind Energy
• Hybrid Power Plants
• Renewable Hybrid Plants
• Integration of Renewable Generations in Power System
• Power Systems Balancing
• Weather dependency of Power Systems
• Active Distribution Network

Teaching & Education

• Coordinator - MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology- Wind Energy study line
• 46060 : Hybrid Power Plant Design Project 
• 46W47 : Hybrid Power Plants
• 46230 : Power system balancing with large scale wind power
• 46W27 : Grid connection and integration of wind power
• Individual courses :
  • Hybrid Wind Power Plant
  • Optimization in Wind Energy
  • Modelling and control of wind and solar power plants

Research Projects

Currently working in 11 national/international research projects. Previously worked in 10 research projects which have now been completed.

• Operating agent in IEA Wind Task 50 on Hybrid Power Plants
• DTEC project GREAT on grid services from converter-connected technologies
• Horizon Europe project DTWO on the digital twin of power and energy systems
• GINP H2BRIDGE project on Indo-Danish Bilateral Research Initiative on Digitalized Green Hydrogen Ecosystems
• Horizon Europe project HAVEN on Hybrid Energy Storage System
• Horizon Europe project SolarX on optimization and economic assessment of SolarX technology
• Horizon Europe project TwinSolar on energy system modelling with high share of solar
• DTEC project Hybrid Power Plants Lifecycle Project
• EUDP project REALISE on Hybrid Power Plant design and operation
• EUDP project HybridStorage on hybridisation of different storage technologies
• MSCA-ITN project WinGrid on grid support from wind and hybrid power plants
• Indo-Danish IFD project HYBRIDize on sizing and operation of hybrid power plants
• EU H2020 project FarmConners on wind power control
• EU H2020 project TotalControl on wind power control
• Forskel project NetVind on active distribution network
• Forskel project NSON-DK on power system balancing
• Forskel project OffshoreWake on impacts of wakes on power system balancing
• EU InterReg project Baltic InteGrid on wind power integration in Baltic countries
• EU FP7 project iTESLA on power system resilience

PhD Supervisions

• Mohammad Bahmani: Integration of balancing markets in the modelling of sector-coupled energy systems (Supervisors: M. Koivisto, K. Das)
• Katarina Obradovic: Physical and Electrical Design of Hybrid Power Plants (Supervisors: P-E Rethore, K. Das, S. Røpke, M. El Sied, N. Dkhili)
• Aivaras Celna: Robust Control and Stability of Multi-vendor & Multi-technology Hybrid Power Plants (Supervisors: K. Das, P.Sørensen, M. Gryning, M. B. Dowlatabadi)
• Soheil Pouraltafi-Kheljan: Operation and control of Hybrid Power Plants including Energy Management System (Supervisors: P. Sørensen, K. Das, M. El Sied, M. A. Rahmani)
• Charbel Assaad: Sizing of Hybrid Wind Power Plants Considering Operational Strategies (Supervisors: K. Das, J. P. Murcia Leon, P. Sørensen, S. Ghazouani)
• Fatemeh Shahnazian: Control of Hybrid Power Plants connected to weak grids (Supervisors: P. Sørensen, K. Das, A. D. Hansen, R. Yan)
• Rujie Zhu: Optimization and Control of Wind, Solar, and Storage in Hybrid Power Plants (Supervisors: P. Sørensen, K. Das, A. D. Hansen) - Completed
• Aeishwarya Baviskar: Wind power plant support for weather-dependent active distribution networks (Supervisors: A. D. Hansen, K. Das,  M. Koivisto) - Completed
• Juan-Andres Perez-Rua: Design and optimization of electrical infrastructures in offshore wind power clusters (Supervisors: N. Cutululis, M. Stolpe, K. Das) - Completed

Professional Activities

• Editor - Energies: Special issue on "Coordinated Control of Wind Power in Power Systems with a Large Share of Renewables"
• PhD Evaluation - Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
• Task Group
  • Operating agent on IEA Wind Task on "Hybrid Power Plant"
  • Working Group Member - WindEurope: System Integration "Hybrid Power Plants"
  • Joint Working Group - Member of CIGRE JWG C6/C2.34: "Flexibility provision from Distributed Energy Resources"
    
• Advisory Committee
  • International Hybrid Power Systems Workshop
    
  • 1st International Conference on Large-Scale Grid Integration of Renewable Energy in India
    
  • 14th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific and Energy Engineering Conference
    
• Membership
  • IEA Wind, Member (Task 25: Design and operation of power systems with large amounts of wind power, Task 41: Distributed Wind)
    
  • CIGRE, Member
    
  • IEEE, Senior Member (Power & Energy Society)