Power and Energy Engineering

Florin Iov (IEEE S ’98, M ’04, SM ’06) received the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Brasov University, Romania, in 1993 and a PhD degree from Galati University, Romania in 2003 with a special focus in the modeling, simulation and control of large wind turbines. He was staff member at Galati University, Romania from 1993 to 2001. He was with Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark between 2001 and 2009 where he was mainly involved in research projects regarding grid integration of wind power. From 2010 to 2012, he held a position as Power System Research Specialist in Vestas Wind Systems working with new ancillary services for augmented wind power plants. Since 2013, he is with Institute of Energy Technology focusing on research within smart grids and intelligent energy systems. His research areas cover control and application of electrical machines and power electronic converters for grid integration of renewable energy sources and, operation and control of dispersed generation in modern power systems. He is author or co-author of more than 120 journal/conference papers.