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Efstratios (Stratis) Batzelis has been a Lecturer with ECS since Apr 2021 and an “Engineering for Development” Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) between 2019-2024. Prior to that, Stratis was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London since Nov 2019 and before that he held an EU Marie-Curie individual fellowship on photovoltaic control & integration from Nov 2017. He obtained his PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2016.
Stratis is an experienced researcher with many IEEE publications and a funding track record of more than £1.5 million. He is a Senior IEEE member, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and an Associate Editor in . He is an advocate of sustainable energy and the fight against climate change. His research interests involve renewable energy technologies and distributed energy resources, mainly solar photovoltaics and inverter-based generation, power electronics control and power system stability.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems design, modeling, control and integration to the power system
- Renewable Energy Resources (RES)
- Electrification and energy access in developing countries
- Intergation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) to the power system
- Control of power electronics and Inverter-based resources (IBRs)
Current research
Funding
- UKRI Early Career Researchers International Collaboration Grant: UNIFORM - Unifying Grid-Following And Grid-Forming Control In Inverter-based Resources, Lead, £200k, 2024-Today
- EU Horizon 2020 Innovation Action: – Renewable Energy EMPOWERing European and InDian communities, Co-lead, £446K, 2021-2024
- RAEng research fellowship: – Addressing the SOLar Integration Challenges in DEVeloping Countries, Lead, £964K, 2019-2024
- EU Marie-Curie individual fellowship: – PhotoVoltaic Control & Integration, Research Fellow, £157K, 2017-2019
- IKY/Siemens postdoctoral fellowship: PV systems: Modern challenges, Research Fellow, £4K, 2016-2017
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Biography
Efstratios (Stratis) Batzelis has been a Lecturer with ECS since Apr 2021 and an “Engineering for Development” Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) between 2019-2024. Prior to that, Stratis was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London since Nov 2019 and before that he held an EU Marie-Curie individual fellowship on photovoltaic control & integration from Nov 2017. He obtained his PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2016.
Stratis is an experienced researcher with many IEEE publications and a funding track record of more than £1.5 million. He is a Senior IEEE member, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and an Associate Editor in . He is an advocate of sustainable energy and the fight against climate change. His research interests involve renewable energy technologies and distributed energy resources, mainly solar photovoltaics and inverter-based generation, power electronics control and power system stability.
Prizes
- Best paper award at NPSC 2020 in Power Electronics & Drives section (2020)
- Nominated for the Student Academic Choice Award for excellent supervision (2018)
- Excellent PhD thesis award, Chorafas Foundation (top two at NTUA) (2016)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (2019)
- Best paper award at the 2023 IEEE PESGM (2023)
- Best paper award at NPSC 2020 in Power Electronics & Drives section (2020)
- Nominated for the Student Academic Choice Award for excellent supervision (2018)
- Excellent PhD thesis award, Chorafas Foundation (top two at NTUA) (2016)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (2019)
- Best paper award at the 2023 IEEE PESGM (2023)