Efstratios BATZELIS, PhD

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1 Efstratios BATZELIS, PhD Talbot Road, London, W2 5JN (UK) EDUCATION PhD in electrical engineering NTUA, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Greece Awarded the Chorafas award for being in the top two dissertations of NTUA at 2016 Thesis title: Modelling and control of photovoltaic systems under partial shading conditions MSc in energy and power management NTUA, Interdepartmental program, Greece MEng in electrical and computer engineering TUC, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Greece RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2017 Present Marie Curie Individual Research Fellow at Imperial College London, UK Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Control and Power Group Marie Curie fellowship: PVCI Photovoltaic control & integration Derivation of control schemes for PV systems that permit provision of ancillary services to the electric grid Development of coordinated frequency and voltage control strategies for power systems 2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London, UK Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Control and Power Group Project: JUICE Joint UK-India clean energy centre Simulation of power systems with significant photovoltaic penetration Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NTUA, Greece School of Electrical and Computer Engineering IKY/Siemens fellowship: PV systems: Modern challenges Development of PV system models operating under uniform illumination and partial shading conditions Research Assistant at NTUA, Greece School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Project: ANTI-SiC Design and development of a solar inverter employing silicon carbide transistors Design and development of a 5 kw grid-tie PV inverter Mainly engaged with the control and firmware of the system Page 1 of 5

2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching assistant in 2 courses at NTUA, Greece: Electronics I (2nd year MEng), Industrial electronics (MSc) Teaching assistant in 3 courses at NTUA, Greece: Advanced topics in power electronics (PhD), Power electronics I (3rd year MEng), Power electronics II (4th year MEng) Laboratory assistant in 1 course at NTUA, Greece: Power electronics I (3rd year MEng course) Laboratory assistant in 1 course at NTUA, Greece: Industrial electronics (3rd year MEng course) ACADEMIC SUPERVISION 2017 Student Academic Choice Awards for best supervision at Imperial College 2017-Present Supervised/supervising 2 MSc and 1 MEng student at Imperial College London, UK: Volt-VAR optimisation in distribution power systems with high photovoltaic penetration, Development of a control scheme for hybrid Photovoltaic-Batteries system to provide ancillary services to the electric grid, Literature review and comparative assessment of dynamic models of photovoltaic systems for power system studies 2017-Present Interviewed 4 PhD students at Imperial College London, UK Co-supervised 1 MSc and 4 MEng students at NTUA, Greece: Study and empirical expressions for partially shaded photovoltaic arrays (top thesis in the MSc programme), Analysis of amorphous silicon photovoltaic modules under partial shading conditions, Power reserves control for photovoltaic systems, Derivation of explicit expressions for the maximum power points of a partially shaded photovoltaic string, Comparative assessment of maximum power point tracking algorithms for photovoltaic systems under partial shading conditions AWARDS & GRANTS Marie Curie fellowship for postdoc research at Imperial College London, European Commission (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 Marie-Currie action) 2017 Student Academic Choice Awards for best supervision, Imperial College Fellowship for postdoc research at NTUA, IKY/Siemens program Award for excellent PhD thesis, Chorafas Foundation (top two at NTUA) Scholarship for PhD studies, IKY (Siemens Program) Awards (x4) for excellent journal paper, Thomaedion Institution 2012 Award for excellence in MEng studies, Technical Chamber of Greece Scholarship for MSc studies, Propontis Foundation 2011 Award for excellence in MSc studies, Kritiki Estia Foundation 2010 Award for excellence in MEng studies, IKY (1 st place) Awards (x3) for excellence in MEng studies, TUC 2004 Award in the Hellenic Mathematical Association competition Page 2 of 5

3 COMPLEMENTARY SKILLS Grant writing Project management Scientific writing Presentation Teamwork Independent researcher Language Digital Competence Awarded 1 scholarship and 2 fellowships (Marie-Curie fellowship included) through highly competitive proposal writing competition. Have written 1 industrial grant and writing 1 EPSRC grant. Successfully managed/managing 2 fellowship projects: following deadlines, preparing reports/deliverables, progress monitoring, risk assessment Intensively published in IEEE journals, fist author in most papers, soleauthor paper Presented in several international conferences and gave talks at a few research institutions Successfully worked in a team: ANTI-SiC project ( , 3 colleagues), JUICE project (2017, several partners in UK and India) Carried out independent research, first author in most papers, papers without supervisors/advisors, successful independent fellowship proposals Proficiency in English (C2 level: BULATS test 92/100, TOEIC test 955/955), Greek (native speaker) Excellent programming in computers and microcontrollers, proficient user of software: MATLAB, MATLAB/Simulink, PVsyst, Microsoft Office, LaTeX OTHER INFORMATION Peer-reviewer IEEE Transactions on {Sustainable Energy, Energy Conversion, Industrial Electronics}, IEEE journal of Photovoltaics, IEEE PES Letters, IET Power Electronics, Elsevier Solar Energy, Wiley Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, MDPI Energies and many other journals and conferences Memberships IEEE, Technical Chamber of Greece, Marie Curie Alumni Association Military Service Fulfilled at Driving license B PUBLICATIONS 12 journal papers (9 in IEEE journals, first author in 10, single author in 1) 13 conference papers (first author in 6, 1 without supervisor) 212 total citations (h-index: 5, i10-index: 5, Google scholar) Contribution in drafting of a book chapter Publications Citations JOURNAL PAPERS [J1] Efstratios Batzelis, Georgios Anagnostou, Ian Cole, Thomas Betts, and Bikash Pal, A State-Space Dynamic Model for Photovoltaic Systems with Full Ancillary Services Support, under review in IEEE Sustain. Energy. Efstratios Batzelis, Georgios Anagnostou, and Bikash Pal, A state-space representation of irradiance-driven dynamics in two-stage photovoltaic systems, IEEE J. Photovolt., vol. 8, no. 4, pp , Jul Page 3 of 5

4 [J2] Efstratios I. Batzelis, Stavros A. Papathanassiou, and Bikash C. Pal, PV System Control to Provide Active Power Reserves under Partial Shading Conditions, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., early access, Apr. 2018, DOI: /TPEL [J3] Efstratios I. Batzelis, Simple PV performance equations theoretically well-founded on the single-diode model, IEEE J. Photovolt., vol. 7, no. 5, pp , Sep [J4] S. Kolesnik, M. Sitbon, S. Lineykin, E. Batzelis, S. Papathanassiou, T. Suntio, and A. Kuperman, Solar irradiation independent expression for photovoltaic generator Maximum Power Line, IEEE J. Photovolt., vol. 7, no. 5, pp , Sep [J5] Efstratios I. Batzelis, Georgios E. Kampitsis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, Power reserves control for PV systems with real-time MPP estimation via curve fitting, IEEE Trans. Sustain. Energy, vol. 8, no. 3, pp , Jul [J6] Efstratios I. Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "A method for the analytical extraction of the single-diode PV model parameters," IEEE Trans. Sustain. Energy, vol. 7, no. 2, pp , Apr [J7] Efstratios I. Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "An algorithm to detect partial shading conditions in a PV system," Mater. Sci. Forum, vol. 856, pp , Feb [J8] Efstratios I. Batzelis, Konstantinos Samaras, Georgios Vokas and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Off-grid inverter faults: diagnosis, symptoms and cause of failure," Mater. Sci. Forum, vol. 856, pp , Feb [J9] Efstratios I. Batzelis, Pavlos S. Georgilakis, and Stavros A. Papathanassiou, "Energy models for photovoltaic systems under partial shading conditions: a comprehensive review," IET Renew. Pow. Gen., vol. 9, no. 4, pp , May [J10] Georgios N. Psarros, Efstratios I. Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Partial shading analysis of multistring PV arrays and derivation of simplified MPP expressions," IEEE Trans. Sustain. Energy, vol. 6, no. 2, pp , Apr [J11] Efstratios I. Batzelis, Georgios E. Kampitsis, Stavros A. Papathanassiou, and Stefanos N. Manias, "Direct MPP calculation in terms of the single-diode PV model parameters," IEEE Trans. Energy Convers., vol. 30, no. 1, pp , Mar [J12] Efstratios I. Batzelis, Iason A. Routsolias, and Stavros A. Papathanassiou, "An explicit PV string model based on the Lambert W function and simplified MPP expressions for operation under partial shading," IEEE Trans. Sustain. Energy, vol. 5, no. 1, pp , Jan CONFERENCE PAPERS [C1] Nikolaos Nikolaou, Efstratios Batzelis, and Gavin Brown, Gradient boosting models for photovoltaic power estimation under partial shading conditions, in Proc. DARE 2017, Skopje, Macedonia, Sep. 2017, pp [C2] Efstratios Batzelis, Georgios Kampitsis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "A MPPT algorithm for partial shading conditions employing curve fitting," in Proc. 32th EU PVSEC, Munich, Germany, Jun. 2016, pp [C3] Georgios Kampitsis, Efstratios Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Power balance control for a two-stage solar inverter with Low Voltage Ride Through capability," in Proc. 32th EU PVSEC, Munich, Germany, Jun. 2016, pp Page 4 of 5

5 [C4] [C5] [C6] [C7] [C8] [C9] [C10] [C11] [C12] [C13] Efstratios Batzelis, Theofanis Sofianopoulos, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Active power control in PV systems using a curve fitting algorithm based on the single-diode model," in Proc. 31th EU PVSEC, Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 2015, pp Efstratios Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "An Efficient MPPT Algorithm for Partially Shaded PV Strings," in Proc. 31th EU PVSEC, Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 2015, pp Georgios Kampitsis, Efstratios Batzelis, Eleni Gati, Stavros Papathanassiou, and Stefanos Manias, "Electro-thermal characterization of 1.2 kv normally-on SiC JFETs under hard switch fault," in Proc. EPE'15, Geneva, Switzerland, Sep Efstratios Batzelis, Stavros Papathanassiou, and Antonios Kladas, "A partial shading detection technique for MPPT algorithms in PV systems," in Proc. JAPMED'9, Sofia, Bulgaria, July Efstratios Batzelis, Konstantinos Samaras, Georgios Vokas, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Statistical analysis of faults at off-grid inverters for autonomous PV systems," in Proc. JAPMED'9, Sofia, Bulgaria, July Georgios Psarros, Efstratios Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Analysis of local MPPs on the P-V curve of a partially shaded PV string," in Proc. 29th EU PVSEC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep. 2014, pp Efstratios Batzelis, Sotirios Nanou, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Active power control in PV systems based on a quadratic curve fitting algorithm for the MPP estimation," in Proc. 29th EU PVSEC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep. 2014, pp Efstratios Georgoulas, Efstratios Batzelis, Sotirios Nanou, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Study of single-string and multi-string amorphous silicon single junction modules in partial shading conditions," in Proc. 28th EU PVSEC, Paris, France, Sep. 2013, pp Sotirios Nanou, Efstratios Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Evaluation of PV inverter control schemes under distorted and variable frequency grid conditions," in Proc. 28th EU PVSEC, Paris, France, Sep. 2013, pp Sotirios Nanou, Efstratios Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "Enhanced MPPT control of a two-stage grid-connected PV system under fast-changing irradiance conditions," in Proc. 28th EU PVSEC, Paris, France, Sep. 2013, pp BOOK CHAPTERS [B1] S. Manias, Power Electronics and Motor Drive Systems, Elsevier, 1 st edition, 2016 Chapter 6. Inverters (DC AC Converters) Contribution in drafting/editing Page 5 of 5