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Biography

Dr Mahmoud Shahbazi is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Department of Engineering, Durham University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, in 2012. Prior to joining Durham University in 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher, he held positions as a lecturer at Azad University and as a postdoctoral researcher at Sharif University of Technology in Iran. He became an Assistant Professor at Durham in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022.

 

Dr Shahbazi's research interests focus on modern energy systems reliability and resilience, fault-tolerant control, renewable energy integration, and power system modelling and optimization. He has published over 50 research papers and has served as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I) on projects totalling more than £14 million in combined funding. Notable examples include the EPSRC Reliability-Oriented Assessment and Design Towards Energy system integration with offshore Renewables (ROADsTER) [EP/W034484/1, £230k], Virtual Power Plant with Artificial Intelligence for Resilience and Decarbonisation (VPP-WARD) [EP/Y005376/1, £1.84M], EPSRC and NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment [EP/S023763/1, £6M] and EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience [EP/Y034732/1, £6.2M]. 

 

Prospective Students

Please send me your CV if you are a motivated student with strong background in any of the following fields:

  • Energy system modelling
  • Microgrids
  • Power electronics
  • Renewable integration (wind and PV)

Research interests

  • Microgrid
  • Power Electronics
  • Renewable Energy
  • Smart Grid
  • Fault-Tolerant Control
  • Electric Drives

Publications

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Supervision students