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Professor Agusti Egea Alvarez

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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Personal statement

Dr Agustí Egea-Àlvarez is a Professor at the electronic & electrical engineering department and a member of the PEDEC (Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Conversion) group. Also, he is Network Operational Perfomance Manager in ScottishPower Energy Networks.

He obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona in 2008, 2010 and 2014 respectively.Ìý In 2015 he was a Marie Curie fellow in the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI). In 2016 he joined Siemens Gamesa as converter control engineer working on grid forming controllers and alternative HVDC schemes for offshore wind farms. He is a member of IEEE, IET and has been involved in several CIGRE working groups.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
2023
Recipient
2020
Recipient
2019

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Publications

Yu Lujie, Fu Ziyu, Zhu Jiebei, Chen Yin, , , Adam Grain P,
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy Vol 17, pp. 772-787 (2026)
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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Vol 73, pp. 4989-5001 (2026)
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IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Vol 41, pp. 942-954 (2026)
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IET Conference Proceedings Vol 2025, pp. 76-82 (2026)
Nakiganda Agnes, Lindahl Martin, Henderson Callum, , Herre Lars
eTransportation Vol 27 (2026)
Kishore Chandan, Tripathy Manoj, Nandi Rohit, ,
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Vol 21, pp. 9678-9689 (2025)

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Research Interests

His current research interests are:

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-ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Grid forming and Virtual Synchronous Machine converter control algorithms.

-ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Control of Voltage Source Converters to weak grids and low inertia systems.

-ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Alternative HVDC connection schemes for offshore wind farm.

-ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Control and operation of DC-DC converters for HVDC systems.

Professional Activities

Peer reviewer
2022
Speaker
6/12/2021
Speaker
12/2021
Speaker
9/2021
Peer reviewer
2021
Participant
27/9/2020

Projects

Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Stephen, Bruce (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2026 - 30-Jan-2027
Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Ahmed, Khaled (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Li, Shen (Co-investigator) Turan, Osman (Co-investigator) Yuan, Zhiming (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 28-Jan-2028
Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Nordena, Noreta (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2028
Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Tan, Agnes Bee Chin (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Tan, Agnes Bee Chin (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029

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Contact

Professor Agusti Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373