Dr Efstratios BATZELIS

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1 Dr Efstratios BATZELIS Talbot Road, London, W2 5JN (UK) EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS PhD in electrical engineering National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Greece (scholarship-funded, excellent thesis award) Thesis title: Modelling and control of photovoltaic systems under partial shading conditions MSc in energy and power management NTUA, Interdepartmental program, Greece (scholarship-funded, ranked 1 st in my class) MEng in electrical and computer engineering Technical University of Crete (TUC), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Greece (ranked 3 rd in my class) EMPLOYMENT & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2017 Present Marie Curie Individual Fellow at Imperial, UK Marie Curie fellowship: PVCI Photovoltaic control & integration Deriving control schemes for PV systems towards provision of ancillary services to the electric grid; Developing coordinated frequency and voltage control strategies for power systems Working closely with 2 colleagues at Imperial, collaborating with NTUA (Greece) and IIT Kharagpur (India) 2017 Research Associate at Imperial, UK Project: JUICE Joint UK-India clean energy centre (10 UK universities, 17 Indian universities, 17 industry partners) Studied power systems with significant photovoltaic penetration Part of a 3-person team at Imperial, collaborated with Loughborough University (UK) and IIT Kharagpur (India) Individual Research Fellow at NTUA, Greece IKY/Siemens fellowship: PV systems: Modern challenges Studied and modelled PV systems under uniform illumination and partial shading conditions Research Assistant at NTUA, Greece Project: ANTI-SiC Design and development of a solar inverter employing silicon carbide transistors (2 Greek universities, 1 industry partner) Designed and developed a 5 kw grid-tie PV inverter Part of a 4-person team at NTUA, collaborated with University of Crete (Greece) Page 1 of 5

2 GRANTS & FUNDING TOTAL: 256, Marie Curie individual fellowship at Imperial, Principal Investigator: PVCI Photovoltaic control & integration, H2020-MSCA-IF-2016/ , 183, Short-term postdoctoral fellowship at NTUA, Principal Investigator: PV systems: Modern challenges, IKY/Siemens/ , 5, PhD scholarship at NTUA (via proposal writing): Modelling of photovoltaic systems under partial shading conditions, IKY/Siemens/11148/138, 58, MSc scholarship at NTUA (via proposal writing): Energy power and management, Propontis Foundation, 9,000 AWARDS 2017 Student Academic Choice Award for excellent supervision at Imperial 2017 Best logo award in the JUICE logo competition awards for excellent journal papers, NTUA 2016 Excellent PhD thesis award, Chorafas Foundation (top two at NTUA) academic awards during the MEng and MSc studies TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate teaching assistant at NTUA, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Gave guest lectures and tutorials in 5 courses (groups of up to 70): Industrial electronics (MSc, 1 lect/year), Electronics I (MEng, 1 lect & 1 tut/year) Power electronics I (MEng, 1 lect/year), Power electronics II (MEng, 1 lect & 1 demo/year), Advanced power electronics (PhD, 1 lect/year) Designed and delivered lab tutorials and demos in 2 courses (groups of 30-40): Power electronics I (MEng, 24 hours/year) Industrial electronics (MEng, 128 hours/year) Personal tutor at TUC, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1-to-1 or groups of 2-3) Provided guidance and support to 5 MEng students in the courses material and projects implementation (170 hours in total) ACADEMIC SUPERVISION 2018 Student Academic Choice Award for excellent supervision at Imperial 2018 PhD students Assistant Supervisor at Imperial (formal role) 2017 Present Supervised/supervising 2 MSc and 2 MEng students at Imperial: 1 distinction and 2 merit theses, preparing 1 joint paper Co-supervised 1 MSc and 4 MEng students at NTUA: 1 prize worthy and 4 distinction theses, 4 joint papers with the students MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION 2017 Present 2 nd marker of 4 MSc students 2017 Present Co-interviewed 9 PhD students 2017 Organized meetings as part of the JUICE project 2016 Present Managed/managing 2 individual fellowship projects Marked exams and project reports in 4 courses Page 2 of 5

3 EVIDENCE OF ESTEEM 3 Invited talks Feb-2019: Towards more grid-friendly photovoltaic systems without energy storage, Imperial, UK Oct-2018: Modern power system challenges, EPFL, Switzerland Dec-2017: Photovoltaic systems and electrical network, TUC, Greece 2 Committees Track chair in ELECTRIMACS 19 (IEEE co-sponsored conference, Salerno, May 2019) Publications Marketing Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society Peer-reviewer Memberships 5 IEEE journals, 5 other journals and several conferences IEEE (since 2014), IEEE Power & Energy Society (since 2017), IEEE Power Electronics Society (since 2017), Marie Curie Alumni Association (since 2017), Technical Chamber of Greece (since 2012) PUBLICATIONS 14 journal papers (10 in IEEE journals, first author in 12, single author in 2) 14 conference papers (first author in 7, 1 without mentor) 275 total citations (h-index: 7, i10-index: 7, Google scholar) Contribution in drafting of a book chapter Total citations Publications JOURNAL PAPERS [J1] Efstratios Batzelis, Non-iterative methods for the extraction of the single-diode model parameters of photovoltaic modules: A review and comparative assessment, Energies, vol. 12, no. 3, article no 358, Jan [J2] Efstratios Batzelis, Georgios Anagnostou, Ian Cole, Thomas Betts, and Bikash Pal, A State-Space Dynamic Model for Photovoltaic Systems with Full Ancillary Services Support, IEEE Sustain. Energy, early access, DOI: /TSTE [J3] 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 [J4] 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., vol. 31, no. 11, pp , Nov [J5] Efstratios I. Batzelis, Simple PV performance equations theoretically well-founded on the single-diode model, IEEE J. Photovolt., vol. 7, no. 5, pp , Sep [J6] 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 [J7] 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 Page 3 of 5

4 [J8] 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 [J9] Efstratios I. Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "An algorithm to detect partial shading conditions in a PV system," Mater. Sci. Forum, vol. 856, pp , Feb [J10] 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 [J11] 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 [J12] 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 [J13] 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 [J14] 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] Efstratios Batzelis, Georgios Anagnostou, Chandan Chakraborty and Bikash Pal, Computation of the Lambert W function in photovoltaic modelling, accepted for presentation in ELECTRIMACS [C2] 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 [C3] 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 [C4] 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 [C5] 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 [C6] Efstratios Batzelis, and Stavros Papathanassiou, "An Efficient MPPT Algorithm for Partially Shaded PV Strings," in Proc. 31th EU PVSEC, Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 2015, pp Page 4 of 5

5 [C7] [C8] [C9] [C10] [C11] [C12] [C13] [C14] 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