Professor Agusti Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
Agust铆 Egea-脌lvarez 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.听 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.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 2023
- Recipient
- 2020
- Recipient
- 2019
Publications
- Hackl Philipp, , Harrison Sam, Zhang Ziqian, Schuerhuber Robert
- IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution Vol 20 (2026)
- Harrison Sam, , Hern谩ndez Mart铆 Dom铆nguez, Ma帽e Marc Cheah, Gomis-Bellmunt Oriol
- Electric Power Systems Research Vol 264 (2026)
- Farag Ahmed Y, Mu帽oz Pe帽a Paula, Harrison Sam, Cheah-Ma帽茅 Marc, Gomis-Bellmunt Oriol, Cipr茅s Lalaguna Elena, , Mattavelli Paolo
- IEEE Access Vol 14, pp. 93312-93327 (2026)
- 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)
- Benedetti Luke Ian, , Preece Robin, Papadopoulos Panagiotis N
- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Vol 41, pp. 942-954 (2026)
Research Interests
His current research interests are:
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-听听听听听听听听听 Grid forming and Virtual Synchronous Machine converter control algorithms.
-听听听听听听听听听 Control of Voltage Source Converters to weak grids and low inertia systems.
-听听听听听听听听听 Alternative HVDC connection schemes for offshore wind farm.
-听听听听听听听听听 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
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Liu, Di (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-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
Contact
Professor
Agusti
Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373