Francisco Gonzalez-Longatt

Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt is currently a Lecturer in Electrical Power System at Electrical Power System en School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering en Loughborough University. His academic qualifications include first Class Electrical Engineering of Instituto Universitario Politécnico de la Fuerza Armada Nacional, Venezuela (1994), Master of Business Administration (Honors) of Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua, Venezuela (1999) and PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (2008). He is former associate professor (1995-2009) and Chair (1999-2001) of the Department of Electrical Engineering of Universidad Nacional Politécnico de la Fuerza Armada Nacional, Venezuela (1995-2009). He is a former academic staff of Department of Aerospace, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Coventry where he started as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering in 2012 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering in 2013. He was formerly with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester as Postdoctoral Research Associate (2009-2011). He is the author or editor of several books (Spanish and English) including “Power Factory Applications for Power System Analysis'', Springer (2014), and He has written 2 book chapters, 10+ journal and magazine papers and 60+ conference papers. His work has over +370 citations and his h-index is 9, according to Google Scholar. He was the keynote speaker a several conferences. He was the session chair at IECON 2013, IEEE Powertech 2011, IEEE ISGT Europe 2011. He is a reviewer of the top conferences (PSCC 2014, IEEE PES GM 2013, IECON 2013, etc.) and journal papers research area (IEEE Transaction on Power Systems, IEEE Transaction on Smart Grids, IET Renewable Power Generation, Elsevier Renewable Energy, etc.) He is Vice-President of Venezuelan Wind Energy Association, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET (UK) and member of International Council on Large Electric Systems -CIGRE. He reveived the professional recognition as FHEA – Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in January 2014. His research interest includes innovative (operation/control) schemes to optimize the performance of future energy systems. His research is or has been supported by Royal Society –UK. Two special research projects financially supported by the Royal Society deserve mention: “Smart Multi-Terminal DC -grids for autonomous Zero-Net Energy Buildings” and “Exploring Beyond the Frontiers to Build a Smarter Grid (EBF2BSG)”.