Nikos Hatziargyriou

Nikolaos Hatziargyriou received the Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 1976 and the MSC and PhD degrees from UMIST, Manchester, UK in 1979 and 1982, respectively. Since 1984 he is with the Power Division of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of NTUA and since 1995 he is full professor in Power Systems. Since April 2015 he is Chairman and CEO of the Hellenic Distribution Network Operator (DEDDIE). From February 2007 to September 2012, he was Deputy CEO of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) of Greece, responsible for Transmission and Distribution Networks, island DNO and the Center of Testing, Research and Prototyping. He is Fellow Member of IEEE, past Chair of the Power System Dynamic Performance Committee, Honorary member of CIGRE and past Chair of CIGRE SC C6 “Distribution Systems and Distributed Generation”. He is co-chair of the EU Technology and Innovation Platform on Smart Networks for Energy Transition. He is member of the Energy Committee of the Athens Academy of Science. He has participated in more than 60 R&DD Projects funded by the EC and the industry and has coordinated among others, "CARE", "MORE CARE", "MERGE", “Microgrids” and “More Microgrids”. He is Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Development and the IEEE Power and Energy magazine. He is author of the book “Microgrids: Architectures and Control” and of more than 200 journal publications and 500 conference proceedings papers. He is included in the 2016 Thomson Reuters' list of the top 1% most cited researchers.





Education



National Technical University of Athens

Electrical Engineering

1972 – 1976



Ethniko Metsovio Polytechnico

Electrical Engineering

1971 – 1976





Experience



National Technical University of Athens

Professor

1985 – Present

Athens, Greece

Director of Electric Energy Systems Laboratory



European Technology Platform on Smartgrids

Chair of Steering Committee

Jan 2015 – Present

Brussels, Belgium



11th Microgrids Symposium

Chair of the Steering Committee

Jan 2015 – Present

Aalborg, Denmark

This is the series of International Microgrids Symposia started in 2005.



Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator SA (HEDNO)

Chairman of the Board

Apr 2015 – Nov 2019

Chairman of the Board and CEO

Apr 2015 – May 2018

Athens, Greece



CIGRE SC C6 "Distribution Systems and Dispersed Generation"

Chair

Sep 2008 – Aug 2014



PPC S.A.

Deputy CEO

Feb 2007 – Sep 2012





Most cited publications



Microgrids

N Hatziargyriou, H Asano, R Iravani, C Marnay

IEEE power and energy magazine 5 (4), 78-94 2007



Definition and classification of power system stability IEEE/CIGRE joint task force on stability terms and definitions

P Kundur, J Paserba, V Ajjarapu, G Andersson, A Bose, C Canizares, ...

IEEE transactions on Power Systems 19 (3), 1387-1401 2004



Trends in microgrid control

DE Olivares, A Mehrizi-Sani, AH Etemadi, CA Cañizares, R Iravani, ...

IEEE Transactions on smart grid 5 (4), 1905-1919 2014



Microgrids management

F Katiraei, R Iravani, N Hatziargyriou, A Dimeas

IEEE power and energy magazine 6 (3), 54-65 2008



Integrating distributed generation into electric power systems: A review of drivers, challenges and opportunities

JAP Lopes, N Hatziargyriou, J Mutale, P Djapic, N Jenkins

Electric power systems research 77 (9), 1189-1203 2007



Causes of the 2003 major grid blackouts in North America and Europe, and recommended means to improve system dynamic performance

G Andersson, P Donalek, R Farmer, N Hatziargyriou, I Kamwa, P Kundur, ...

IEEE transactions on Power Systems 20 (4), 1922-1928 2005