Spyros Skarvelis-Kazakos

Field of Expertise

Research interests include energy network resilience and reliability, interdependent critical infrastructure, impacts of climate change and pandemics on energy networks and adaptation to / mitigation of those impacts, intelligent control / aggregation of Distributed Energy Resources, multiple energy carriers / integrated energy systems, complex network dynamics, micro-grids, Virtual Power Plants, energy storage, multi-agent systems, electric vehicles, hydrogen, DC networks and grid integration of renewable energy through High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission.

Expertise

Full research profile: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p372786-spyros-skarvelis-kazakos/grants

Managing the Power Systems and Smart Grid sections of the Energy Dynamics Laboratory at Sussex, including microgrid equipment, controller hardware, real-time network simulation / HiL equipment, motor-generator sets and power network educational equipment.

Leading the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Network: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/critical-infrastructure-resilience-network/index

h-Index = 13, Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=F4u6xmEAAAAJ

Dr Skarvelis-Kazakos joined Sussex in July 2015 and is now a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering. He is leading the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Network (CIReN), and is a member of the Energy and Materials Research Centre. Prior to joining the University of Sussex, he was a Lecturer in Sustainable Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Greenwich. He has successfully attracted over £300k of research funding as PI and Co-I for 12 research projects from the EPSRC, the UK’s innovation agency (TSB / Innovate UK), the EU (H2020 / MSCA / FP7 / FP6 / Interreg) and the industry (Arup), to work on critical infrastructure resilience, power system reliability and resilience, distributed agent-based controllers, multiple energy carriers, energy storage and microgrids.

He has PhD supervision experience and completions and has also managed Research Fellows / Assistants. He has participated as lead user, co-investigator and researcher in international multidisciplinary EU projects on biofuels for Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generators (Interreg Ecotec 21), control and grid integration of Electric Vehicles (FP7 MERGE) and testing an intelligent control system he had developed (FP7 DERri).

Before his first academic post, he completed his PhD thesis at Cardiff University, under the supervision of Dr. Liana Cipcigan and Prof. Nick Jenkins. He also has experience working in consultancy (Garrad Hassan – now DNV GL) and research centres (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems [CRES] in Greece, where he worked on the FP6 project EU-DEEP - The birth of a EUropean Distributed EnErgy Partnership).

Professional activities and recognition:

- EPSRC Peer Review College Full member (2016 - present), ranked top 6%

- EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub – Climate Adaptation Working Group – Chair (2020 - present)

- EPSRC Energy SuperStore Hub Science Board member (2016 - present)

- EPSRC H2FC SUPERGEN Hub Science Board member (2014 - present)

- IEEE PES Computing and Analytic Methods Subcommittee (CAMS) Working Group 1 on the Understanding, Prediction, Prevention and Restoration of Cascading Failures (2021 - present)

- IEEE PES T&D Subcommittee - Distribution Resiliency Working Group (2021 - present)

- IEEE Working Groups: P2660.1, P2030.1, P2030.4, P2030.10, DC@Home (2010 - 2021)

- CIGRE Working Groups: C6.43, C6.30, C4.47, C1.45, C1.47 (2014 - present)

- IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Technical Committee on Smart Grids (2015 - 2018)

- H2020 ERIGrid project User Selection Panel (USP) member (2017 - present)

- Member of The IET (MIET)

- Member of IEEE

- Member of CIGRE and CIGRE (UK)

- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)