Nikolai I. Voropai

Nikolai I. Voropai
Professor, National Power System Laboratory
Irkutsk Technical University, Russia

Biography

Nikolai I. Voropai (M’1996, SM’1998, F\\\\2008) is Director of the Energy Systems Institute (Siberian Energy Institute until 1997) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia. He is also Head of De¬partment at Irkutsk Technical University. He was born in Belarus in 1943. He graduated from Lenin¬grad (St. Petersburg) Polytechnic Institute in 1966 and has been with the Siberian Energy Institute since. N.I. Voropai received his degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences at Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1974, and Doctor of Technical Sciences at the Siberian Energy Institute in 1990. His research interests include mod¬eling of power systems; operation and dynamic performance of large interconnections; reliability, security, control and restoration of power sys-tems; development of national, international and intercontinental elec¬tric power grids. N.I. Voropai is a member of CIGRE, Fellow of IEEE.

Research Interest

Modeling of power systems; operation and dynamic performance of large interconnections; reliability, security, control and restoration of power systems; development of national, international and intercontinental electric power grids.