Future Modern Distribution Networks Resilience: From Passive Operation to Strategic Active Paradigms examines the combined impact of low-probability and high-impact events on modern distribution systems' resilience. Using practical guidance, the book provides comprehensive approaches for improving energy systems' resilience by utilizing infrastructure and operational strategies. Divided into three parts, Part One provides a conceptual introduction and review of power system resilience, including topics such as risk and vulnerability assessment in power systems, resilience metrics, and power systems operation and planning. Part Two discusses modelling of vulnerability and resilience evaluation indices and cost-benefit analysis.
Part Three reviews infrastructure and operational strategies to improve power system resilience, including robust grid hardening strategies, mobile energy storage and electric vehicles, and networked microgrids and renewable energy resources. With a strong focus on economic results and cost-effectives, this book is a practical reference for students, researchers, and engineers interested in power engineering, energy systems, and renewable energy.
Azad, Sasan: - Sasan Azad is a Ph.D candidate in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and a researcher at the Electrical Networks Institute at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. His main areas of interest are the security and voltage stability of power systems, smart grids, and electric vehicles.
Daneshvar, Mohammadreza: - Mohammadreza Daneshvar is a Research Associate with the Smart Energy Systems Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tabriz. He is the editor of more than 40 journal and conference papers in the field of multi-energy systems, grid modernization, transactive energy, and optimizing the multi-carrier energy grids. He is the author and editor of three books with Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley-IEEE. He serves as an active reviewer with IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and IOS Press, and was ranked among the top 1% of reviewers in Engineering and Cross-Field based on Publons global reviewer database. His research interests include smart grids, transactive energy, energy management, renewable energy sources, multi-carrier energy systems, grid modernization, electrical energy storage systems, microgrids, energy hubs, machine learning and deep learning, blockchain technology, and optimization techniques.
Gharibzahedi, Seyed Mohammad Taghi: - Dr. Gharibzahedi holds a Ph.D. in Food Biotechnology from the University of Tehran. With over 20 years of experience, his research focuses on nonthermal processing technologies, food chemistry, emulsion-based delivery systems, encapsulation of substances in edible matrices, functional foods, enzyme technology, food industry by-product utilization, and the extraction and purification of biomacromolecules, particularly polysaccharides. He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, 7 book chapters, and 67 conference presentations, with over 6,072 citations and an h-index of 46. Dr. Gharibzahedi has collaborated with more than 100 scientists from leading global institutions and contributed to numerous high-impact projects. He has received multiple prestigious awards, including the Georg Forster Research Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany). He has been ranked in the Stanford University list of the world's top 2% of scientists from 2020 to 2024. Also, he is a well-established reviewer and an associate editor for several high-ranking journals.
Jalilpoor, Kamran: - Kamran Jalilpoor received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran, in 2018. He is currently working as a senior research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, SBU. He is the author of several top journal and conference papers in the field of distribution system resilience. His research interest is oriented to different aspects of power systems resilience, including catastrophe risk modeling, damage assessment, disaster response and recovery and optimization methods.
Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Behnam: - Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Ph.D., is a Professor with the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at Aalborg University, Denmark. Before joining the University of Tabriz, he was a research associate at the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy at the University of Calgary. He obtained MSc and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology. His main research interests are renewable energies, microgrid systems, and smart grids. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 technical publications in his domain of interest, more than 30 book chapters, and 10 books.
Sepasian, Mohammad Sadegh: - Mohammad Sadegh Sepasian was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1967. He received the B.Sc. degree from Tabriz University (Iran) in 1990 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tehran University and Tarbiat Modares University (Iran) in 1993 and 1999, respectively. Since 1994, he has been with Abbaspour Technical and Engineering Department, Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran where he is currently an associate professor. During this period, he has had supervising more than 31 MSc and 7 PhD students while at the same time, he has had several important responsibilities such as Vice-Chancellor in Education of electrical department and Head of Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University. He also acted as the Senior Researcher for the Iran Power System Engineering Research Center (IPSERC), affiliated to Tarbiat modares University. He managed several national projects for the Iranian power grid. His research interests are distribution networks, power system planning, electric vehicles, and smart grids.
Shafie-Khah, Miadreza: - Miadreza Shafie-khah is a full professor and Scientific Director of the Energy Business eMBA at the University of Vaasa, Finland, and a visiting professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He is the editor-in-chief or associate editor of several prestigious journals including the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. His main research interest is in demand response, decentralized electricity markets, and electric vehicles.
