Members

Ramón Blasco-Gimenez (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Nottingham, U.K., in 1996. From 1992 to 1995, he was a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham. In 1996, he joined the Department of Systems Engineering and Control, Universitat Politècnica de València, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include HVdc diode rectifiers, control of HVdc systems, wind power generation and grid integration of renewable energy systems. 

Salvador Añó-Villalba  received the M.Sc. degree in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in 1996, both in electrical engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. From 1987 to 1989, he was with the R&D Department, Electronic Trafic S.A., where he was engaged in developing hardware and software for street lighting measuring and automation. In 1988, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has been a consultant to Iberdrola S.A. on high-impedance faults, load forecasting, and neutral break detection. His research interests include wind energy, electrical machines, and system analysis.

Enrique Belenguer received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, in 1992 and 1997 respectively. Currently he is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at Universitat Jaume I, Spain where he has been the Director of the Electric Engineering Area from 1995 to 2020. His research experience is related to power system analysis, grid integration of renewable energy systems, integrated control of offshore wind plants with HVDC links and energy efficiency. He has also been the Director of the BP Chair on Energy Efficiency at the same university and the R+D Director of the Foundation of Energy Efficiency. He is an IEEE member.

Nestor Aparicio received the M.Sc. degree from the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, Spain, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, in 2011. In 2005 he joined the Universitat Jaume I, where he has been a Lecturer of the Electrical Engineering Area since 2016. For 6 months, he visited the Institute of Energy Technology of Aalborg, Denmark, in 2006, the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM), Sydney, Australia, in 2008, the Electricity Research Centre (ERC), University College Dublin, Ireland, in 2014 and the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, in 2017. His research interests include the grid integration of wind-power generators.

Emilio Pérez received the M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering in 2002 from the Universitat Jaume I, Spain, and the PhD in control engineering from the Universitat Politècnica  de València (UPV), Spain, in 2011. Between 2002 and 2006 he worked with the Predictive Control and Heuristic Optimization group at UPV. In 2006, he was granted for research at the University of Sheffield , UK. Since 2006, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Area at Universitat Jaume I, where he currently works as an Associate Professor. His current research interests include optimization applied to renewable and energy storage systems, ageing of Li-ion batteries and solar energy forecasting.

José Carlos Alfonso-Gil received the M.E. degree in Automation and Industrial Electronics Engineering from the Universitat Politècnia de València, Spain, in 2004, and a PhD degree in Electronics Engineering in 2010. Since 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Area at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. He has participated in fifteen research projects with competitive public funding in the fields of active power filters, integration of renewable energies and efficient operation of the grid. As a result, he is the coauthor of 11 journal publications. His major fields of interest are active power filters, control of power converters and renewable energy systems.

Ricardo Vidal-Albalate received the M.Sc. Degree in Industrial Engineering and the Ph.D Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universitat Jaume I,Castelló de la Plana, Spain, in 2010 and 2017, respectively. He was a visiting scholar for 6 months at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Nottingham, U.K., in 2014. He has been a Lecturer of the Electrical Engineering Area since 2013. His research interests include MMCs (AC-DC and DC-DC converters) for HVDC grids and grid integration of wind power.

Lluís Monjo received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering, the M.Eng. degree in energy, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2007, 2009, and 2013, respectively. He has been an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, UPC, since 2007 to 2015. In 2016, he joined as a Lecturer at the Department of Industrial Systems and Design, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana. Since 2019 he is Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Area. His research interests include electric machines, power quality and renewable generation.

Carlos Díaz Sanahuja received his B.Sc in Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de València in 2012 and his B.Sc in Industrial Technologies Engineering and his M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in 2016 and 2018, respectively. Since 2018, he is a PhD student at the Industrial Technologies and Materials program at UJI. He has participated in some research projects in the field of control of wind-power systems. His current research interests include optimization and control of wind-power systems, decentralized control and robust control of large-scale systems.