Ghanim Putrus is Professor of Electrical Power Engineering and leads the Electrical Power and Control Systems Research Group within the Faculty of Engineering and Environment at Northumbria University, UK. He has over 30 years of research experience with over 185 publications, including one patent and four book chapters. He has given several invited talks at national and international events. He has led and been involved in several research projects (funded by EU, EPSRC, Innovate UK and industry) and has often provided consultancy for industry.

Currently, he is involved in SEEV4-City Interreg project with the main objective to demonstrate smart energy and transport solutions. In this project, he leads work package 5 with focus on the development of successful business models for using electric vehicles to provide energy services. He plays an active role in the analysis of six operational demonstration pilots, of varying sizes and services covering the integration of electric transport, electricity grid and renewable energy.

He is involved in the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) professional activities and served on the executive committee of their Power Trading and Control Professional Network (2001-2009) and was the Chairman of the IET Northumbria branch for 2004/2005 session. He organised UPEC2006 conference at Northumbria and is member of the steering committees for several international conferences. He is Associate Editor of the Elsevier Renewable Energy journal. His main research interests are the application of power electronics in power systems, integration of electric vehicles and renewable energy resources into power distribution networks (smart grids).

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