About
Efstratios (Stratis) Batzelis has been a Lecturer with ECS since Apr 2021 and an “Engineering for Development” Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) between 2019-2024. Prior to that, Stratis was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London since Nov 2019 and before that he held an EU Marie-Curie individual fellowship on photovoltaic control & integration from Nov 2017. He obtained his PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2016.
Stratis is an experienced researcher with many IEEE publications and a funding track record of more than £1.5 million. He is a Senior IEEE member, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He is an advocate of sustainable energy and the fight against climate change. His research interests involve renewable energy technologies and distributed energy resources, mainly solar photovoltaics and inverter-based generation, power electronics control and power system stability.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems design, modeling, control and integration to the power system
- Renewable Energy Resources (RES)
- Electrification and energy access in developing countries
- Intergation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) to the power system
- Control of power electronics and Inverter-based resources (IBRs)
Current research
Funding
- UKRI Early Career Researchers International Collaboration Grant: UNIFORM - Unifying Grid-Following And Grid-Forming Control In Inverter-based Resources, Lead, £200k, 2024-Today
- EU Horizon 2020 Innovation Action: RE-EMPOWERED – Renewable Energy EMPOWERing European and InDian communities, Co-lead, £446K, 2021-2024
- RAEng research fellowship: SOL-DEV – Addressing the SOLar Integration Challenges in DEVeloping Countries, Lead, £964K, 2019-2024
- EU Marie-Curie individual fellowship: PVCI – PhotoVoltaic Control & Integration, Research Fellow, £157K, 2017-2019
- IKY/Siemens postdoctoral fellowship: PV systems: Modern challenges, Research Fellow, £4K, 2016-2017
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
ELEC6261 - Power System Dynamics, Stability and Control
ELEC6226 - Power Electronics for DC Transmission
ELEC2229 - Power Circuits and Transmission
COMP6200 - MSc Project
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Efstratios (Stratis) Batzelis has been a Lecturer with ECS since Apr 2021 and an “Engineering for Development” Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) between 2019-2024. Prior to that, Stratis was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London since Nov 2019 and before that he held an EU Marie-Curie individual fellowship on photovoltaic control & integration from Nov 2017. He obtained his PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2016.
Stratis is an experienced researcher with many IEEE publications and a funding track record of more than £1.5 million. He is a Senior IEEE member, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He is an advocate of sustainable energy and the fight against climate change. His research interests involve renewable energy technologies and distributed energy resources, mainly solar photovoltaics and inverter-based generation, power electronics control and power system stability.
Prizes
- Best paper award at NPSC 2020 in Power Electronics & Drives section (2020)
- Nominated for the Student Academic Choice Award for excellent supervision (2018)
- Excellent PhD thesis award, Chorafas Foundation (top two at NTUA) (2016)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (2019)
- Best paper award at the 2023 IEEE PESGM (2023)