Research

Project Coordinator:

• Dr. Elias Kyriakides is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Associate Director for Research of the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, at the University of Cyprus. Dr. Kyriakides’ research expertise is in the area of synchronized measurements in power systems; power system operations (economic dispatch, load forecasting); power quality; estimation of synchronous generator parameters; stability and operation of renewable energy sources connected to the power grid; power engineering education. He is also the Action Chair of the ESF-COST Action IC0806 “Intelligent Monitoring, Control, and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems” (IntelliCIS) (2009-2013). 

Dr. Kyriakides CV

Research activities for the Zero Co2 Project have also been supported by the following persons:

• Ζenonas Αchillides is from Nicosia, Cyprus. He is a Senior Engineer at the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC). He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Brunel University in 1992, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from UMIST in 1993. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. His research interests include the physics and understanding of PD, signal-processing techniques applied to power engineering, renewable energy sources, power quality and electromagnetic fields.
• Marcos Αsprou obtained the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cyprus in 2009. Currently he is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at the University of Cyprus. He is also working as a researcher in the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks. His research interests include monitoring and state estimation of power systems using synchronized measurements and fault location detection in power system transmission lines based on synchronized measurements.
• Philippos Prodromou is currently a M.Sc. student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus. He received the Diploma of Technician Engineer in Mechanical Engineering from the Higher Technical Institute and the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cyprus. His research interests include fuel cell technology and their application for energy generation from renewable sources. He received the 2nd prize in the “Research Contest for Undergraduate Students” organized by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation for his senior year diploma project (Sep. 2008). He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Cyprus.
• Irina Ciornei is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus and a researcher in the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks. Shereceived the Bachelor’s degree in Power and Electrical Engineering in 2002 from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania, and the M.Sc. in Energy and Environment Engineering in 2003 from the same university and from the “Ecole Superieur Politechnique”, Poitiers, France. Between 2003-2006 she worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Iasi, where she was envolved on a number of feasibility studies for energy producers. At the last quarter of 2008 she was a visiting researcher at VTT Finland were she carried out a study on wind integration in Cyprus. Her research interests include heuristic methods for optimization (GA, API, SA, and PSO), economic dispatch in electrical power systems, integration of wind energy into the main power grid, and power system analysis.

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