LEMUR is a multidisciplinary research team with researchers belonging to different knowledge areas: Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics and Automation and Control Engineering. The strength is based on looking for synergies and knowledge integration among team members in order to apply for bigger and complex research projects.
Pablo Arboleya
Pablo Arboleya received the M.Eng and Ph.D. (with distinction) degrees from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain in 2001 and 2005 respectively, both in electrical engineering. Nowadays, he works as an associate professor at the University of Oviedo. He was visiting professor at institutions like University of Illinois, University of British Columbia, University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Paris) among others. He is co-founder of the LEMUR research group in which he carries out his research activities related to energy management in electrical systems.
Pablo is holding the SmartCities Chair at University of Oviedo funded by the city of Gijón. Aligned with the target of this Chair he participated in the development of the Gijón DemoLab in which an IoT infrastructure at city level is being tested and developed. He is also co-founder of Plexigrid, a technology-driven company that develops software tools specially designed for grid operators, aggregators and energy communities.
Regarding his editorial role, since 2015, he is managing editor of the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems from ELSEVIER and associated editor of eTransportation journal, a newly created magazine that aims to be ELSEVIER's flagship for transport electrification in which he has participated since its very conception in 2019.
At IEEE level, he has been an active member since 2003 (senior member since 2013). Pablo is vice-chair of the IEEE Ad’hoc Committee for Electrical Railway Systems, vice-chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Spanish Chapter and General Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC’2020) that will be celebrated in Gijón in October 2020.
He coordinated the Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems Master Course from 2011 to 2015. Since 2015, he is coordinating the Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Sustainable Transportation and Electrical Power Systems.
Pablo García
Prof. Pablo García (garciafpablo@uniovi.es):
Received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and control from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. In 2004, he was a Visitor Scholar with Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison. He is member of IEEE since 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo. During many years he worked in alternating-current (ac) drives, sensorless control, ac machines diagnostics, magnetic bearings and signal processing. Nowadays he is focused on power converters working as a connection interface of renewable energy and storage systems to the electrical grid. He was a recipient of the 2005 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Third Place Prize Paper Award and of two IEEE Industry Applications Society Conference prize paper awards in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He is the coauthor of 19 journal papers and more than 30 conference papers. Regarding his teaching activities, he is co-coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course in "Sustainable Transportation and Electrical Power Systems" (STEPS), (http://www.emmcsteps.eu).
Jorge García
Jorge Garcia is one of the founding faculty of the LEMUR research team.
He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oviedo, in Spain, in 2003, where he’s currently working as an Associate Professor of Electronics Technology in the Electrical Eng. Department, teaching subjects of electronics at the Polytechnic School of Gijon.
He was a visiting professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, RS (Brazil), in 2012; at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), in 2013; and at The University of Nottingham (UK) in 2016. He’s also been a guest professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (2017), at the University of Aalborg (2019), at the University of Rome-La Sapienza (2019) and at the Khwaja Yunus Ali University (2020).
He’s currently the Coordinator of 2 Master Degrees, the Master Degree in Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems, and the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sustainable Transportation and Power Systems (STEPS) with the support of the European Union.
He has supervised more than 40 BSc and MSc Thesis. He’s been the advisor of 4 Ph. D. Thesis in topics related to Power Electronics, and he’s currently advising 4 PhD students. He was a recipient of the University of Oviedo Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2005.
His research interests are focused on the fields of industrial and power electronics, including power topologies, control schemes and modeling for renewable and storage applications, drivers and devices for power electronics, magnetic components modeling, and optimal design, or IoT applied to power engineering and energy efficiency.
He’s been the coordinator of research projects at regional, national, and European levels, both with public funding and through contracts with companies.
Dr. Garcia is co-author of more than 50 international journal papers and more than 100 international conference papers.
Cristina González
Prof. Cristina González-Morán (cristina.dieecs.com/) received her MEng and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oviedo, in 2003 and 2010 respectively. She joined the Electrical Engineering Department of said university in 2005. In 2006 she got an Asturian Government doctoral grant. Since 2011 she has been working as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Her research interests include renewable energies, distributed generation and power system modeling and simulation. González-Morán is the co-author of over 20 papers indexed in JCR. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2015, and co-coordinator of the MEng in Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems (EECPS, http://mastereecps.uniovi.es ).
Cristian Blanco
He is IEEE Member since 2011. He received a B.S Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, a M.S. degree, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain, in 2010, 2011, and 2015 respectively. In 2011, he was awarded a fellowship of the Personnel Research Training Program funded by the Regional Ministry of Education and Science of the Principality of Asturias. From Sep. 2012 to Feb. 2013 he was a PhD Guest at Aalborg University (Denmark). From Jul. to Dec. 2019 he was Visiting Faculty at the University of British Columbia (Canada). He is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (University of Oviedo). At the same time, he works with the LEMUR research team; his research capabilities include modeling and control of islanded and grid-connected converters including storage systems, synchronization, islanding detection and power quality, microgrids and digital signal processing. Dr. Blanco was the recipient of an IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition second prize paper award in 2013. At the same time, he received the University of Oviedo Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2016.
Ángel Navarro
He is IEEE Member since 2015. He received the B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering with honours from the University of Castilla La-Mancha, Spain in 2012, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems, and the Ph.D. degree in Energy and Process Control from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in July 2014 and June 2019, respectively, granted by the government of Principado de Asturias. Nowadays, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronics, Computer, and Systems Engineering in the University of Oviedo since October 2019. In 2016/17 he was a Visitor Researcher with the PEMC Research Group in The University of Nottingham, U.K. He has authored or co-authored 8 IEEE journals and more than 15 IEEE conferences and he received the Outstanding Young EPE Member Award in 2018.
He is part of the LEMUR research group in University of Oviedo since July 2014 and his current research interests include microgrids control and modelling, grid-tied converters, energy storage systems, control systems applied to electrical energy conversion, power systems and electric traction, power quality and renewable energies integration.
Ramy Georgious
Ramy Georgious Zaher Georgious (georgiousramy@uniovi.es):
He received the B.Sc. degree from Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt, in May 2010, in Electrical Engineering with average appreciation Excellent with honors degree, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems (EECPS) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Asturias, Spain, in June 2014 and July 2018, respectively.
He worked as a teacher assistant in the Electrical Engineering department in Port Said University from March 2011 to September 2012. He joined LEMUR research team in University of Oviedo in July 2014. In 2015, he was a visitor researcher with Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) research group at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
He was granted by Erasmus Mundus (MEDASTAR) to do his Master in 2012 and by the government of Principado de Asturias to do his Ph.D. in 2013 in the University of Oviedo. His research interests include Energy Storage Systems, Control Systems, Power Electronic Converters, Microgrids, Renewable Energy, Design and Simulation.
Islam El-Sayed
Islam El-Sayed was born in Zagazig, Egypt, in 1984. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo, Gijónn, Spain, in 2012. His ongoing research is connected with the application of big data, visual analytics to power systems analysis. Islam works also in the development of techniques to allow the massive penetration of new technologies like Internet of the Things in Low Voltage distribution systems.
Rocío Suárez
Sarah Saeed
Bassam Mohamed
Miguel Crespo Iglesias
Xavier Domínguez
Caío Osóiro (Visitor)
Carlos Gómez-Aleixandre
Komal Khan
Geber Villa
Rand Al Mdanat
Andrés Suárez
Irene Peláez
Ángela García Zamora
Matías Ariel Kippke
Konstantin Patrick Edl
Mhret Berhe Gebremariam
Mohammad Irfan Yousuf
Sabbir Ahmad
Nahid Nasrin
Adrián Miranda Paz
Maria-Ruxandra Luca
Aida Zhanybek Kyzy
Hafte Hayelom
Alvaro Carpinteiro
Alba Vila
Sandra López
