Team
Head of Laboratory
Reza Rezzaghi
Dr Reza Razzaghi received his Ph.D. degree from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2016. His research aims to develop smart grid solutions to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supply. His research group is particularly interested in the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power networks, monitoring and visibility of power networks, and power system protection. His extensive research on advanced fault location methods has resulted in a commercialised patent.
He has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards including the 2022 Dean's Award for Research Engagement and Impact, 2021 Dean’s Awards For Technological Innovation In Learning And Teaching, 2019 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility and the 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Society Basil Papadias Award.
Research Fellows
Mohsen Khorasany
Dr Mohsen Khorasany is an academic and research engineer with extensive experience and knowledge in modelling, optimisation, and control of power and energy systems. He obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Queensland University of Technology in 2019. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, in 2010 and 2012. Currently, he is researching distributed energy resources integration, transactive energy, local energy markets design, peer-to-peer trading, microgrid energy management, market clearing mechanisms, distributed optimisation and energy pricing mechanisms.
Imran Azim
Dr Imran Azim completed Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electrical Engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh in 2013 with First Class Honours. He obtained Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from The University of New South Wales, Australia in 2017. He also holds Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from The University of Queensland, Australia – awarded in 2022.
Dr Azim is passionate about smart power grids. His research interests include local energy markets, peer-to-peer energy trading, smart control schemes, microgrids, and flexibility services. Currently, he is working to analyse the challenges of incorporating demand response and electric vehicles in today’s electricity grids and provide cutting-edge solutions.
Edward Burstinghaus
Edward Burstinghaus is an electrical engineer with four years of work experience in the power industry as well as a PhD in electrical engineering focusing on power electronics control. His experience includes generator connection due diligence studies in PSCAD, PSCAD-PSSE benchmarking studies, R2 testing, protection studies in distribution networks and substation earth grid design in CDEGS. His current project with eleXsys and Monash University will involve a detailed study of DER hosting capacity in a real-world distribution network and a comparison of methods to improve it, which will include the use of distribution-scale STATCOMs.
PhD Students
Achala Kumarawadu
Achala Kumarawadu received his B.Eng Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Curtin University in 2022. His research focuses mainly on the management and control of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in low-voltage networks to ensure physical and operational limits of the network are not breached.
Afshin Najafi-Ghalelou
Afshin Najafi-Ghalelou received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2016 and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2019. His research interests include optimization, energy management and scheduling of electric vehicles and renewable-based energy systems and microgrids.
Md Murshadul Hoque
Md Murshadul Hoque received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical, electronic and systems engineering from the National University of Malaysia (UKM). His research mainly focuses on network-aware coordination of electric vehicles (EVs) in power distribution networks.
Manorath Prasad
Manorath Prasad is a PhD student at IITB-Monash Research Academy, an Indian-Australian research partnership. He completed my BTech in Electrical Engineering at IIT Ropar, Punjab, India and MTech in Power Systems at IIT Delhi, Delhi, India. His project is titled “Intelligent control and operation of large scale renewable energy integrated power system using Synchrophasor measurement system”, working on grid support from an active distribution network and its equivalent modelling using Synchrophasor technology.
Cassidy Flynn
Yasin Zabihinia Gerdroodbari
Yasin Zabihinia's research focuses on controlling and managing active distribution networks and distributed energy resources (DERs). In addition, he works on cost-effective approaches to improve the existing networks hosting capacity for renewables. Due to the immediate relevance of his project to the current challenges in Australian networks, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) supports his Ph.D.
Lakshan Bernard
Lakshan Bernard received his BE (Hons) degree in Electrical and Computer System Engineering from Monash University in 2019. Lakshan’s current research is about how system strength can be accurately quantified and assessed in modern transmission systems with a large share of inverter based generation. In particular, Lakshan is interested in how the underlying dynamics of the transmission system may facilitate undesirable interactions between separate inverter based resources.