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João A. Peças Lopes (PhD) is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, where he teaches in the graduation and post-grad areas.

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He is presently one of the members of the board of INESC TEC.

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He is Fellow of IEEE - Power Energy Society.

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He was Director of the Sustainable Energy Systems PhD program at FEUP during 7 years.

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Prof. Lopes was responsible by INESC Porto participation in several EU financed research projects: MICROGRIDS - Large Scale Integration of Micro Generation to Low Voltage Grids; MORE_MICROGRIDS - Advanced Architectures and Control Concepts for More Microgrids. He was scientific coordinator of the EU project MERGE-Mobile Energy Resources for Grids of Electricity.

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He supervised several consulting projects involving connection of wind parks in Madeira, Azores, Sal, S. Vicente and S. Tiago, in Cabo Verde. He was responsible for consultancy projects related with the connection of large wind parks in Portugal.

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He was responsible for the definition of technical rules for the integration of wind power in Brazil. He coordinated consultancy studies for the Hungarian Regulator for the integration of wind power in Hungary. He coordinated the participation of INESC Porto in the InovGrid project.

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He was also the Chair of the Selection Committee of the public tender for the integration of 1800 MW of wind generation in Portugal, launched by the Portuguese government in 2005.

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His main domains of research are large scale integration of renewable power sources, power system dynamics, microgrids, smartmetering and integration of electric vehicles in electrical grids.

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He supervised 25 PhD Thesis and is author or co-author of more than 280 papers in conferences and journals.

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In 2012 he received the CIGRE Technical Committee Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution in SC C6 – Distribution Systems and Dispersed Generation.

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He is also one of the VP of board of Portuguese Association for Electric Vehicles.