Dr Mahmoud Shahbazi

Biography	Dr Mahmoud Shahbazi is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Department of Engineering, Durham University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, in 2012. Prior to joining Durham University in 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher, he held positions as a lecturer at Azad University and as a postdoctoral researcher at Sharif University of Technology in Iran. He became an Assistant Professor at Durham in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. Dr Shahbazi's research interests focus on modern energy systems reliability and resilience, fault-tolerant control, renewable energy integration, and power system modelling and optimization. He has published over 50 research papers and has served as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I) on projects totalling more than £14 million in combined funding.
Research Interests	Microgrid Power Electronics Renewable Energy Smart Grid Fault-Tolerant Control Electric Drives

Biography

Dr Mahmoud Shahbazi is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Department of Engineering, Durham University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, in 2012. Prior to joining Durham University in 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher, he held positions as a lecturer at Azad University and as a postdoctoral researcher at Sharif University of Technology in Iran. He became an Assistant Professor at Durham in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022.

Dr Shahbazi's research interests focus on modern energy systems reliability and resilience, fault-tolerant control, renewable energy integration, and power system modelling and optimization. He has published over 50 research papers and has served as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I) on projects totalling more than £14 million in combined funding.

Research Interests

Microgrid
Power Electronics
Renewable Energy
Smart Grid
Fault-Tolerant Control
Electric Drives