Gen Li
Associate Professor
Department of Engineering Technology and Didactics
Energy Technology and Computer Science
Lautrupvang 15
Building Ballerup Room T1.14
2750 Ballerup
Danmark
HVDC Offshore Wind Energy DC Grid DC protection Energy Islands Power system protection
Gen Li received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, China, in 2011, the M.Sc. degree in Power Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2013 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K., in 2018. He is now an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. From 2013 to 2016, he has been a Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow funded by the European Commission’s MEDOW project. He has been a Visiting Researcher at China Electric Power Research Institute and State Grid Smart Grid Research Institute, Beijing, China, at Elia, Brussels, Belgium and at Toshiba International (Europe), London, U.K. He was a Research Associate at the School of Engineering, Cardiff University from 2018 to 2022. His research interests include control and protection of HV and MV DC technologies, offshore wind, offshore energy islands, reliability modelling and evaluation of power electronics systems. Dr. Li is a Chartered Engineer in the U.K., a Young Editorial Board Member of Applied Energy, an Associate Editor of the CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems and IET Energy Systems Integration, an Editorial Board Member of CIGRE ELECTRA and Global Energy Interconnection and an IET Professional Registration Advisor. He received the CIGRE NGN Significant Contribution Award in 2024. His Ph.D. thesis received the First CIGRE Thesis Award in 2018. He is now a Steering Committee Member of CIGRE Denmark NGN, a Member of CIGRE Working Group B4.96 and a Member of IEEE PELS Publicity Committee.