Hrvoje Pandzic

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Awards

2018
Science Award
Government of the Republic of Croatia
2018
Award for the Highest Scientific and Artistic Achievements in Croatia
Croatian Academy of Science and Arts — for work on renewable energy integration
2018
Science Award
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
2015
Vera Johanides Award
Croatian Academy of Engineering
2014
Science Award for Young Researchers
Government of the Republic of Croatia
2012
Science Award
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
2012
Silver Plaque Josip Loncar
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
2008
Hrvoje Pozar Award
Croatian Power Society
2007
Hrvoje Pozar Award
Croatian Power Society
2006/07
Bronze Plaque Josip Loncar
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Recognitions & Professional Roles

2025–
Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
2024
Technical Programme Chair, IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2024
2023
IEEE PES Prize Paper Award
2023
Associate Member, Croatian Academy of Engineering
2020
Associate Member, Croatian Academy of Science and Arts
2019–2024
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
2019
Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
2018
Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
2018
Technical Programme Chair, MedPower 2018
2017–
IEEE Senior Member
2016–2023
Editor, Automatika Journal
2014
Head of Organizing Committee, IEEE EnergyCon 2014
2013
Best Paper Award Finalist, ICCVE 2013
2012–2015
Chair, Industry Application Society IEEE Croatia Section

Grants Awarded (total >4.4 M€)

2025–2026
FOCUS — Flexibility Options for Clean Utility Systems
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development & Ministry of Science, Education, and Youth of Croatia
€100,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2025–2029
RePowerFER — Resilient Self-Healing Future Power Systems
European Union National Recovery and Resilience Plan
€800,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2024–2027
CHESS — Coordinated Hydrogen and Electricity SyStems and markets
Croatian Science Foundation
€200,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2024–2026
Preventive Redispatch Tool — AC Optimal Power Flow
European Regional Development Fund
€200,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2023–2025
Coordinated Flexibility Provision System — Active Households
European Regional Development Fund
€200,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2020–2023
UKUS — Universal System for Communication and Control in Industry Facilities
European Regional Development Fund
€600,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2020–2023
USBSE — Connected Stationary Battery Energy Storage
European Regional Development Fund
€300,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2020–2023
ANIMATION — Active NeIghborhoods energy Markets pArTicipatION
Croatian Science Foundation
€180,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2020–2021
Strategic VPP Offering
Bilateral Chinese-Croatian Project
€10,000 · Co-PI: Dechang Yang, Hrvoje Pandzic
2019–2023
FLEXIBASE — FLEXIbility of converter-BASEd microgrids
Croatian Science Foundation
€295,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2019–2023
FLEXIGRID — Interoperable FLEXIbility services in distribution GRID
European Commission H2020
€450,000
2019–2022
FLEXGRID — Smart grid architecture for high RES penetration
European Commission H2020
€240,000
2017–2020
Compact Urban Vacuum Sweeper — battery packs
European Regional Development Fund
€290,000 · Co-PI from FER
2016–2019
uGRIP — Microgrid Positioning
ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus
€220,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2015–2018
SIREN — Smart Integration of RENewables
Croatian TSO (HOPS) & Croatian Science Foundation
€260,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2015–2018
EV BASS — Electric Vehicle BAttery Swapping Station
Croatian Science Foundation
€100,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic
2015–2016
Low-Carbon Sustainable Multi-Energy Microgrids
Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund
€25,000 · PI: Hrvoje Pandzic

Invited Talks

2025
"Battery Energy Storage in Modern Power Systems" — Keynote
5th International Conference on Smart Grid Metrology, Zagreb, April 22, 2025
2024
"Evaluation of Battery Models for Power System Economics"
Technical University of Denmark, September 10, 2024
2023
"Bridging the Gap Between Differential Equations and Linear Battery Models for Power System Economics"
University of Malaga, Spain, September 21, 2023
2023
"Bridging the Gap Between Differential Equations and Linear Battery Models for Power System Economics"
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, February 24, 2023
2022
"Do We Need Distribution-level Markets?" — Keynote
5th International Conference on Smart Systems and Technologies, Osijek, October 19, 2022
2022
"Flexibility in Modern Power Systems" — Round Table
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, October 18, 2022
2020
"Flexibility And Resilience Repercussions Of Electric Vehicle Aggregation Models"
INFORMS 2020, Online
2019
"Transmission Expansion Model Considering Flexible Assets Based on AC OPF"
INFORMS 2019, Seattle, October 23, 2019
2019
"Policies and Models for Integration of Energy Storage"
Tsinghua University, Beijing, February 27, 2019
2019
"Policies and Models for Integration of Energy Storage"
Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, February 22, 2019
2018
"An Accurate Charging Model of Battery Energy Storage"
INFORMS 2018, Phoenix, November 4, 2018
2018
"Validation of Battery Models for Low-carbon Energy Systems"
IEEE PES General Meeting 2018, Portland, August 7, 2018
2018
"Investments in merchant energy storage: trading-off between energy and reserve markets"
EURO 2018, Valencia, July 10, 2018
2018
"Energy Storage in Modern Power Systems"
Colloquium of Croatian Science Foundation and Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, Zagreb, April 18, 2018
2017
"Smart Grid Projects at University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing"
European Parliament, Brussels, November 28, 2017
2017
"Storage Investment Model Considering Energy and Reserves Markets"
INFORMS 2017, Houston, October 22, 2017
2017
"Role of the Distributed Sources of Flexibility in the Current and Future Market Structures"
Regional Energy Forum (REF 2017), Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina, May 25, 2017
2017
"Toward Cost-Efficient and Reliable Unit Commitment Under Uncertainty"
SMATAD, Malaga, Spain, May 21, 2017
2017
"Energy Storage in Power Systems"
Croatian Academy of Engineering, Zagreb, April 24, 2017
2016
"Storage And Generation Expansion Problem Considering Primary Response"
INFORMS 2016, Nashville, November 13, 2016
2016
Two-hour courses on interval/robust optimization
DTU Summer School, Copenhagen, July 4, 2016
2016
"Siting and Sizing of Distributed Battery Energy Storage in Electrical Grids"
Next Generation Energy Storage Symposium, San Diego, April 20, 2016
2015
"Integration of Energy Storage in Transmission Network"
Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, December 10, 2015
2015
"Optimizing Primary Response in Preventive Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow"
INFORMS 2015, Philadelphia, November 4, 2015
2015
"Generator Maintenance Scheduling in Competitive Environment"
International Conference on Operations Research, Vienna, September 2, 2015
2015
"Catch 22: Electric Vehicles and the Required Infrastructure"
Central European Student and Young Professionals Congress, Zagreb, May 9, 2015
2014
"Siting and Sizing of a Distributed Battery Energy Storage"
INFORMS 2014, San Francisco, November 9, 2014
2014
"Integration of Energy Storage in Transmission Networks"
University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 4, 2014
2008
"The True Inventor of Radio Communications"
TELFOR 2008, Belgrade, Serbia, November 25, 2008