Introduction of the leader
Dr. Haoran Zhao is currently a National Distinguished Professor (selected in 2017), Ph.D. supervisor and Deputy Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Shandong University. From 2001 to 2014, he obtained bachelor, master and Ph.D. degrees from Shandong University (SDU), Technical University of Berlin (TUB), and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), respectively. He has worked for the State Grid Cooperation of China (SGCC), Younicos AG (Germany), DIgSILENT (Germany) and the Center of Electrical Engineering, DTU. In Oct. 2017, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Shandong University. From 2019 to 2020, he also served as the Deputy Director of the Construction Office of Longshan Campus (Innovation Port) at Shandong University.
His research interests primary focus on renewable power generation and grid integration, renewable power system modeling and simulation, and optimization and control of integrated energy systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of CIGRE Working Group C6.C1.33 (Integrated Energy Systems), Member of CIGRE C4.56 (Simulation Model of Large Grid Electromagnetic Transient For Large-scale Power Electronic Integration), Member of IEC SC 8A Working Group, and Vice President of Shandong Energy Research Association.
Currently, he serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, IET Renewable Power Generation, Journal of Engineering and other international journals, and the youth editorial board member of Power Protection and Control. He was invited to serve as the Associate Editor of the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, and the Editor in Chief of the special issue of International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.
Prof. Zhao has long engaged in the research of planning and application of renewable energy generation, energy storage, and integrated energy system and has made a series of original achievements. He has received Applied Energy's 2018 Paper of the Year award. He has made many invited reports at international conferences and seminars. He has presided over and participated in a number of National Key Research and Development Projects of China, European Union and Nordic energy projects, power system software development, and European Union invention patents. In addition, he won the Third Prize in the 2021 China Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award and the First Prize in Guangdong Electric Power Technology Progress Award. He also won two silver prizes in the 2022 Geneva Invention Exhibition (Digital Twin of Wind Turbine and Digital Twin of Wind Farm), and the third prize in Technological Invention (Key technology and application of integrated energy system in optimization and operation) of China Instrument and Control Society in 2022. Furthermore, he awarded the first prize in the 2023 Shandong University Teaching Achievement Award for the exploration and practice of an innovative talent training system in electrical engineering addressing the national "Dual Carbon" strategic needs.
Education experience
- 2001-2005 School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Bachelor.
- 2007-2010 Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Master.
- 2011-2014 Center for Electrical Power and Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Ph.D.
- 2014-2017 Center for Electrical Power and Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Postdoc.
Work experience
- 2005-2007 Engineer at the State Grid Corporation of China.
- 2009 Engineer at Younicos AG, Germany.
- 2010-2011 Project engineer at DIgSILENT GmbH, Germany.
- 2017-Now Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University.
The cooperation unit

Key Project Topics
- Special Fund for Overseas High-level Talents, PI
- National key R & D Project: Research on active support technology of wind turbine voltage / frequency transient under grid fault, PI.
- National Natural Science Foundation of China: Wind farm active power control system based on distributed model predictive control, PI.
- State Grid Science and Technology Project: Research on dynamic simulation technology of power systems based on real-time simulation equivalent model of large-scale wind farms, PI.
- State Grid Science and Technology Project: Research and Development of MMC Model and Communication System Based on DIgSILENT, PI.
- State Grid Science and Technology Project: Development of risk assessment module of wide-frequency oscillation for large-scale wind power grid integration, PI.
- State Grid Science and Technology Project: Hybrid DC digital physics hybrid simulation interface algorithm, PI.
- Shanghai Electrical Apparatus Research Institute Project: DIgSILENT modeling and testing of 2.5MW inverter, PI.
- China Electric Power Research Institute Project: Wind farm refined model development and real-time online simulation technology, Chair.
- State Grid Science and Technology Project: Research on measured modeling and model parameter optimization technology of renewable power station, PI.
- Shanghai Electrical Apparatus Research Institute project: PowerFactory modeling of inverters, PI.
- China Electric Power Research Institute project: Innovation and self-funding - Development of risk assessment of wide-frequency oscillation for large-scale grid-connected wind farms, PI.
- Sub-project of National key R & D project: Grid-friendly control technology for large-capacity wind turbines, PI.
- The key technologies and device development for enhancing the flexibility of digital converters in wind power and photovoltaic power generation, Participant.
- State Grid Science and Technology Project: The key technologies and device development for enhancing the flexibility of digital converters in wind power and photovoltaic power generation, PI.
- China Southern Power Grid: Establishment of DIgSILENT Power Factory power grid model supporting BPA data conversion, PI.
- Key Research and Development Program of China: Information-energy coupling node energy consistent scale and its adaptive continuous evolution modeling, PI.
- Sub-project of National Natural Science Foundation of China: Unified modeling and refined simulation of integrated energy systems, PI.
- State Grid Science and Technology Project: "Renewable energy station + shared energy storage" coordinated control and comprehensive evaluation key technology research, PI.
- Shanghai KeLiang Information Technology project:Development and verification of the fundamental model of synchronous machine exciter, PI.
- State Grid Xinjiang Integrated Energy Service Co., Ltd.: The 2022 Xinjiang hardware-in-loop simulation for wind turbine impedance characteristic testing and evaluation, PI.
- State Grid Project: Research on the quantitative analysis and optimization strategy of real-time stability domain for large-scale wind farms connected to the grid, PI.
- LiHeng Technical Services Co., Ltd.: The VDE 4110 and VDE 4120 DIgSILENT PowerFactory modeling, PI.
- LiHeng Technical Services Co., Ltd.: The ETC Spain NTs modeling, PI.
- China Association for Science and Technology: Young scientist salon of distributed renewable energy cutting-edge technology and development trend under the "double carbon" goal of China Association for Science and Technology, PI.
- State Grid Project: Stability analysis and coordinated control methods for gid-forming power electronic devices under weak system conditions, PI.
- Southern Power Grid Project: Automated identification of offshore wind turbine parameters, PI.
- China Electronics Technology Group Project: Research on constructing methods for the stability domain of large-scale wind farms connected to the grid based on operational data and impedance reduction models, PI.
- State Grid Smart Research Institute Project: Stability margin evaluation of multiple types of converters connected to the grid, PI.
- China National Offshore Oil Corporation Project: Cooperative research on refinement of offshore wind farm model simulation and system grid-connected stability analysis, PI.
- Southern Power Grid Project: The Guangdong Laboratory Open Funding - Research on the modeling mechanism of offshore wind impedance characteristics, PI.
- Shanghai KeLiang: Development and application service of new type power system modeling and simulation technology, PI.