Introduction of the Leader

Professor Haoran Zhao is a Ph.D. supervisor, Deputy Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Shandong University (since Jan. 2022) and Assistant to the President of Shenyang Ligong University (a temporary post; selected by the Central Organization Department to serve Northeast China, since Mar. 2025). He is a Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education (selected in 2026), a National Distinguished Young Talent (selected in 2017), a Qilu Young Scholar (selected in 2016) and Chief Scientist of a National Science and Technology Major Project (since Jun. 2025). From 2001 to 2014, he obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Shandong University, Technical University of Berlin and Technical University of Denmark, respectively. He received the National Scholarship for Outstanding Overseas Students in 2014. He has successively worked for State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company, Younicos AG (Germany), DIgSILENT GmbH (Germany) and the Center for Electric Power and Energy, Technical University of Denmark. In Oct. 2017, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Shandong University as a full-time professor. From 2019 to 2020, he also served as Deputy Director of the Construction Office of Longshan Campus (Innovation Port), Shandong University.

In terms of academic appointments, he is currently Vice Chairman of the Shandong Energy Research Association, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE) and an expert of the Higher Education Teaching Evaluation of the Ministry of Education. He is a member of CIGRE Working Group C6.C1.33 (Integrated Energy Systems), a member of CIGRE C4.56 (Simulation Model of Large Grid Electromagnetic Transient for Large-scale Power Electronic Integration), an expert of IEC SC 8A Working Group, a member of the Distribution Network Control and Operation Committee of CSEE, a member of the Energy Internet Committee of CSEE, a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Electrical Applications Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society (CES), a member of the New Energy Power Generation Equipment Committee of CES, a member of the Integrated Energy Digital Twin Committee of the China Simulation Federation and a member of the Integrated Systems Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society. He has been listed in the annual World's Top 2% Scientists ranking.

In terms of editorial appointments, he currently serves as Associate Editor of IET Journal of Engineering, and as an editorial board member of IEEE Trans. Sustainable Energy, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, IET Renewable Power Generation, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy and Modern Electric Power System Protection and Control. He was invited to serve as an editorial board member of the special issues of IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and as Editor-in-Chief of the special issue of the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.

He has long been engaged in research on modeling and simulation of renewable power systems, digital twins of renewable energy and grid-connection stability analysis, and low-carbon optimal dispatch of integrated energy, and has achieved a series of original results. He received the Applied Energy 2018 Paper of the Year Award. He has delivered many invited talks at international conferences and seminars. He has led and participated in National Key R&D Program projects, a number of EU and Nordic energy projects, the development of power system software products and a number of EU invention patents. He was awarded the First Prize for Innovation Technology of the Science and Technology Award of the China Simulation Federation (2025) (Key technologies and applications of gas-elastic-mechanical-electrical multi-scale hybrid modeling and real-time simulation for large-scale wind farms), the First Prize for Technological Innovation of the Science and Technology Award of the China Renewable Energy Society (2025) (Key technologies and applications of low-carbon and efficient operation of integrated energy systems in industrial parks), the Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of the Chinese Association of Automation (2025) (Key technologies for distributed optimization and regulation of integrated energy oriented to safety, efficiency and low carbon) and the Gold Medal of the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions (A novel wind and PV power generation forecasting system based on power big data). He also won the Third Prize for Technological Invention of the China Instrument and Control Society (2022) (Key technologies and applications of optimal operation of integrated energy systems) and two Silver Medals of the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions (Digital twin of wind turbine, digital twin of wind farm) in 2022; the Third Prize of the China Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award and the First Prize of the Guangdong Electric Power Science and Technology Award (2021) (Research on key technologies and large-scale application of grid connection of energy-storage-assisted frequency regulation systems in thermal power plants); the First Prize of the Shandong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award (2025) (Reform of the cultivation of top electrical talents oriented to the "dual carbon" strategy featuring "mechanism guidance, virtual-real empowerment and three-chain integration"); the First Prize of the Shandong University Teaching Achievement Award (2023) (Exploration and practice of an innovative talent cultivation system for electrical engineering meeting the national "dual carbon" strategic needs); the First-Class Course of Shandong Provincial Virtual Simulation Courses (2024) (Virtual simulation experiment on VSC-HVDC grid-connection operation and control of large-scale far-offshore wind farms); and funding from the Shandong Provincial Key Teaching Reform Project (2023) (Construction of a composite talent cultivation system for new-type power systems based on a major-course integrated knowledge graph).

Education Experience

  • 2001-2005   School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University       Bachelor of Engineering
  • 2007-2010   Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Berlin       Master of Engineering
  • 2011-2014   Center for Electric Power and Energy, Technical University of Denmark       Ph.D.
  • 2014-2017   Center for Electric Power and Energy, Technical University of Denmark       Postdoctoral Researcher

Work Experience

  • 2005-2007 Engineer, Jinan Power Supply Company, State Grid Corporation of China
  • In 2009 Part-time Engineer, Younicos AG, Germany
  • 2010-2011 Project Engineer, DIgSILENT GmbH, Germany
  • Since 2017 Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University (2019-2020, concurrently Deputy Director of the Construction Office of Longshan Campus, Shandong University)
  • Since 2022 Deputy Dean, School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University
  • Since 2025 Assistant to the President, Shenyang Ligong University (temporary post, selected by the Central Organization Department to serve Northeast China)

Cooperation Partners

Key Projects

  • Special Fund for Overseas High-level Talents, PI.
  • National Science and Technology Major Project: Key technologies for carbon emission source tracing in provincial power systems, PI.
  • National Key R&D Program Project: Energy-consistent scaling of information-energy coupling nodes and its adaptive continuous evolution modeling, PI.
  • National Key R&D Program Project: Circuit topologies and multifunctional control technologies for enhancing the flexibility of wind-PV converters, Participant.
  • National Key R&D Program Project: Research on active voltage/frequency transient support technology for wind turbines under grid faults, Participant.
  • Major Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Unified modeling and refined simulation of integrated energy systems, PI.
  • Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on wind farm active power control systems based on distributed model predictive control, PI.
  • State Grid Headquarters Project: Research on quantitative analysis and optimization strategy of the real-time stability domain for large-scale grid-connected wind farms, PI.
  • State Grid Headquarters Project: Research on measurement-based modeling and model parameter optimization technology for renewable power stations, Participant.
  • State Grid Headquarters Project: Research on key technologies for coordinated control and comprehensive evaluation of "renewable power stations + shared energy storage", Participant.
  • State Grid Headquarters Project: Research on stability analysis and coordinated control methods for grid-forming power electronic equipment under weak system conditions, Participant.
  • Open Fund Project of the State Key Laboratory: Development of refined wind farm models and real-time online simulation technology, PI.
  • Shandong Province Science and Technology SME Innovation Capability Enhancement Project: Research on artificial-intelligence-optimized operation of digital renewable energy park grids with cloud-edge collaboration, PI.
  • Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Program: Theoretical research on small-disturbance stability domain quantification of large-scale wind farms based on the value set method, PI.
  • Provincial Natural Science Foundation General Program: Research on stability mechanism analysis and enhanced control of offshore wind power DC grid connection considering uncertain parameters, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: State Grid Linyi Power Supply Company 2024 - Research on distributed PV output forecasting technology based on meteorological data perception and reasoning, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: Research on key technologies for power hardware-in-the-loop simulation and verification of offshore wind turbines, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: State Grid Shandong Electric Power Research Institute 2025 - Research on equivalent clustering and accuracy improvement technology for centralized renewable energy, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: Data-mechanism dual-driven digital twin technology for renewable energy, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: State Grid Linyi Power Supply Company 2024 - Yimeng leading skilled talent innovation project, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: Research on coordinated voltage support control technology for grid-following and grid-forming distributed generation clusters, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: Research on joint clearing mechanism and optimization technology for multi-agent markets, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: Research on evaluation methods for frequency and voltage support capability of heterogeneous distributed generation, PI.
  • State Grid Provincial/Municipal Company Project: Research and application of energy-carbon modeling and intelligent management & control technology for zero-carbon parks, PI.
  • State Grid Science and Technology Project: Research on interface algorithms for hybrid DC digital-physical hybrid simulation, PI.
  • State Grid Science and Technology Project: 2022 Xinjiang hardware-in-the-loop closed-loop simulation - wind turbine impedance characteristic testing and evaluation service, PI.
  • State Grid Science and Technology Project: Research on construction methods of the grid-connection stability domain for large-scale wind farms based on operational data and reduced-order impedance models, PI.
  • State Grid Science and Technology Project: Research service on stability margin evaluation indices for grid-connected converters of multiple types, PI.
  • State Grid Science and Technology Project: Integrated energy intelligent operation and management & control platform service, PI.
  • State Grid Science and Technology Project: Research on power system dynamic simulation technology based on real-time simulation equivalent models of large-scale wind farms, PI.
  • State Grid Science and Technology Project: Development of DIgSILENT-based MMC models and AC system analysis research, PI.
  • State Grid Science and Technology Project: Development of a broadband oscillation risk assessment module for large-scale grid-connected wind farms, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Procurement of MATLAB fault ride-through model technical services, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Construction of DIgSILENT PowerFactory grid models supporting BPA data conversion, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Code development service for automated parameter identification of offshore wind turbines, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Guangdong Laboratory Open Project - Research on the modeling mechanism of offshore wind impedance characteristics, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Technology development - research on efficient offline transient simulation technology for large-scale power electronic equipment integration, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Framework procurement of auxiliary technical services for renewable power station simulation tests, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Development of a heterogeneous-architecture simulator for fast electromagnetic transient simulation of large-scale renewable power DC transmission systems, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Research on the tracing mechanism and modeling technology of power carbon footprint across the full life cycle, PI.
  • China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Project: Research on power carbon footprint factor algorithms integrating the composite propagation of whole-life-cycle carbon emissions on the generation, transmission and transformation sides, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Cooperative research on refined model simulation and system grid-connection stability analysis of offshore wind farms, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: DIgSILENT modeling and testing of a 1.25 MW inverter, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: PowerFactory modeling of inverters, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Development and verification of the fundamental model of a synchronous machine exciter, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Development and verification of the fundamental models of AC and DC exciters for synchronous machines, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: VDE 4110 and VDE 4120 DIgSILENT PowerFactory modeling, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: ETC Spain NTs modeling, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Young Scientists Salon on frontier technologies and development trends of distributed renewable energy under the "dual carbon" goal of the China Association for Science and Technology, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Development and application services of new-type power system modeling and simulation technology, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Feasibility study on integrated energy system modeling & simulation software development and management & control equipment R&D, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Research on optimal configuration methods of grid-forming equipment in renewable power transmission systems, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Shandong Province Science Popularization Demonstration Project, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Modeling design and integration services for multi-physics models of wind farms, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: SimuNPS-based software development and application services, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Code processing and testing & verification services for renewable-dominated power analysis modules, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Technology development for enhancing the capability of the PowerFactory platform, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Refined real-time simulation platform for wind farms, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Research on DIgSILENT PowerFactory grid modeling supporting BPA data conversion, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Development and deployment of multi-physics wind farm models and a real-time simulation platform, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Development of an intelligent microgrid management system, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Deployment of hardware equipment and systems for the multi-physics simulation system of Huadian Hunan New Energy Company, PI.
  • Other Enterprise Science and Technology Project: Deployment of hardware equipment and systems for the multi-physics simulation system of Inner Mongolia Huadian Hongtu Wind Power Company, PI.