Vahid Vahidinasab received the PhD in electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. Since 2010, he has been a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU). He founded and managed SOHA Smart Energy Systems Laboratory at SBU. He has demonstrated a consistent track record of attracting external funds and managed several industrial projects and closely worked with several large and complex national/international projects. Since 2018 he is with the School of Engineering at Newcastle University and manages the inteGRIDy as an EU Horizon 2020 project. He is also a senior researcher of the EPSRC ActiveBuilding Centre (ABC) and leads activities in the area of control and optimisation of active buildings. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) as well as IEEE Smart Grid Community. He is also a Member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of the IET Generation, Transmission& Distribution as well as the IET Smart Grid.
