Felipe Arrano Vargas

Dr. Felipe Arrano Vargas is a Lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney. He also serves as an Engineering Early Career Academic Fellow and a Research Fellow with the Real-Time Simulations Laboratory (RTS@UNSW).

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, UNSW Sydney (2018-2022)
• B.Eng.Sc. & Electrical Engineering Diploma, University of Chile (2008-2013)

His research focuses on power system digital twins, real-time simulation, synthetic grids, and renewable energy integration. These areas aim to bridge industry and academia through advanced modeling techniques.

• UNSW's Engineering Early Career Academic Fellowship (2023)
• Best Paper Award, Energies (2022)
• Best Paper Award, IEEE ISGT Asia (2021)
• Graduate Collaborative Research Award, Universitas 21 (2019)
• Student Travel Award, IEEE Power Electronics Society (2019)

Dr. Arrano Vargas co-supervises Ph.D. and Master's students on topics like power oscillation damping, coordinated control of renewables and storage, and geographically distributed real-time simulations. He teaches ELEC9719 - Real-Time Digital Simulations and ELEC1111 - Electrical Circuit Fundamentals, and serves as an invited lecturer for EIE740 - Advanced Topics in Modern Power Systems.