Jorge Suárez Porras

Jorge Suárez Porras is a Researcher at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) within Comillas Pontifical University's School of Engineering (ICAI). He specializes in Electric Power Systems, focusing on stability analysis of large systems with renewable generation and synthetic inertia. His work involves control systems for electronic converters and model reduction techniques. Currently pursuing a doctoral thesis on power system stability, he is funded by the MCIN/AEI/FSE+ predoctoral grant PRE2022-101606.

Education: BEng in Industrial Technologies (Comillas ICAI), MSc in Energy Engineering (Aalborg University, Denmark), specializing in Power Electronics and Drives. His master's thesis addressed distributed power electronics for second-life batteries.

Research Interests

• Electric Power Systems
• Power Electronics and Drives
• Control Systems for Converters
• Renewable Energy Integration
• Grid Stability and Oscillation Damping
• Model Reduction and Sensitivity Analysis

Notable Projects

• Follow-up of excitation system performance for Cofrentes NPP generator (Iberdrola, 2023-2024)
• Counteracting inertia reduction in power systems (Ministry of Science, 2022-2025)
• Generation-grid models for Iberdrola Renewables (2020)

Advising and Grants

• Predoctoral grant funded by MCIN/AEI/FSE+
• No formal advisees listed

Research Activities Includes participation in conferences such as CIGRE, APEC, and SAAEI, focusing on synchronous compensators, microgrid stability, and hybrid power systems.