Oswaldo Arenas Crespo

Oswaldo Arenas Crespo is a Researcher at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) within Comillas Pontifical University's School of Engineering (ICAI). He holds a bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2013) and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2018). His research focuses on relay protection, disturbance analysis, power systems modeling, power electronics, energy storage, and non-conventional energy sources.

With 12 years of experience in Colombia's electricity sector, he has worked at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, XM (Colombian Electricity System Operator), PHC Proyectos Integrados, and ISA. He currently leads a project on automatic load allocation for Underfrequency Load Shedding (UFLS) schemes, funded by MICIU, AEI, and FEDER (2024–2027).

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned. His professional contributions span operational analysis, consulting engineering, and disturbance analysis roles. He is affiliated with the IIT lab at Comillas University in Madrid, Spain.