Panagiotis Kotsambopoulos

Panagiotis Kotsambopoulos is a Principal Investigator in Smart Grids at EPISEY (National Technical University of Athens) and a Senior Member of IEEE. He holds a PhD in Distributed Power Generation from NTUA (2017), an Electrical Engineering degree (2010), and a Primary Education degree from the National University of Athens (2020). His research focuses on distributed energy resource control, real-time simulation, microgrid dynamics, and cybersecurity education.

• Education: PhD (Distributed Power Generation, NTUA 2017), Electrical Engineering (NTUA 2010), Primary Education (National University of Athens 2020)

He pioneered Europe's first Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) laboratory setup (2011) and leads NTUA's Power Systems Laboratory. His 36+ journal publications and 37 conference papers explore smart grid validation, energy community business models, and grid-forming inverter dynamics. He coordinates European research projects including H2020 RE-EMPOWERED and APEX.

As IEEE PES Task Force Chair for innovative teaching methods, he developed open-source benchmark models and co-led IEEE Working Group P2004 on PHIL testing standards. He has taught power systems courses at NTUA since 2019 and represents EPISEY-NTUA in DERlab, a global network of distributed energy laboratories.