George Cristian Lăzăroiu
ASFA Member & Aspen Seminar Alumnus 2024
Dr. George Cristian Lăzăroiu is Professor at the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest. In 2006 he obtained the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He obtained the national Habilitation in Energy Engineering in 2015.
Dr. Lazaroiu developed large international cooperation with highly prestigious universities from all over the world taking part in PhD commissions, supervising foreign Post-Docs and PhD students. He acts as evaluator in research grants for many research funding bodies like Romanian UEFISCDI, the Italian MIUR, the Kazakhstan NCSTE, and as Expert for evaluating research projects in engineering domains within EU European Commission.
Dr. Lazaroiu authored or coauthored 5 books and more than 150 papers in prestigious international journals and national/international conferences. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, member and secretary of the Energy Commission within Engineering Sciences Section of the Romanian Academy.
He was the Co-Chair of IEEE 16th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP 2014), General Co-Chair of 2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe 2019) and General Co-Chair of the 2023 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2023).
He is active in IEEE Working Groups in the areas of power quality. He obtained the “Constantin Budeanu” Best Paper Award at IEEE ICHQP 2006, the Best Power Award at ICRERA 2014, the Business Excellence Award at Int. Conf. Business Excellence 2017, the Best Paper Award of Inventions journal in 2018, and the IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineering Award in 2018.
He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Energy Executive Editor of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin Series C-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Editorial Board member of Renewable Energy, and Editorial Board member of Smart Cities.
His research interests include energy systems development, smart cities, monitoring and control of power quality, electricity markets and optimization of power systems.