Firdous Ul Nazir
Lecturer
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Dr Firdous Ul Nazir has been a Lecturer in Electrical Power Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering since Aug 2022. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Associate at Imperial College London from January 2020. During this time, he actively contributed to international projects like Joint UK-India Clean Energy Centre (JUICE), a UK-India project, and Renewable Energy Empowering European and Indian Communities (RE-EMPOWERED), an EU-India H2020 project. Moreover, he has undertaken consultancy projects. He has also worked as a fixed-term Lecturer in Electrical Engineering for more than a year in 2015-16.
Firdous obtained his PhD in Electrical Power Systems from Imperial College London in 2020, having graduated with a master's in Power Systems from IIT Roorkee in 2015. During his PhD, he was an Inlaks Scholar and also part-funded by the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Imperial College London.
Firdous is an experienced researcher with a personal funding track record of £272k. His research interests are power system operation and control, renewable energy integration, power system optimization, and stochastic behaviour of power systems. He has published many Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) transactions in these fields and contributed to a white paper on solar integration as a co-author. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Visiting Research Fellow at Imperial College London.