Thesis Award 2020: Roni Irnawan
Dr Roni Irnawan from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia has been awarded the CIGRE Thesis Award for his Ph.D. thesis “Planning and Control of Expandable Multi-terminal VSC-HVDC Transmission Systems”. His work can be seen as a strong contribution for the realisation of multi-terminal HVDC grids. Among several contributions, Roni proposes a methodology allowing a common operation of converters with different control designs and/or from different vendors, easing the expandability of HVDC grids.
This is the second CIGRE Thesis Award intended to recognize a paper written by a student based on their research, or Ph.D., or M.Sc. thesis.
The paper was peer-reviewed by the CIGRE Science & Engineering (CSE) editorial committee and will be published in CSE in 2020.
From left to right: Filipe Faria da Silva, Roni Irnawan and Claus Leth Bak
Roni Irnawan was born in Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 1985. He received the Sarjana Teknik (Bachelor's) degree in electrical engineering from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, in 2007, the M.Sc. degree in electrical and power engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in energy technology from Aalborg University of Technology, Denmark, in 2019.
From 2015 to 2019, he was part of the COBRAcable research project, which is a joint project between Aalborg University and Delft University of Technology and executed in cooperation with Energinet and TenneT TSO B.V.. This project was co-financed by the European Commission under the European Energy Program for Recovery. Throughout his period at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, he taught two Ph.D./industrial lectures and co-supervised three master theses and one semester project on the field of HVDC transmission system. In the summer of 2017, he spent three months at the Power Systems Research Group, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada and on several occasions between 2015 and 2018 at the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids (IEPG) Group, Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands as a guest researcher.
His employment experiences include Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, from 2008 to 2011, where he was a junior lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Modeling and Simulation Engineer with ABB HVDC, Sweden. From 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020, he was a research assistant at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, and the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, respectively. Currently, he is a lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.
His research interests include control and protection of HVDC transmission systems, power system components modeling and simulation, power system control and stability, and computer-aided power system analysis. During his Ph.D. studies, he focused on the planning and control coordination of expandable multi-terminal VSC-HVDC systems. One of his research outcomes is an interface that enables the existing converter control of a point-to-point HVDC link for multi-terminal operation. Hence, converter control interoperability between vendors can be achieved. With his Ph.D. works, he also received recognition from Springer as an outstanding Ph.D. research. His Ph.D. thesis has been published in the Springer Theses series.
“Thank you very much. I am honored to receive the CIGRE Thesis Award. It truly is the outcome of hard works and persistence. I would like to thank my supervisors, Assoc. Prof. Filipe Miguel Faria da Silva and Prof. Claus Leth Bak for their supports to keep my Ph.D. journey stimulating and enjoyable. I also found that CIGRE B4 Technical Brochures were the best place to start my Ph.D. journey. So, thank you very much for the efforts in developing these TBs. This award truly motivates me to achieve a successful academic career.”
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