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Prof. Dr. Petr Korba

Prof. Dr. Petr Korba

Prof. Dr. Petr Korba

ZHAW School of Engineering
IEFE Energy Storage and Energy Grids
Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur

+41 58 934 74 69
petr.korba@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

  • Deputy Director of Institute IEFE Institute of Energy Systems
  • Head of Research/Focus Area Energy Storage and Energy Grids
  • Head of Electric Power Systems and Smart Grid Group

Focus

Electrical power systems, Control systems, Power system dynamics and control, Integration of decentralized (renewable) energy sources, Wide-area monitoring and control, Smart distribution automation, AI and Big Data Analytics for Power Systems

Professional development teaching

WBK Photovoltaik, Netze und Speicher

Experience

  • Institut of Energy Systems and Fluid Engineering (IEFE), Electric Power Systems & Smart Grids
    Zurich university of applied sciences
    05 / 2012 - today
  • Lecturer, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
    ETH Zurich, D-MAVT
    01 / 2008 - 12 / 2022
  • Principal Scientist
    Corporate Research, ABB Switzerland Ltd., Baden-Dättwil
    09 / 2002 - 04 / 2012
  • Senior Development Engineer
    ABB Switzerland Ltd., Power Plant Automation, Baden
    02 / 2001 - 08 / 2002
  • Postdoc, Lecturer
    University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), Control Systems Centre, Great Britain
    01 / 2000 - 01 / 2001
  • Consultant
    GCI Management GmbH, Consulting, Vienna
    06 / 1995 - 06 / 1996

Education and Continuing education

Education

  • PhD / Electrical Engineering, Meas. & Control
    Univ. Duisburg, Germany
    02 / 1996 - 12 / 1999
  • Scientist / Dept. of Information and System Technology, Control Laboratory
    TU Delft, Netherlands
    08 / 1998 - 06 / 1999
  • MSc. / Computer Science & Cybernetics
    TU Prague, Czechoslovakia
    01 / 1990 - 06 / 1995
  • Diploma thesis / Robotics
    TU Vienna, Austria
    01 / 1994 - 12 / 1994

Network

Membership of networks

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5408-7653

Awards

Outstanding Engineer Award 2022
IEEE Power & Energy Society Switzerland
12 / 2022

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Books, peer-reviewed

Barocio Espejo, E., Segundo Sevilla, F. R. and Korba, P. (eds) (2023) Monitoring and control of electrical power systems using machine learning techniques. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/C2021-0-00483-1.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Other publications

Oral conference contributions and abstracts