Josep Guerrero

Josep M. Guerrero (S’01–M’04–SM’08–F’15) received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering, the M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering, and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. Expanding his interdisciplinary scope, he received the M.Sc. degree in Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience from the Institute of Neuroscience, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, in 2022, and the M.Sc. degree in Sleep: Physiology and Medicine from the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, in 2023. He was a Full Professor with AAU Energy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, from 2011 to 2025, where he founded and led the Microgrid Research Program. From 2019 to 2024, he was a Villum Investigator supported by the Villum Fonden and founded the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM). He served as an ICREA Research Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia from 2023 to 2024. Since 2024, he has been Director of CROM at Huanjiang Laboratory, Zhuji, Shaoxing, China. Since 2025, he has been a Distinguished Senior Researcher with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain. In 2026, he joined the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, as a Distinguished Professor. His research interests include microgrids, power electronics, cyber-physical energy systems, maritime and aerospace energy systems, neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence, bio-inspired computing, and quantum communication for complex networks. Prof. Guerrero is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE). He is an Associate Editor for several IEEE Transactions. He has published more than 1,000 journal papers, with over 150,000 citations, and was a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher from 2014 to 2023. He received the IEEE Bimal Bose Award (2021), the IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Award (2022), the IEEE Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award (2023), the Zhejiang West Lake Friendship Award (2025), and the IEEE IES Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2026).