Hakan Ergun

Hakan Ergun, born in Leoben Austria, obtained his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in October 2009. In February 2010 he has joined the Electa Research Group at KU Leuven, Belgium where he obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering in January 2015. He was a postdoctoral researcher until 2018 and is nowa research expert at KU Leuven / EnergyVille.

His main research interests are optimization methods in power system planning, power system modelling, power system reliability, electricity markets and regulation. To this date he has worked in several national and international research projects on several aspects of power system modelling and optimization.

He has published several papers in international scientific journals and conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE and is an active member of CIGRE. He has been in the local organization committee of the IEEE EnergyCon 2016 conference in Leuven. He is a vice chair of the IEEE PES/PELS/IAS Benelux Chapter and has been the chapter chair between 2017 and 2018. He is an associate editor with the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.