AAU Energy PhD wins prestigious CIGRE Thesis Award

By Ellen Tambjerg, AAU Outreach

Yicheng Liao receives the fifth annual CIGRE Thesis Award, which is awarded to recognize a student’s master or PhD thesis. CIGRE is a global community aiming to develop and share expertise and knowledge withing the field of power systems. The paper based on the PhD thesis will be peer-reviewed and published in the CIGRE Science and Engineering journal.

Before coming to Demnark, Yicheng Liao did her master’s thesis at Southwest Jiaotong University where she worked on stability analysis of railway systems, which is also a power-electronics based power system and paved the way for her subsequent research. This led to the PhD position in the eGRID research group at AAU Energy, and the CIGRE award is also a great recognition to the research group and Yicheng’s supervisor, Professor Xiongfei Wang:

After finalizing her PhD, Yicheng was a postdoc at AAU Energy for four months, before continuing to her current position as a Power System Engineer in the Department of Electrical System Design at Energinet, Denmark. Here Yicheng uses her expertise within the field of power systems to ensure fast and reliable integration of renewable energies to modern power systems, which includes designing the world’s first energy islands and participating in worldwide collaborations, such as the CIGRE working groups. She continues to use the knowledge and skills from her master and PhD studies to contribute and dedicate herself to what she calls the most important action of the 21st century – the green transition.