Background

Damian Giaouris was born in Munich, Germany, in 1976. He received the:

• Diploma of Automation Engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2000
• MSc in Automation and Control from Newcastle University in 2001
• PhD degree in the area of control and stability of induction machine drives from Newcastle University in 2004
• BSc in Mathematics from the Open University, UK, in 2009
• Postgraduate Certificate in Mathematics from the Open University, UK, in 2011.

He was a Lecturer in Control Systems at Newcastle University from 2004, before moving to the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece, at the Chemical Process Engineering and Energy Resources Institute – The Laboratory of Process Systems Design and Implementation, in 2011.

Since 2015, he has been a Senior Lecturer with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering group in the School of Engineering, Newcastle University. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor in IEE IET Power Electronics and he has been a Guest Editor of IEEE JETCAS.

His research interests include nonlinear dynamics of electrical systems, distributed energy systems, smart grids, electric vehicles and energy management. He has more than 100 publications and 1000 citations.

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Research

Damian is with the Electrical Power research group and his profile can be viewed on Google Scholar.

Teaching

EEE8086/8115 - Robust and Adaptive Control Systems

EEE8013/3001 -Linear Controller Design and State Space Analysis

https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/damian.giaouris/teaching.html

 

Publications

• Giaouris D, Papadopoulos A, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S, Seferlis P. A Power Grand Composite Curves Approach for Analysis and Adaptive Operation of Renewable Energy Smart Grids. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 2015, 17(5), 1171-1193.
• Giaouris D, Banerjee S, Mandal K, Al-Hindawi M, Abusorrah A, Al-Turki Y, El-Aroudi A. Analysis of Discontinuity Induced Bifurcations in a Dual Input DC-DC Converter. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 2015, 25(05), 1-10.
• Hayes B, Condon M, Giaouris D. Design of PID Controllers using Filippov's Method for Stable Operation of DC-DC Converters. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 2015, 62(11), 7073-7078.
• El-Aroudi A, Mandal K, Giaouris D, Banerjee S, Abusorrah A, Al-Hindawi M, Al-Turki Y. Fast-scale stability limits of a two-stage boost power converter. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 2016, 44(5), 1127-1141.
• Mandal K, El-Aroudi A, Giaouris D, Abusorrah A, Al-Hindawi M, Al-Turki Y, Banerjee S. Instabilities in Resonant DC-DC Converters. IET Power Electronics 2015. In Press.
• Hutchison G, Zahawi B, Harmer K, Gadoue S, Giaouris D. Non-invasive identification of turbo-generator parameters from actual transient network data. IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 2015, 9(11), 1129-1136.
• Yfoulis C, Giaouris D, Stergiopoulos F, Ziogou C, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S. Robust constrained stabilization of boost DC–DC converters through bifurcation analysis. Control Engineering Practice 2015, 35, 67-82.
• Mehran K, Zahawi B, Giaouris D. Stability Analysis of Sliding-Grazing Phenomenon in Dry-Friction Oscillator using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Approach. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics 2015, 10(6), 061010.
• Chatziagorakis P, Elmasides C, Sirakoulis G, Karafyllidis I, Andreadis I, Georgoulas N, Giaouris D, Papadopoulos A, Ziogou C, Ipsakis D, Papadopoulou S, Seferlis P, Stergiopoulos F, Voutetakis F. Cellular Automata Model with Game Theory for Power Management of Hybrid Renewable Energy Smart Grids. Cellular Automata 2014, 8751, 248-257.
• Giaouris D, Banerjee S, Stergiopoulos F, Papadopoulou S, Voutetakis S, Zahawi B, Pickert V, Abusorrah A, Al Hindawi M, Al-Turki Y. Foldings and grazings of tori in current controlled interleaved boost converters. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 2014, 42(10), 1080-1091.
• Al-Hindawi A, Abusorrah A, Al-Turki Y, Giaouris D, Mandal K, Banerjee S. Nonlinear Dynamics and Bifurcation Analysis of a Boost Converter for Battery Charging in Photovoltaic Applications. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 2014, 24(11), 1450142.
• Hodgson D, Mecrow BC, Gadoue SM, Slater HJ, Barrass PG, Giaouris D. Effect of vehicle mass changes on the accuracy of Kalman filter estimation of electric vehicle speed. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation 2013, 3(3), 67-78.
• Giaouris D, Papadopoulos A, Ziogou C, Ipsakis I, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S, Seferlis P, Stergiopoulos F, Elmasides F. Performance investigation of a hybrid renewable power generation and storage system using systemic power management models. Energy 2013.
• Abusorrah A, Al-Hindawi M, Al-Turki Y, Mandal K, Giaouris D, Banerjee S, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S. Stability of a boost converter fed from photovoltaic source. Solar Energy 2013.
• Gadoue SM, Giaouris D, Finch JW. Stator current model reference adaptive systems speed estimator for regenerating-mode low-speed operation of sensorless induction motor drives . IET Electric Power Applications 2013, 7(7), 597-606.
• Musa I, Zahawi B, Gadoue SM, Giaouris D. Integration of Distributed Generation for Network Loss Minimization and Voltage Support using Particle Swarm Optimization. In: 6th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2012). 2012, Bristol, UK: IET.
• Mehran K, Giaouris D, Zahawi B. Investigation of the near-grazing behavior in hard-impact oscillators using model-based TS fuzzy approach. Nonlinear Dynamics 2012, 69(3), 1293-1309.
• Banerjee S, Giaouris D, Missailidis P, Imrayed O. Local bifurcations of a quasiperiodic orbit. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering 2012, 22(12), 1250289.
• Giaouris D, Stergiopoulos F, Ziogou C, Ipsakis D, Banerjee S, Zahawi B, Pickert V, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S. Nonlinear Stability Analysis and a New Design Methodology for a PEM Fuel Cell Fed DC-DC Boost Converter. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2012.
• Mehran K, Giaouris D, Zahawi B. Stability Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Phenomena in Boost Converters using Model-Based Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Approach. IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems I 2010.
• Aroudi A, Giaouris D, Iu H, Hiskens I. A Review on Stability Analysis Methods for Switching Mode Power Converters. IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems 2016, 5(3), 302-315.
• Aroudi A, Giaouris D, Mandal K, Banerjee S, Al-Hindawi M, Abusorrah A, Al-Turki Y. Complex non-linear phenomena and stability analysis of interconnected power converters used in distributed power systems. IET Power Electronics 2016, 9(5), 855-863.
• Giaouris D, Papadopoulos A, Seferlis P, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S. Power grand composite curves shaping for adaptive energy management of hybrid microgrids. Renewable Energy 2016, 95, 433-448.
• Algreer M, Armstrong M, Giaouris D. Predictive PID Controller for DC-DC Converters Using an Adaptive Prediction Error Filter. In: IET 6th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines & Drives (PEMD 2012). 2012, Bristol, UK: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
• Gkizas G, Yfoulis C, Amanatidis C, Stergiopoulos F, Giaouris D, Ziogou C, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S. Digital state-feedback control of an interleaved DC–DC boost converter with bifurcation analysis. Control Engineering Practice 2018, 73, 100-111.
• Khawaja Yara, Giaouris Damian, Patsios Haris, Dahidah MSA. Optimal cost-based model for sizing grid-connected PV and battery energy system. In: 2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT). 2018, Aqaba, Jordan: IEEE.
• El Aroudi A, Mandal K, Abusorrah A, Al-Hindawi M, Al-Turki Y, Giaouris D, Banerjee S. A novel nonlinear modulation technique for stabilizing DC-DC switching converters. In: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Abusorrah A, Mandal K, Giaouris D, El Aroudi A, Al-Hindawi MM, Al-Turki Y, Banerjee S. Avoiding instabilities in power electronic systems: Toward an on-chip implementation. IET Power Electronics 2017, 10(13), 1778-1787.
• Mandal K, Abusorrah A, Al-Hindawi MM, Al-Turki Y, El Aroudi A, Giaouris D, Banerjee S. Control-oriented design guidelines to extend the stability margin of switching converters. In: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Hayes B, Condon M, Giaouris D. Design of robust digitally controlled DC-DC converters in the presence of strong interference. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications 2017, 45(11), 1742-1759.
• El Aroudi A, Mandal K, Giaouris D, Banerjee S. Self-compensation of DC-DC converters under peak current mode control. Electronics Letters 2017, 53(5), 345-347.
• Wu H, Pickert V, Giaouris D, Ji B. Nonlinear analysis and control of interleaved boost converters using real-time cycle to cycle variable slope compensation. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2017, 32(2), 7256-7270.
• Yfoulis C, Giaouris D, Ziogou C, Stergiopoulos F, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S. Optimal energy-based stabilizing controllers for DC-DC converters. In: 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2016. 2016, Athens, Greece: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Gkizas G, Amanatidis C, Yfoulis C, Stergiopoulos F, Giaouris D, Ziogou C, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S. State-feedback control of an interleaved DC-DC boost converter. In: 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2016. 2016, IEEE.
• Ziogou C, Giaouris D, Papadopoulou S, Voutetakis S. Supervisory Control and Monitoring of a Hybrid High Temperature PEM Fuel Cell System with Li-Ion Batteries and an LPG Reformer. In: PRES2016: 19th International Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction. 2016, Prague: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.
• Wu H, Pickert V, Giaouris D. Nonlinear analysis for interleaved boost converters based on monodromy matrix. In: 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2014). 2014, Pittsburgh, PA, USA: IEEE.
• Wu H, Pickert V, Deng X, Giaouris D, Li W, He X. Polynomial Curve Slope Compensation for Peak Current Mode Controlled Power Converters. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2019, 66(1), 470-481.
• Imrayed O, Zahawi B, Giaouris D, Pickert V. Reduced inductance in DC-DC converter circuits via the application of filippov's method. In: IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Advanced Technologies and Engineering Design. 2010, Aberdeen, UK: Springer Verlag.
• Giaouris D, Papadopoulos A, Patsios C, Walker S, Ziogou C, Taylor P, Voutetakis S, Papadopoulou S, Seferlis P. A Systems Approach for Management of Microgrids Considering Multiple Energy Carriers, Stochastic Loads, Forecasting and Demand Side Response. Applied Energy 2018, 226, 546-559.
• Spiliopoulos N, Wade N, Giaouris D, Taylor P, Rajarathnam U. Benefits of lithium-ion batteries for domestic users under TOU tariffs. In: 52nd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2017, Heraklion, Greece: IEEE.