K.N.Tousi University of Technology

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering

    Department of Power Systems

    Distribution Systems and Energy Management Lab.

Biography:

Masoud Aliakbar Golkar was born in Tehran Iran in 1954. He received his BSc degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran-Iran in 1977, MSc from the Oklahoma State University USA in 1979, and his PhD degree from the Imperial college of Science, technology, and Medicine  (The University of London, UK) in 1986, all in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems).
Since 1979 he has been teaching and doing research at K N Toosi University of Technology. Dr Golkar is the advisor of the Tehran Electricity Board, Shiraz Electricity Board, and Bandar Abbas Electricity Board in the field of Distribution Systems. He has worked part time as the head of research group for Distribution studies at Electric Power Research center (EPRC) for more than 10 years.
From Jan 2002 to July 2005 Dr Golkar has served as a Senior Lecturer at  Curtin University of Technology in Malaysia.
His main Research areas are Distributed Generation Studies, Smart Grid, Reactive Power Studies, Loss calculations and Reduction in Distribution Systems, Power system Studies, Distribution System Optimization & automation, voltage Collapse Studies, Distribution Systems study by Probabilistic Methods, Renewable Energy Studies, and Load and Energy Management.