Petronela Pankovits

Head of the Power Conversion & Renewable Energy Master Program, Assistant professor in Electrical Engineering
ESME

Overview of research area

The fields of interest of Petronela Pankovits include the smartgrids and topics related to power energy management, artificial intelligence, and power systems modeling. She contributed to different R&D and industrial projects dealing with the integration of renewable sources (microgrids), the optimal sizing and energy management of hybrid power systems.

Short biography

Petronela Pankovits received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Lille Nord France in 2015. Her doctoral research focused on the integration of renewable sources into electrical railway substations and was conducted in collaboration with SNCF Innovation & Research Department in Paris. In 2016 she worked as a Post-doctoral researcher at Ecole Centrale de Lille and EDF R&D, contributing to offshore wind turbines projects. From 2019 to 2023, she was lecturer in Electrical Engineering, Power systems and Smart grids at ESILV – Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire, in Paris. Her research projects focused on the optimal design of hybrid renewable power systems with socioeconomic factors. Since 2024, she has joined ESME as an associate professor in Electrical Engineering.

Publications

• V. Borredon, Y. Kaci, Z. Abouliatim, C. Socquet, and P. Pankovits, Comparative design of a stand-alone solar energy system with socioeconomic factors, 11th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid (icSmartGrid), Paris, France, pp. 1-6, June 2023.
• P. Pankovits, D. Abbes, C. Saudemont, S. Brisset, J. Pouget, and B. Robyns, Multi-criteria fuzzy-logic optimized supervision for hybrid railway power substations, Mathematics and Computer in Simulation, MathCom, Elsevier, Issue 130, pp. 236-250, 2016.
• P. Pankovits, J. Pouget, B. Robyns, F. Delhaye, and S. Brisset, Towards Railway-Smartgrid: Energy Management Optimization for Hybrid Railway Power Substations, 5th IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe), Istanbul, Turkey, October 2014.
• P. Pankovits, D. Abbes, C. Saudemont, O. Moumni-Abdou, J. Pouget, and B. Robyns, Energy Management Multi-criteria Design For Hybrid Railway Power Substations, ElectrIMACS, Valencia, Spain, May 2014.
• P. Pankovits et al., CONIFER Project : Innovative concept & tools for Future railway Electrical Infrastructure integrating renewable production sources and storages systems, World Congress on Railway Research, Sydney, Australia, November 2013.
• P. Pankovits, M. Ployard, J. Pouget, S. Brisset, D. Abbes, and B. Robyns, Design and Operation Optimization of a Hybrid Railway Power Substation, 15th Conference EPE 2013 ECCE Europe, Lille, France, September 2013.

PhD in Electrical Engineering

• 2012-2015

  PhD in Electrical Engineering

  University de Lille Nord, Lille, France
• 2009-2011

  Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Energy management of power systems

  Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
• 2005-2009

  Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

  Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Head of the Power Conversion & Renewable Energy Master Program, Assistant professor in Electrical Engineering

• Since 2024

  Head of the Power Conversion & Renewable Energy Master Program, Assistant professor in Electrical Engineering

  ESME, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
• 2019-2023

  Lecturer in Electrical, Electronics & Power Systems Engineering

  ESILV – Pôle Leonard de Vinci, Paris La Défense, France
• 2017-2018

  Musical training and Choir

  Conservatoire de musique d’Ivry sur Seine, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
• 2016

  Postdoctoral researcher

  Ecole Centrale de Lille & EDF R&D, Lille / Saclay, France
• 2012-2015

  R&D engineer

  SNCF Innovation & Research

Awards and Prizes

• 2023

  Best Paper Award

  IEEE icSmartGrid 2023, Paris, France