Johannes Schiffer, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
I studied Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and Lund University, Sweden. Then I held appointments as research associate at the Chair of Sustainable Electric Networks and Sources of Energy (2009-2011) and the Control Systems Group (2011-2015) both at TU Berlin, Germany. In 2015, I received a Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from TU Berlin for a thesis on Stability and Power Sharing in Microgrids. From 2015-2018, I was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Smart Energy Systems at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK. I joined Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg as Chair of Control Systems and Network Control Technology in July 2018. Since 2021, I hold a joint professorship of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems (IEG), where I head the Business Area "Control, Automation and Operation Management". Since 2022, I also serve as coordinator of the Energy Innovation Center Cottbus (EIZ) and, since 2023, as coordinator of the EU MSCA Doctoral Network "Dependable Smart Energy Systems" (DENSE).
Research Interests
My main research interests are in distributed control, monitoring and analysis of complex networks with application to microgrids and power systems. Please also see.
Memberships, Advisory and Reviewer Duties
- Member of IEEE Control Systems Society
- Member of IEEE Power & Energy Society
- Member of ETG/GMA Technical Committee on Power System Control and Management (Fachausschuss "Netzregelung und Systemführung")
- BTU C-S Deputy of Research (in 2020)
- BTU C-S representative in Energieallianz Brandenburg
- Regular reviewing activities of scientific proposals (e.g., DFG, EPSRC, NWO, ÖAW, Royal Society) and manuscripts (e.g., Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid)
Awards
- at - Automatisierungstechnik Best paper award 2022 (Applications): A. Krishna, I. Jaramillo-Cajica, S. Auer and J. Schiffer, "A power-hardware-in-the-loop testbed for intelligent operation and control of low-inertia power systems", Automatisierungstechnik, 70, no. 12, pp. 1084-1095, 2022 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/auto-2022-0025/html
- Automatica Paper Prize over the years 2014 - 2016 (Theory/Methodology): J. Schiffer, R. Ortega, A. Astolfi, J. Raisch, and T. Sezi, “Conditions for Stability of Droop-Controlled Inverter-Based Microgrids”, Automatica, 50 (10), pp. 2457-2469, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2014.08.009
Recent Publications
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Talks & Seminars
| Upcoming | |
| 08/2022 | "Energy-Based Control Design to Face the Challenges of Future Power Systems" (together with R. Ortega, ITAM), EECI International Graduate School on Control, Monterrey, Mexico |
| Past | |
| 05/2022 | Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany |
| 05/2022 | DFG SPP 1984 Spring School 2022, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany |
| 10/2021 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 10/2021 | 10th International Scientific Conference on Physics and Control, Fudan University (Online conference) |
| 05/2021 | Virtual seminar at the Hybrid Control Systems (HyConSys) Group |
| 03/2021 | International Workshop on Energy Management in Smart Cities, India (Online workshop) |
| 10/2020 | Key note at 2020 International Conferences on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS2020) & Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment (ICSEE2020), China (Online conference) |
| 05/2020 | Workshop on "Emerging Challenges in Stability, Control and Optimization of Power Systems - Stability Assessment and Closed-Loop Control", European Control Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 02/2020 | TU Munich, Munich, Germany |
| 12/2019 | Fachworkshop "Verteilte Regelung in künftigen Energieversorgungssystemen", Leipzig, Germany |
| 11/2019 | Key note at Energy Open, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 09/2019 | Kolloquium "Kraftwerks- und Netzsysteme", University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 09/2019 | Dynamics Days Europe, Rostock, Germany |
| 07/2019 | Focus Workshop: The Energy Transition & Systemic Dynamics, Collective Dynamics of Power Grid Networks, TU Dresden, Germany |
| 03/2019 | "Energy-Based Control Design to Face the Challenges of Future Power Systems" (together with R. Ortega, CNRS L2S), EECI International Graduate School on Control, Berlin, Germany |
| 03/2019 | VDE/VDI ETG/GMA FA Netzregelung und Systemführung, Hamburg, Germany |
| 02/2019 | International conference on Future Electric Power Systems and the Energy Transition, Champéry, Switzerland |
| 09/2018 | Dynamics Days Europe, Loughborough, UK |
| 07/2018 | Summer School on Complex Networked and Control Systems, Graz, Austria |
| 07/2018 | AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria |
| 04/2018 | National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico |
| 01/2018 | 661. WE-Heraeus Seminar: Nonlinear Dynamics, Optimization and Control of Distributed Energy Systems, Bad Honnef, Germany |
| 09/2017 | Inria, Lille, France |
| 09/2017 | Styrian Workshop on Automatic Control, Graz, Austria |
| 08/2017 | Lund University, Lund, Sweden |
| 05/2017 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 04/2017 | University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 03/2017 | Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China |
| 10/2016 | The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK |
| 08/2016 | University of Warwick, Coventry, UK |
| 08/2016 | ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 07/2016 | Conference on Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics, Berlin, Germany |
| 06/2016 | Workshop on Optimisation and Control for Tomorrow’s Power Systems, European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark |
| 06/2016 | Indo-UK Workshop on Energy Management: Flexibility, Risk and Optimisation, Edinburgh, UK |
| 05/2016 | Imperial College, London, UK |
| 03/2016 | University of Southampton, Southampton, UK |
| 02/2016 | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
| 02/2016 | Durham University, Durham, UK |
| 11/2015 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 08/2015 | University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany |
| 06/2015 | ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 06/2015 | University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany |
| 05/2015 | University of Leeds, Leeds, UK |
| 03/2015 | University of Liege, Liege, Belgium |
| 03/2015 | 48. Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium (48th Control Systems Colloquium), Boppard, Germany |
| 03/2015 | Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany |
| 01/2015 | Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, Supelec, Paris, France |
| 10/2014 | Seminar and visiting scholar, Focus period on dynamics and control in networks, Lund University, Lund, Sweden |
| 06/2014 | Workshop on control of large-scale distributed and cooperating systems: recent achievements within the Network of Excellence HYCON2, European Control Conference (ECC), Strasbourg, France |