Dimitra ApostolopoulouResearch Fellow, The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK

Dimitra is a Research Fellow in the Electricity Research Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) and a Lecturer at Christ Church College, University of Oxford, working on economics and regulation of the electricity sector. She obtained her PhD and MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 and 2011, respectively. Before joining OIES she was a Lecturer in the Engineering Department at City, University of London. She was also the Programme Director for the MSc in Renewable Energy and Power Systems Management; a member of the Energy, Sustainability and Net-Zero Research Centre and the Artificial Intelligence Research Centre both at City, University of London. Prior to her tenure at City, Dimitra was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Engineering Department at the University of Oxford. Her diverse experience extends to the industry as well; she previously worked at the Smart Grid & Technology Department at Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) in Chicago, Illinois—a unit of Exelon Corp. that serves approximately 3.8 million customers. She has been actively participating in working groups and other professional service activities, such as being Co-organiser of Risk and Resilience Day 2023, EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub and has been invited to give seminars at various places, such as Imperial College London and King’s College London, UK; Argonne National Laboratory, US; and MINES ParisTech, France.