Currently I do not have funded doctoral or postdoctoral research positions.  Positions that may become available in the future will be advertised through www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk.

I am always happy however, to consider exceptional candidates  with outstanding educational and/or research background from leading international universities.

The funding opportunities for PhD studies at The University of Manchester (UoM) include  EPSRC CDT in Power Networks (http://www.power-networks-cdt.manchester.ac.uk/),  UoM Funding Database (http://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding/) and the UoM President’s Doctoral Scholar Awards (http://www.presidentsaward.manchester.ac.uk/).

 Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering, UK

 Fellow of the IEEE

 Foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Engineering Sciences

 Fellow of the IET

 Chartered Engineer in the UK

 Honorary member of CIRED Serbia

 IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer

2024 – to date, Member of the IEEE Data Descriptions Steering Committee

2024 –  Member of IEEE PES Governing Board, Executive Committee &  Financial Committee 

2024 –  IEEE PES Vice President Publications

2022 – 2024,  Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions of Power Systems

2022-2024,  Member of IEEE Fellows Committee

2022 – Member (Chair of Study Committee 3: 01/2022 - 01/2024) of IEEE PES Long Range Planning Committee 

2021-2024, Member of IEEE PES Industry Technical Support Leadership Committee

2019-2022, Chair (Member from Oct. 2017) of the IEEE Herman Halperin Transmission & Distribution Award Committee

2016-2019, Member & Vice-Chair of  IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Fellows Evaluation Committee

2015-2021, Member of IEEE PES  Governing Board,

2015-202,  IEEE PES  Region Representative for Europe, Africa & Middle East

2016-2021, Member of the evaluation committee for IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturers

Member of the Independent Net Zero Advisory Council, Scottish Power Energy Networks  (Nov 2022 – )

Member of the International Advisory Board, El. Eng.  Institute “Nikola Tesla”, Belgrade, Serbia (June 2022 - )

Member of the Electricity North West Ltd. Customer Engagement Group (May 2019 – Dec 2022)

Member of the Rolls-Royce Plc. Executive Advisory Board (Research and Technology – Energy: Electrical, Control Systems & Electronics) (Feb 2010 – Feb 2016)

• Dipl.Ing. (Elec. Eng.), The University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• M.Sc. (Elec. Eng.), The University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• Ph.D. (Elec. Eng.), The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
• D.Sc. (Elec. Eng.), The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Research Group(s)

• Electrical Energy and Power Systems

I joined The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST) in January 1998. From April 2007 I have been a member of School(Department since 8/2019) Leadership Team,  as  Director of Research (4/2007-4/2010),  Director of External Affairs (5/2010-8/2019),  Director of Business Engagement  (9/2015-9/2017), Director of Internationalisation (9/2015-9/2019) and Deputy Head of School (10/2013-8/2022). I was Head of Electrical Energy and Power Systems Group between (2/2014-1/2016) and Head of Department (1/2023-7/2025).   I am  Visiting Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad,  Serbia (1/2010-) and the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia (7/2015-) and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia (1/2023 -).

Prior to joining The University of Manchester I worked with Energoprojekt, engineering and consulting company in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (http://eng.energoprojekt.rs/), University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia (http://www.etf.bg.ac.rs) and the universities of Newcastle (http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/electrical-engineering-computer-science/) and Tasmania (http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/eng/people.asp) in Australia. As Lecturer in Power Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Tasmania, I co-established with, then Dr Michael Negnevitsky, one of Australia's first (if not the first) centres for power quality research.

My research and consultancy work  over the years has been equally split between the areas of Power System Dynamics and Power Quality with a common, underlying stream of probabilistic / stochastic modelling of uncertainties of events and system parameters. As far as my contribution to national and international industry is concerned, apart from some software tools/solutions developed by my team of researchers and occasional consultancy work, it  is probably best reflected  through my involvement in development of industrial guidelines and best practices as a member of CIGRE/CIRED/IEEE Working Groups. I  was a member of several CIGRE/CIRED/IEEE  WGs and a  convenor of CIGRE WG C4.605 "Modelling and aggregation of loads in flexible power networks", CIGRE/CIRED JWG C4.112 "Guidelines for power quality monitoring, analysis and presentation of results"  (http://www.e-cigre.org/) and a co-chair of IEEE TF " Stability definitions and characterisation of dynamic behaviour in systems with high penetration of power electronic interfaced technologies ".

In industry advisory capacity I  served as a member of Rolls-Royce Plc. Executive Advisory Board (Research and Technology – Energy: Electrical, Control Systems & Electronics) (Feb 2010 – Feb 2016) Member   of the Customer Engagement Group of Electricity North West Ltd (5/2019 – 12/2022), Member of the Independent Net Zero Advisory Council, Scottish Power Energy Networks  (11/2022 – ) and  Member of the International Advisory Board, El. Eng.  Institute “Nikola Tesla”, Belgrade, Serbia (6/2022 - )

In addition to being involved in tens of technical and programme committees of international conferences I was Chairman of the   7th IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (EuroPES 2007), Vice-Chairman of Local Organising Committee of the 16th Power System Computation Conference (PSCC 2008), Chairman of the 2nd IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Europe, (ISGT PES-Europe 2011), Chairman of the  12th IEEE PES PowerTech Conference, (PowerTech Manchester 2017),  Chairman of the  17th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2022) and Honorary Vice-Chair of the  15th IEEE PES PowerTech Conference, (PowerTech Belgrade 2023).  

The results of research in general areas of   Power System Dynamics and Power Quality  that I  was fortunate   to be able to carry out  over the  years with my teams of exceptionally  talented and  hard-working Postdoctoral Research Associates (about 30), PhD students (40+),  MSc students (90+) and  academic visitors (20+) are published in over 650 research publications (including over 100  papers in IEEE Transactions)  and presented at over 200 academic and  industrial courses, lectures and key notes at international conferences that I  have given around the world.

My research interests are still in the area of probabilistic studies of uncertain systems and currently include:

• Probabilistic modelling and analysis of uncertain and complex interconnected systems 
• Demand forecasting, flexibility, management and load modelling
• Application of Data Analytics and Machine Learning to power systems
• Close to real time assessment of power system dynamic behaviour
• Risk based stability assessment and control of power systems
• Modelling and operation of interconnected power networks with Low Carbon demand and generation technologies.
• Global assessment/mitigation of Power Quality in sparsely monitored networks