DrJoan Marc Rodriguez Bernuz

Joan Marc Rodriguez is a Research Associate at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. He obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees in energy engineering from the Barcelona College of Industrial Engineering (EUETIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2013 and 2015 respectively. He obtained his PhD degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Imperial College London in 2019. Since then, he has been working as a research associate for the RENGA project (EP/R030235/1) to develop solutions to expand electrical power system in developing rural areas.

His current research interests include the control of power electronic converters for renewable energy technologies and HVDC power transmission. Specifically, his doctoral research explored the development of novel controllers based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) to optimise the performance of Modular Multilevel Converters. Currently, his work focuses on the design of power converters for small scale autonomous minigrids.