Research profile

Guoqing Gao received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2017, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2020, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2024.

Since 2024, he has been with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, as a Post-Doctoral Researcher. He is currently a Carlsberg Internationalisation Postdoctoral Fellow collaborating with Imperial College London, the University of Oxford, and Aalborg University.

His professional services, invited activities, and conference contributions include:

• CIGRE Working Group Member, JWG C4/A3.79: Temporary Overvoltage Protection Technologies for High-Voltage Transmission Systems with Large-Scale Renewable Energy Bases.
• IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Task Force Member, Modelling and Dynamic Stability Impact of Grid Enhancing Technologies in Inverter-Based Resource Rich Systems.
• IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Task Force Member, Cross-Sector Energy System Resilience Under Climate Change.
• Invited Tutorial Speaker, “Control and Protection of Power Electronics-Dominated Power System,” at the 11th International Conference on Power Electronics Systems and Applications (PESA 2026), Singapore.
• Editorial Board Member for npj Power Electronics
• Associate Editor for Open Journal of Power Electronics
• CIGRE Denmark Next Generation Network (NGN) Member.
• Invited Industry Speaker, having delivered six invited technical talks to leading power and energy companies, including Ørsted (Denmark), Hitachi Energy (Sweden and India), Nanrui Group (China), and Energinet (Denmark), covering converter-dominated power systems, transient stability, grid-forming control, protection coordination, and HVDC-connected offshore wind farms, 2021–2026.
• Leading Special Session Chair for the 2026 IEEE IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Asia Conference (IEEE I&CPS Asia 2026), the International Symposium on Energy Storage and Conversion (ISESC 2026), and the 2027 International Conference on Electric Power and Renewable Energy (EPREC 2027).
• Leading Editor for Electronics Special Issues on “Advancing Power System Intelligence: AI-Based Forecasting, Operation, and Control” and “Analysis, Modelling, and Control of Power Converters.”
• Guest Editor for Frontiers in Energy Research.
• Young Editorial Board Member for Carbon Neutral Systems.
• Publication Committee Member for IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2026.
• Peer Reviewer for several leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, among others.
• Oral Presenter at major international conferences, including IEEE PowerTech 2025, ECCE Europe 2023, IEEE PEDG 2023, IEEE PEDG 2022, ECCE Asia 2019, and PEDG 2019.

His research interests include the control, protection, and stability analysis of power-electronic-converter-dominated power systems, with particular emphasis on grid-forming converters, converter-interfaced renewable energy systems, HVDC-connected offshore wind farms, transient stability, and protection coordination.

Teaching profile

Teaching, Supervision, and Academic Mentoring

• Supervised 6 Master's students and co-supervised 5 PhD students, including international visiting researchers and exchange students.
• Awarded the Aalborg University Teaching Certificate in Problem-Based Learning (PBL).
• Applied Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and active-learning approaches in teaching and supervision, complemented by pedagogical experience with interdisciplinary education.