Shabab Samimi

Associate Professor in Power Electronics
ESME

Overview of research area

Power electronics, high-power electronic converters, modular multilevel converters, power quality for distribution and transmission grid applications, HVDC, MTDC.

Short biography

Shabab Samimi received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Ecole Centrale Lille, Lille, France, in 2016. Since 2017, she has joined ESME sudria as an Associate Professor. Her research interests include power-electronic converter and power quality for distribution and transmission grid applications, and especially for HVDC transmission grids.

Collaborations in progress

• Collaboration with Arts and Metiers ParisTech in the Laboratoire d’Electrotechnique et d’Electronique de Puissance of Lille (L2EP), for DC-DC converters- based HVDC systems.
• DICIT project (4 years of collaboration between ESME and L2EP).

Publications

• J. Boukhenfouf, S. Samimi, F. Gruson, and M. Merlin, Introducing dissymmetrical inductances in the Modular Multilevel DC converter (M2DC), International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Electric Machines, Converters and Systems (ELECTRIMACS 2024), Castelló, Spain, May 2024.
• G. Shafique, S. Samimi, and F. Gruson, Reduce Order Modeling of the multilevel modular DC/DC converter (M2DC) for HVDC grid, 25th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE’23 ECCE EUROPE), Aalborg, Denmark, September 2023.
• S. Samimi, F. Gruson, P. Delarue, and X. Guillaud, Energy based model and control of Modular Multilevel Converters, COSYS-DC 2017, Grenoble, France, March 2017.
• S. Samimi, F. Gruson, P. Delarue, F. Colas, M. M. Belhaouane, and X. Guillaud, MMC Stored Energy Participation to the DC Bus Voltage Control in an HVDC Link, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 1710-1718, 2016.
• F. Gruson, J. Freytes, S. Samimi, P. Delarue, X. Guillaud, F. Colas, and M.M. Belhaouane , Impact of control algorithm solutions on Modular Multilevel Converters electrical waveforms and losses, 2015 17th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE’15 ECCE-Europe), pp. 1-10, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015.
• S. Samimi, F. Gruson, X. Guillaud, and P. Delarue, Control of DC bus voltage with a Modular Multilevel Converter, 2015 IEEE Eindhoven PowerTech, pp. 1-6, Eindhoven, Netherlands, July 2015.
• S. Samimi, F. Gruson, P. Delarue, and X. Guillaud, Synthesis of different types of energy based controllers for a Modular Multilevel Converter integrated in an HVDC link, 11th IET International Conference on AC and DC Power Transmission, pp. 1-7, Birmingham, UK, February 2015.

PhD in Electrical Engineering

• 2012-2016

  PhD in Electrical Engineering

  Ecole Centrale Lille, Lille, France
• 2011-2012

  Research Master in Electrical Engineering for Sustainable Developement

  Université de Lille 1, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
• 2010-2011

  Master degree in Automatic and Electrical systems

  Université de Lille 1, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
• 2009-2010

  Licence in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Automation

  Université de Lille 1, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
• 1999-2001

  Master of science in Electronics

  Azad University, Teheran, Iran
• 1993-1998

  Bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering (Bio electric)

  Shahid Beheshti University, Teheran, Iran

Associate Professor in Power Electronics

• Since 2017

  Associate Professor in Power Electronics

  ESME, Lille, France