Dr. Georgios Konstantinou is an Associate Professor in Energy Systems with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney and leads the Real-Time Simulations (RTS@UNSW).
Dr. Konstantinou is also an ARC Future Fellow (FT240100038, 2025 – 2029) for the project “Integration and Stability of Power Electronics Defined Low Inertia Grids.”
Previously, Dr. Konstantinou was an ARC Early Career Research Fellow (Project DE170100370 – High-voltage DC grids for flexible and efficient electricity transmission) looking into the operation of Power Electronics in Multiterminal and HVDC transmission systems.
Dr. Konstantinou received a B. Eng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Power Electronics from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia in August 2012. From 2008 till 2010, Dr. Konstantinou was a Ph.D. student with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney and in April of 2010 joined UNSW Australia for the remainder of the PhD studies. Dr. Konstantinou was a Research Associate (2013) and a Senior Research Associate (2014-2015) with the Australian Energy Research Institute (AERI). In 2015, Dr. Konstantinou was one of the 13 Australians to be accepted in the Australia – China Young Scientist Exchange Program and in 2016 was awarded a Next Steps Initiative Grant for collaborations with Chinese Partners.
Dr. Konstantinou currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
