Gilney Damm is Senior Research Scientist at University Gustave Eiffel, at the Laboratoire Instrumentation, Modélisation, Simulation et Expérimentation - COSYS-IMSE Laboratory. Previously he was Associate Professor at the Paris-Saclay University, France, in the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes – L2S at CentraleSupelec.

He received his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 2010 and Ph.D. in 2001 at Paris-Saclay University; his M.Sc. in automatic control in 1997 and his Bachelor in Electronic Engineer in 1995 at the COPPE – Rio de Janeiro Federal University. His research interests concern nonlinear and adaptive control and observers applied to power systems (SmartGrids, SuperGrid, MicroGrids). His main applications are in the field of large scale renewable energy integration; Multi-Terminal HVDC systems; Variable Speed Pumped Storage Plants; Mixed AC/DC MicroGrids; Control of power generators (transient stabilization, frequency and voltage stability); synchronization of power networks; energy integration in SmartCities.

He has a large experience as coordinator or Work-Package Leader in several European and French research projects as the European Network of Excellence HYCON2 and the European Virtual Smart Grid Lab from the KIC EIT Digital. He is co-leader of the French research forum on SmartGrids.

Currently, his main research activities are connected to the Institutes for Energy Transition SuperGrid (on large scale high voltage electrical grids) and Efficacity (on MicroGrids and SmartCities).

He has received the French research excellence grant (Prime d’Excellence Scientifique) since 2008 and is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee TC 6.3 Power and Energy Systems since 2015. He is Associate Editor from the European Journal of Control since 2010.

Ph.D. students and Post-Docs

Déc. 2021 – en cours  Ph.D.  – Erico Gurski - Adaptive frequency control in microgrids with renewable energy sources – encad. à 20% - thèse en co-encadrement avec l’Université Féderale du Paraná (Brésil).

Sept. 2021 – en cours   Ph.D.  – Zariff Meira Gomes - Commande Décentralisé d’un Système de Recharge Dynamique par Induction – encad. à 70% - thèse en cotutelle avec l’Université Féderale de Bahia (Brésil) et en collaboration avec l’ITE Vedecom.

Avril 2021 – en cours   Ph.D.  – Omer Ekin – Commande hiérarchique d’un réseau mixte AC/DC – encad. à 50% - thèse au Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Allemagne).

Avril 2020 – en cours   Ph.D.  – Liciane Otremba - Stratégie Synchronverter appliquée à l'exploitation d'une unité FPSO intégrée à un parc éolien offshore - encad. à 20% - thèse à l’Université USP (Brésil).

Mars 2020 – en cours Ph.D.  – Edemar de Oliveira Prado - Dynamic bidirectional inductive charging topologies applied to electric vehicles – encad. à 20% - thèse en co-encadrement avec l’Université Féderale de Bahia (Brésil) et en collaboration avec l’ITE Vedecom.

Jan. 2020 – Jan. 2022 Ph.D. – Luis Normandia Lourenço – Système de commande de Convertisseurs MMC pour créer de services systèmes rapides – encad. à 20% - thèse en cotutelle avec l’Université USP (Brésil).

Mars 2016 – Déc. 2020  Ph.D.  – Guacira Costa de Oliveira – Système de commande de réseaux électriques multi terminaux à courant continu – encad. à 40% - thèse en cotutelle avec l’Université USP (Brésil) et Polytechnique de Madrid (Espagne).

March 2016 – Current Ph.D. – Filipe Perez – Control of AC/DC MicroGrids – thesis in co-direction with University UNIFEI (Brazil) in collaboration with Efficacity Institute.

Jan. 2015 – April 2019 Ph.D. – Sabah Siad – Modeling and control of DC MicroGrids – in collaboration with Efficacity Institute.

Jan. 2016 – Janv. 2019 Ph.D. – Juan Carlos Gonzalez Torres – Transient stability of high voltage AC-DC electric transmission systems – in collaboration with EDF and SuperGrid Institute.

Oct. 2016 – April 2018 Post-Doc – Alessio Iovine – AC/DC MicroGrids at Efficacity Institute.

Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2017 Ph.D. – Janailson Rodrigues Lima – Variable Speed Pumped Storage Plants Multi-Time Scale Control to Allow its Use to Power System Stability –in collaboration with GE Hydro and SuperGrid Institute.

Jan. 2014 – April 2016 Ph.D. – Alessio Iovine – Nonlinear and Hybrid Control Techniques for MicroGrids and Autonomous Vehicles– in co-direction with Aquila university (Italy).

Sept. 2013 – Feb. 2015 Post-Doc – Van Cuong Nguyen – Nonlinear Control of electric grids.

Jan. 2012 – March 2015 Ph.D. – Miguel Jimenez Carrizosa – Hierarchical control scheme for multi-terminal high voltage direct current power networks – in collaboration with Alstom Grid.

Oct. 2011 – March 2015 Ph.D. – Yijing Chen – Nonlinear Control and Stability Analysis of Multi-Terminal HighVoltage Direct Current Networks – in collaboration with Alstom Grid.

Oct. 2011 – – Dec. 2012 Post-Doc – Jing Dai – Decentralized secondary control of Multi-Terminal HVDC networks

Nov. 2009 – June 2013 Ph.D. – Van Cuong Nguyen – Embedded control for an air-launch drone.

Sept. 2006 – Dec. 2009 Ph.D. – Khadidja Benzenmrane – Nonlinear observers for drones.

May. 2004 – May 2005 Ph.D. – Cristiano Maria Verrelli – Nonlinear Control Design for Induction Motors and Synchronous Generatorsin co-direction with Rome University -Tor Vergata.

Feb. 2005 – Dec. 2005 Post-Doc – Raphael Goma, Test bed implementation of the control of power generators – HYCON Network of Excellence.

Feb. 2005 – Dec. 2005 Post-Doc – Salah.LaghroucheHybrid control of power generators – HYCON Network of Excellence.