CURRICULUM VITAE
Current Positions:
Manager power quality and EMC, STRI AB, Ludvika, Sweden, since November 2003.
Guest professor, Luleå University of Technology, Skellefteå, Sweden, since June 2004.
Fields of expertise:
Electric power quality
Power-system reliability
Power-system design and protection
Biography
I received the MSc and PhD degrees from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands in 1985 and 1989, respectively. My MSc research concerned the propagation of
electromagnetic waves in time-varying inhomogeneous media. My PhD concerned the protection of
high-voltage lines by using information from travelling waves. The link between the MSc and PhD
were obviously Maxwell’s equations.
After my PhD I started a post-doctoral research on design and reliability of industrial power system. It
was here I first came in contact with power quality, especially with voltage dips. During 1992 I spend
three months at Curacao to work on reliability of island power systems.
From 1993 through 1996 I was a lecturer at the department of electrical engineering, UMIST,
Manchester, UK, where I became heavily involved in teaching and started my own research group on
power quality. The power quality work and undergraduate teaching continued after my move to
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1996. I further extended my work
through cooperation with a number of nearby areas like signal-processing and power electronics.
In 2003 I left Chalmers for STRI, a independent technology consultancy company and high-voltage
laborory company located in Ludvika, Sweden. At STRI I am in charge of all activities within the
technical area EMC and power quality. During my time at STRI this area became extended with
reliability studies and distributed generation.
In 2004 I accepted an offer to start as a guest professor at Luleå University of Technology, within the
EMC-on-Site group, where I have the scientific management of the research activities.
Through my almost 20 years of work on power quality, I have published a number of well-received
papers on power quality and two text books on the subject.
Publications, etc.
Books and book chapters
Contributions to standards
Refereed journals
Other journals
Major conferences
Other Conferences
Other publications
MSc projects supervised
PhD/Lic projects supervised/examined
Industrial courses and tutorials
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External PhD/Lic examinations
Externally funded academic research projects
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Selection of Publications
1. M.H.J. Bollen, Understanding power quality problems: voltage sags and interruptions, IEEE
Press, 2000.
2. Math Bollen, Irene Gu, Signal processing of power-quality disturbances, Wiley/IEEE Press,
July 2006.
3. M.H.J. Bollen, Travelling-wave-based protection of double-circuit lines, IEE Proceedings-C,
Vol.140, no.1, Jan. 1993, pp.37-47.
4. M.H.J. Bollen, Method for reliability analysis of industrial distribution systems. IEE
Proceedings-C, vol.140, no.6, Nov. 1993, pp.497-502.
5. M.H.J. Bollen, The influence of motor re-acceleration on voltage sags, IEEE Transactions on
Industry Applications, Vol.31, no.4, July 1995, pp.667-674.
6. M.H.J. Bollen, Fast assessment methods for voltage sags in distribution systems, IEEE
Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol.31, no.6, Nov. 1996, pp.1414-1423.
7. M.H.J. Bollen, Characterisation of voltage sags experienced by three-phase adjustable-speed
drives, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol.12, no.4, Oct. 1997, pp.1666-1671.
8. L.E. Conrad, M.H.J. Bollen, Voltage sag coordination for reliable plant operation, IEEE
Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol.33, no.6, Nov. 1997, pp.1459-1464.
9. J. Arrillaga, M.H.J. Bollen, N.R. Watson, Power quality following deregulation, Proceedings
IEEE, Vol.88, no.2, Feb. 2000, pp.246-261.
10. L.D. Zhang, M.H.J. Bollen, Characteristics of voltage dips (sags) in power systems, IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol.15, no.2 (April 2000), pp.827-832.
11. J. van Casteren, M.H.J. Bollen, M. Schmieg, Reliability assessment in electrical power systems:
the Weibull-Markov stochastic model, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol.36,
No.3, May/June 2000, pp.911-915.
12. Y.H. Gu, M.H.J. Bollen, Time-frequency and time-scale domain analysis of voltage
disturbances, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol.15, no.4; Oct. 2000; p.1279-84.
13. M.H.J. Bollen, Effects of adverse weather and aging on power system reliability, IEEE
Transactions on Industry Applications, vol.37, no.2; March-April 2001; p.452-7.
14. E. Styvaktakis, M.H.J. Bollen, I.Y.H. Gu, Expert system for classification and analysis of power
system events, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol.17, No.2, April 2002, pp.423-428.
15. M.H.J. Bollen, What is power quality? Electric power systems research, Vol.66, No.1, July
2003, pp.5-14.
16. Sannino, G. Postiglione, M.H.J. Bollen, Feasibility of a DC Network for Commercial Facilities,
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol.39, No.5, September/October 2003, pp.14991507.
17. M.H.J. Bollen, P. Goossens, A. Robert, Assessment of voltage dips in HV networks: deduction
of complex voltages from the measured rms voltages, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery,
Vol. 19, no.2, April 2004, pp.783-790.
18. H. Awad, J. Svensson, M.H.J. Bollen, Mitigation of unbalanced voltage dips using static series
compensator, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol.19, no.3 (May 2004), pp.837-846.
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19. M.H.J. Bollen, A. Sannino, Voltage control with inverter-based distributed generation, IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol.20, No.1, January 2005, pp-519-520.
20. S. Basu, M.H.J. Bollen, A novel power factor correction scheme for homes and offices, IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol.20, No.3 (July 2005), p.2257-2263.
21. P.G.V. Axelberg, M.H.J. Bollen, An algorithm for determining the direction to a flicker source,
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol.21, no.2, April 2006, pp.755-760.
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