Zhe Chen (M’95, SM’98) received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from Northeast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering, Jilin City, China, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Durham, U.K.

He was a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer with De Montfort University, U.K. Since 2002, He became a Research Professor and is now a Professor with the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the coordinator of Wind Power System Research program at the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University. His research areas are power systems, power electronics and electric machines; and his main current research interests are wind energy and modern power systems. He has more than 190 publications in his technical field.

Dr Chen is an Associate Editor (Renewable Energy) of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Guest Editor of the IEEE Trans. on PE on Special Issue on Power Electronics for Wind Energy Conversion. He is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (London, U.K.), and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.