Lieven Vandevelde

Prof. Lieven Vandevelde, Ph.D.

Senior full professor

Inter utrumque
Inter utrumque refers to:
  • the original motto of Ghent University.
    In contemporary terms, this means:

    a university between science and society.

  • […] inter utrumque tene!

    Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses II, 140
Lieven Vandevelde

Lieven Vandevelde (1968, Eeklo, Belgium) is senior full professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University, Belgium.
He graduated in electrical & mechanical engineering (main subject: electrical power engineering) at Ghent University in 1992 and has since been with the Energy & Systems Lab (EnSy), a research group within the Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering of Ghent University. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical & mechanical engineering from Ghent University in 1997, and has conducted research in various domains of electrical power engineering, inter alia electrical machines (in particular noise and vibrations) and (computational) electromagnetics. Since 2004, he has been member of the professorial staff and has been coordinating the research on electric power systems at EnSy. In this research, grid integration of renewable energy, electric flexibility and power system control play a prominent role.

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News

Our latest article in the field of wind energy, entitled A dimensionless state-space representation of wind turbines under sub-maximum power point operation and load-aware active power control, has been published in Renewable Energy. The article has free access till 22 October via this share link.

The research has been carried out in the frame of the SALOME and ICONIC projects.

A new version (v0.3.0) of minerva-thesis, a Typst thesis template using both generic and Ghent University specific functions and features, has been published on GitHub (including documentation and examples) and Typst Universe.

Our latest article in the field of microgrids and power electronics, entitled Circulating-current-driven distributed secondary control for accurate reactive, harmonic, and unbalanced power sharing in islanded microgrids with hybrid GFM/GFL inverters, has been published open access in the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems.

Our latest article in the field of microgrids, entitled Communication-efficient distributed secondary control for accurate reactive and harmonic power sharing in stand-alone AC microgrids under switching communication topologies, has been published open access in Scientific Reports (in press).

Ghent University organises a new edition of the post-academic course Offshore Wind Energy in 2026-2027. The course consists of three tracks, the first of which is now open for registration: