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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Power Systems Team, CSIRO Julio is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with the Power Systems Team at CSIRO, providing scientific leadership and expert advice on the transition to affordable, reliable, and secure low-emission electricity systems. His research focuses on dynamic network capacity allocation methodologies for distributed energy resources and the application of distribution-level power electronics technologies to maximise utilisation of local electricity networks. He currently leads the $5.6 million 2024–2027 CSIRO Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS) Global Centre, in partnership with the University of Melbourne and Monash University. The project is part of a National Science Foundation Global Centre collaboration involving 26 researchers from eight universities, a government agency, and a nonprofit organisation across the US, UK, and Australia. Julio earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle (1996) and has held academic positions in Belgium, the US, Argentina, and Australia. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. |