Elizabeth Ratnam

Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia

Dr. Ratnam was awarded a BEng (Hons I) degree in Electrical Engineering in 2006 and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 2016 from the University of Newcastle, Australia. She subsequently held postdoctoral research positions with the Center for Energy Research at the University of California, San Diego, and at the University of California, Berkeley, within the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE).
From 2001 to 2012, she held various positions at Ausgrid, a utility operating one of the largest electricity distribution networks in Australia. Since 2018, Dr. Ratnam has held a Future Engineering Research Leader (FERL) Fellowship at The Australian National University (ANU), where she served as a Senior Lecturer in the ANU School of Engineering and as a Sub-Dean for Educational Programs at the College of Engineering & Computer Science.
As of 2024, Dr. Ratnam is an Associate Professor at Monash University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering. She is also a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of Engineers Australia. Her research interests focus on developing new paradigms to operate power systems, with a strong emphasis on creating a resilient, carbon-neutral power grid.