Dr. Kodjo Agbossou

Prof. Dr. Kodjo Agbossou received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic measurements from the Université de Nancy I, France, in 1987, 1989, and 1992, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Electrical Engineering Department, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) from 1993 to 1994 and a Lecturer in the same Department from 1997 to 1998. He was the Director of graduate studies in electrical engineering with UQTR from 2002 to 2004. He was the Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UQTR, from 2007 to 2011.  From 2019 to 2024, he was vice president of RLS-Sciences. Since 2015, he has been the Sub-Committee Chair on home and building energy management of the Smart Grid Technical Committee, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). He was the Head of the Engineering School, UQTR, from 2011 to 2017.  He has been the Head of the Engineering School of UQTR since June 2023. He is currently the Hydro-Québec Research Chairholder on Transactive Management of Electrical Energy and the Chair of the Smart Energy Research and Innovation Laboratory, UQTR, where he is a member of the Hydrogen Research Institute. His current research interests include the areas of renewable energy, the use of hydrogen, home demand side management (HDSM), integration of energy production, storage and electrical energy generation systems, connection of electrical vehicles to the grid, control and measurements. Since 2022, he has been a Fellow IET.