Arash Mohammadi Vaniar holds a BS and MS degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University and Middle East Technical University, graduating in 2022 and 2025, respectively. He is now a PhD candidate at the Energy and Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Stavanger, Norway, working on the EU CoDeF project. His research interests include power systems operation and control, energy systems modeling, and optimization.