Rate My Professor Liz Ratnam

Liz Ratnam leads a research group in Power Systems and Optimization, with an overarching focus on accelerating the transition to net-zero power grids. Her work develops novel control, estimation, and optimization frameworks to enable robust grid operations, transactive energy markets, and improved security and resilience of cyber-physical power systems. Key research areas encompass the integration of renewable energy sources, solar photovoltaics, battery storage, electric vehicles, smart grid design, and coordinated control in unbalanced distribution grids. Her contributions align with UN Sustainable Development Goals 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), 10 (Reduced Inequalities), and 13 (Climate Action). With 48 research outputs including 19 journal articles and 27 conference papers, notable publications include 'Distributed Coordination of Electric Vehicles in Unbalanced Distribution Grids: Enhancing Resilience to Peer-to-Peer Communication Failures' (2025, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications), 'Electric Grid Topology and Admittance Estimation: Quantifying Phasor-based Measurement Requirements' (2025, American Control Conference), and 'A Distributed Coordination Approach for the Charge and Discharge of Electric Vehicles in an Unbalanced Distribution Grid' (2024, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics). Her work has garnered approximately 1,991 citations on Google Scholar. She is actively involved in projects such as Building Australia's Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure and accepts PhD students.