Research Director, Energy Systems Department, since 2025.
Research Manager, Power System Management Group, 2012–2025.
Former Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist with expertise in security of electricity supply, risk assessment of power systems and interdependent infrastructures, reliability analysis, probabilistic reliability criteria, vulnerability assessment, cyber-physical power systems, and active distribution network planning.
Education
Doktor ingeniør (PhD) in Electrical power engineering, Norwegian university of science and technology, Dept. of electrical power engineering, Trondheim, 1999
Graduated electrical engineer (MSc) in Electrical power engineering, Norwegian university of science and technology (former Norwegian institute of technology), 1993
Competence and research areas
Project leader in competence building projects like SAMREL – Integration of methods and tools for reliability of electricity supply analysis and RaPid – Resilient and Probabilistic reliability management of the transmission grid. Coordinator of EU FP7 GARPUR - Generally Accepted Reliability Principle with Uncertainty modelling and through probabilistic Risk assessment. WP leader FME CINELDI WP1, System development and asset management (2016 – 2023), and WP2, Smart grid operation (2023-2024).
Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/oddbjorn-gjerde-80b14429b/
ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/O-Gjerde
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7978-747X
