September 7, 2022 the eight Thematic Seminar was held. Here, Sjors Hijgenaar and Vetrivel S. Rajkumar gave a talk about Cyber Resilient Electric Vehicle Charging in Smart Grids and How can cyber attacks on power grids cause cascading failures and a blackout in Europe?
If you want to (re)watch the seminar, a recording can be downloaded below. Besides this, a short overview of the talk can be found below.
From February 22, 2022 we will start Thematic Seminars every three weeks. The seminars will be organized by our 4TU RE DeSIRE Thematic Working Groups. Slots & times will be rotating, so everyone (also fellows from other time zones) have at least the possibility to join a few of the seminars. We aim at 12 sessions this year, two dedicated seminars per DeSIRE theme.
The talks will be open for everyone who is interested in Resilience Engineering and will be recorded. Recordings and a summary will be published afterwards via our 4TU RE website. You are warmly invited to join these seminars and share the link amongst interested colleagues!
BRILLIANT: Cyber Resilient Electric Vehicle Charging in Smart Grids by Sjors Hijgenaar
Sjors Hijgenaar is an industrial PhD candidate working for Stedin – a Dutch DSO – in collaboration with the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids (IEPG) group at TU Delft. His research is on the cyber threats in EV charging infrastructures and cyber resilience of distribution grids. The 1st part of his research focusses on the impact of cyber attacks on EV charging infrastructure and a method(ology) to quantify the operational resilience of the distribution system. The 2nd part of Sjors’ research focusses on improving the resilience of the distribution network to cyber attacks on EV charging infrastructure. He uses technologies such as machine learning and blockchain. The former to assess operational resilience to cyber attacks in (near) real-time. The latter to improve resilience through distributed response to cyber attacks.
How can cyber attacks on power grids cause cascading failures and a blackout in Europe? by Vetrivel S. Rajkumar
Vetrivel is a PhD researcher in the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids (IEPG) group in the department of Electrical Sustainable Energy at TU Delft. His doctoral research is broadly focused on cyber security for power grids. More specifically, he is investigating the potential impact of cyber attacks on power grids with respect to cascading failures and blackout. Based on this, he is currently developing and applying state-of-the-art data-driven mitigation techniques to minimize their impact.
All individual seminars can be found in de 4TU RE calendar.