Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Mahmood-Reza Haghifam (M'95-SM'06) was born in Iran in 1967. He received the BS, MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1989, 1992 and 1995. He joined Tarbiat Modares University as assistant Prof. in 1965. He is now a Full Professor in Power Systems at the Tarbiat Modarres University (TMU), Tehran, Iran He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (and IEEE Iran Section Industrial relationship officer). Also he is a research Fellow of Alexander Von Humboldt in Germany. He has been awarded by DAAD and AvH in 2001, 2006 and 2009 for research stays in German universities. He was as visiting Prof. in university of Calgary, Canada in 2003. His main research interests are Power System Restructuring, Power System Reliability, and Electric Distribution System.