Prof. Delfín Ortega-Sánchez
University of Burgos, Spain
Prof. Dr. Delfín Ortega-Sánchez is Full Professor of Didactics of Social Sciences at the University of Burgos. He holds three doctoral degrees, PhD in Didactics of Social Sciences (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), PhD in Education (University of Burgos), and PhD in the History of the Americas (University of Extremadura), each awarded with an Extraordinary Doctoral Award. His research focuses on education for democratic citizenship, the curricular inclusion and didactic treatment of controversial issues and social problems, literary education, equality, transdisciplinarity, and the pedagogical use of educational technology.
Currently, he serves as Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations, Culture, and Social Projection at the University of Burgos, and as Director of the Chair in Human Rights and Democratic Culture - Auschwitz Birkenau National Institute, the only one worldwide in direct collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. In recognition of his impact, he was distinguished among the world’s top ten Social Sciences researchers in the USERN 2022 World Prize.
Dr. Dhivya Sampath Kumar
Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Dr. Dhivya received her M.Eng. degree in Power Systems Engineering from the College of Engineering-Guindy, Anna University, India, in 2011 and her PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in June 2017. She also earned a graduate certificate in Management of Technology from NUS. She worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS)- National University of Singapore until Jan 2022. Since February 2022, she has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). She is also serving as Programme Leader for MSc Electrical & Electronics Programme in SIT. Her research interests include Modelling, Control, Optimization & Management of Microgrid/Smart Grids, Analysis of grid security, reliability and planning issues pertaining to embedded integrated distributed generators, Application of machine learning to power systems, and Optimal Integration and Management of DERs. She has worked on multiple projects with utilities and industries to analyze the impact of integrating renewable distributed generators on the reliability and protection of power networks.
She is also actively involved in IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) activities and is currently serving as the executive committee member of the IEEE PES Singapore Chapter, Treasurer of IEEE Young Professionals Society Singapore, Technical committee member of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification (TCTE). She is also an executive committee member in Women in Science and Engineering Research (WiSER) and Technical committee member of Climate Change in the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES). She is a regular reviewer of IEEE and Elsevier journals and conferences and, has served in the organizing committee of flagship IEEE conferences.