Hakan Ergun, born in 16.02.1983 in Leoben Austria, has obtained his degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in October 2009. In February 2010 he has joined the Electa Research Group at KU Leuven, Belgium where he obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering in January 2015. He has been a post – doctoral researcher until 2018 and is currently a research expert at KU Leuven / EnergyVille.

His main research interest is to optimally develop and operate future energy networks for the renewable energy transition. He is the main developer of a number of open-source network modelling tools for optimal planning and operation of AC and DC grids, and stability and security constrained network operation. He has worked in several national and international research projects on several aspects of power system modelling and optimization. He is a senior member of IEEE and is an active member of CIGRE.