Tomás Gómez

Tomás Gómez is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Engineering School of Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain. He obtained the Degree of Doctor Ingeniero Industrial from Universidad Politécnica, Madrid, in 1989, and the Degree of Ingeniero Industrial in Electrical Engineering from Comillas in 1982. He joined Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) at Comilas University in 1984. From 1994 to 2000, he was the Director of IIT, and from 2000 to 2002, the Vice-Rector of Research, Development, and Innovation of Comillas. Dr. Gómez has a large experience in industry joint research projects in the field of Electric Energy Systems in collaboration with Spanish, Latin American, and European utilities. He has been project manager and/or principal investigator in more than 80 research projects. His areas of interest are operation and planning of transmission and distribution systems, power quality assessment and regulation, and economic and regulatory issues in the electrical power sector. He has published more than 100 articles in different specialized magazines such as IEEE PES Transactions and Conference proceedings, and has co-authored the book "Electricity Economics: Regulation and Deregulation" in Wiley-IEEE Press. He is a senior member of IEEE. He is the chairman of the Technical Committee of the next Power System Computation Conference to be held in Stockholm in 2011 and belongs or has belonged to the Technical Committees of other Conferences: Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems and IEEE Power Tech. In the academic year 2009-10 he is spending a sabbatical stay as a visiting researcher at the Energy Analysis Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.