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Grain Philip Adam

NEOM Energy and Water (ENOWA)

Dr. Grain Philip Adam is a Principal Planning Expert with NEOM Energy and Water (ENOWA) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), a technical lead of 3000 MW and ±525 kV Bipole Voltage Source Converter HVDC Interconnector under construction between Yanbu and NEOM Industrial City (NIC), and a co-lead of NEOM Grid Design. Previously, Dr. Adam was with the Technology and Innovation Center (TIC) of the Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE) of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. Dr. Adam has authored and co-authored over 100 technical reports as part of R&D with several tier 1 OEMs (ALTSOM Grid, UK; Mitsubishi Electric, Japan; and Rolls-Royce, UK), consultancies for major UK utilities (National Grid, Scottish Power and SSE), and Prestige European and UK research projects, and 3 books in power electronics applications in power systems. Dr Adam is known for his sustained contribution of original ideas in fundamental and applications of power electronics, and he has published over 150 journal and conference articles, with 19 articles ranked in the top 1% of the highly cited papers with more than 100 citations per paper. Dr Adam is senior member of IEEE, IEEE Power Electronics Society and IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), and member of editorial board and associate editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE). Dr. Adam received several awards, for example, best paper awards for ICRERA conference in 2018 and 2022, PES reviewer of the year in 2018, star reviewer and associate editor of JESTPE in 2020, 2021 and 2022.