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Mohd Zamri Che Wanik

Senior Scientist in Power System, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute

Dr.-Ing. Mohd Zamri Che Wanik is a Power & Renewable Systems Engineering and Research Specialist. He received his BSc. from the University of Evansville, U.S.A., MEngSc. from the Curtin University of Technology, Australia and Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften (equivalent to PhD) from Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany in 1997, 2002 and 2011 respectively all in Electrical Engineering specialising in Electrical Power System. He was an academic staff at Malaysian National University where he teaches power system subjects and supervised theses.

He is acknowledged as an expert and was constantly referred by Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), the largest electric utility company in Malaysia. His works led to the amendment of Malaysia Grid Codes to accommodate large scale solar farm, improvement of Malaysian PV interconnection guidelines to medium voltage grid, pilot demonstration project on distributed generation management in TNB Distribution network, pilot demonstration of Microgrid operation at TNB, Malaysian Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure guidelines, the net metering policy with RE to name a few. Since 2016, he is with Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute as Scientist/Project Lead – Advanced Power Systems-Smart Grids. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IEEE PES, and a member of CIGRE.