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IEEE Empower a Billion Lives (EBL) II Vice-Chair Associate Professor
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jelena Popovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2005. From 2005 to 2011, she was with the European Center for Power Electronics as a Technology Transfer Coordinator. From 2008 to 2017 she was with the Delft University of Technology as an Assistant Professor. In 2018 she co-founded a start-up in energy access, Klimop Energy. From October 2019, she joined University of Twente as an Associate Professor to develop an energy access programme. She has published over 100 publications in scientific journals, magazines and conferences. She has co-authored strategic research agendas, technology roadmaps and white papers in the fields of energy access, power electronics, energy efficiency, solid state lighting. Her recent interests are bottom-up solutions for energy access, appropriate technology and socio-technical integration. She is a Vice-Chair of the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives Competition and IEEE PELS Technical Committee Energy Access and Off-Grid Systems.