Pierrou, Georgia
Assistant Professor

Biography

Georgia Pierrou is an Assistant Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada.  Before joining the University of Toronto, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Power Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she was advised by Prof. Gabriela Hug. Georgia received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University, Canada under the supervision of Prof. Xiaozhe Wang in 2021, and the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2017. Her research interests include stability analysis, optimization, and control of electric power systems.

Membership/Awards

• Best Poster Award – Center for Sustainable Future Mobility, ETH Zurich (2023)
• D. W. Ambridge Prize (2022)
• Rising Stars in EECS (2022)
• Green Talents Award (2021)
• Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation Fellowship (2017-2019)
• McGill Graduate Excellence Fellowship (2019-2021)
• Constantina N. Frangouli Family Scholarship (2019)
• Member, IEEE Power and Energy Society