Professor Tapan Saha is the Leader of UQ Solar and he has been a full professor since 2005 at the University of Queensland, where he is also the leader of Industry 4.0 UQ Energy TestLab. He has 28 years of world class research expertise in power systems, renewable energy (solar PV, wind and geothermal) integration to the electricity grid and condition monitoring & remaining life prediction of electrical plants. He has successfully supervised 25+ post-doctoral research fellows, 50 PhD and 11 MPhil students as a principal adviser in power engineering. He has received more than 50 million dollar research grants from the Australian Research Council (13 Linkage, 2 Discovery and 2 Large Infrastructure Equipment Fund), Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Australian federal (Education Infrastructure Fund for Solar Flagship project) and Queensland state governments (Queensland Geothermal Centre of Excellence, Advance Queensland etc.) and electricity supply industry. He has published more than 630 papers in IEEE, Elsevier and other international journals and peer reviewed conferences. He works very closely with the Australian electricity supply industry. He has strong research links with universities in USA, China, and India. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and research contributions within and outside the university.
