Saman Gorji – The Conversation

Associate Professor, Renewable Energy and Electrical Engineering, Deakin University

Saman Gorji is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Smart Power and Energy Research at Deakin University. His work focuses on local energy systems, including microgrids, energy sharing in buildings, and the role of policy in making clean energy more affordable and reliable for communities.

Experience

2025–present

Associate professor, Deakin University
2022–2025

Senior Lecturer, Deakin University
2020–2022

Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology
2018–2020

Postdoctoral research associate, Swinburne University of Technology

Education

2025

Harvard Business School Online, Leadership and Management Track
2018

Swinburne University of Technology, PhD

Publications

2026

Hydrogen as a seasonal storage technology to enable Net-Zero Victoria, Australia, Energy Conversion and Management: X
2025

An Overview of Inertia Emulation Strategies for DC Microgrids: Stability Analysis and AC Microgrid Analogies, IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society
2024

Technical Feasibility Analysis and Design of Adding Electrolyser to an Existing Solar Farm: Case Study in Deakin Solar Farm, IEEE AUPEC
2023

Challenges and opportunities in green hydrogen supply chain through metaheuristic optimization , Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2023, Pages 1143–1157, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwad043
2022

Reconfigurable Quadratic Converters for Electrolyzers Utilized in DC Microgrids, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 109677-109687, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3214581

Grants and Contracts

2026

REACH Schedule 2 - ArcActive Australia - Stream 2: Battery installation and System Integration and Smart Deployment Strategy

Role:

Lead CI

Funding Source:

Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub
2024

International Hydrogen Fellowship

Role:

Lead CI

Funding Source:

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2022

Fully DC microgrid for Green Hydrogen Production

Role:

Lead CI

Funding Source:

Cooperative Research Centres, Australian Government Department of Industry
2018

Design, Analysis and Implementation of Bidirectional Power Converters

Role:

Lead CI

Funding Source:

Cooperative Research Centres, Australian Government Department of Industry

Professional Memberships

Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE)
Fellow, Engineers Australia (FIEAust)

Research Areas

Electrical And Electronic Engineering (0906)

Honours

SMIEEE, FHEA, FIEAust