Hossein is a post-doctoral researcher at Professor Wolfgang Ketter’s Chair for Information Systems for Sustainable Society, Faculty of Management, Economics, and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne.

Hossein holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Power Systems from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2016 and 2022, respectively, where he completed both as the top-ranked graduate. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on developing efficient, user-centric, and network-aware transactive market frameworks for managing small-scale distributed energy resources, including electric vehicles and thermostatically controlled loads, while considering both the system operator's and customers' preferences. His primary research interest lies in local electricity markets, renewable energy integration, transportation electrification, and optimization and its application in power systems. 

He is currently an associate researcher in the EU Horizon project INTELLIGENT, working on the development of open-source, user-centric, and data-secure peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading tools that leverage blockchain and AI/ML technologies to optimize economic and environmental benefits for households while addressing electricity grid operational constraints. 

Selected Publications

2024

• Hossein Saber, Hossein Ranjbar, Ehsan Hajipour, and Mohammad Shahidehpour, "Two-Stage Coordination Scheme for Multiple EV Charging Stations Connected to an Exclusive DC Feeder Considering Grid-tie Converter Limitation," IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2024.3357217

2022

• Hossein Saber, Mehdi Ehsan, Moein Moeini-Aghtaie, Hossein Ranjbar, and Matti Lehtonen, "A User-friendly Transactive Coordination Model for Residential Prosumers Considering Voltage Unbalance in Distribution Networks," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2022.3141784

• Hossein Saber, Hossein Ranjbar, Sajjad Fattaheian-Dehkordi, Moein Moeini-Aghtaie, Mehdi Ehsan, and Mohammad Shahidehpour, "Transactive Energy Management of V2G-Capable Electric Vehicles in Residential Buildings: An MILP Approach," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2022). https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2022.3173943

• Hossein Saber, Hossein Ranjbar, Mehdi Ehsan, and Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam, "Transactive Charging Management of Electric Vehicles in Office Buildings: A Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained Approach," Sustainable Cities and Society (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104171

2020

• Hossein Saber, Mehdi Ehsan, Moein Moeini-Aghtaie, Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad, and Matti Lehtonen, "Network-Constrained transactive coordination for plug-in electric vehicles participation in real-time retail electricity markets," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2020). https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2020.3048390