BIOGRAPHY
Jelena Popovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and the Ph.D. degree from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. She has experience working in academia, an industrial network, a start-up and the government. She is currently working for the University of Twente as an Associate Professor and Netherlands Enterprise Agency as an Energy advisor.
She has published more than 100 publications in scientific journals, magazines and conferences. She has co-authored strategic research agendas, technology roadmaps and white papers in the field of energy access, power electronics, energy efficiency, and 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 PELS Technical Committee TC-12 Energy Access and Off-Grid Systems and the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives Competition.