Dr Seyed Ashkan Nejati
Salford Business School
Current positions
Research Fellow
Biography
Dr Seyed Ashkan Nejati is a Research Fellow in the School of Business at the University of Salford, working within the Citizen-Led Flexibility and Grid Sustainability group. He completed his PhD in Electrical Power Systems at Newcastle University, where his research focused on operational cost optimisation of hybrid distribution networks, with an emphasis on modelling smart parking lots as energy-storage equivalents, multi-microgrid coordination, and citizen-led flexibility (CLF) under dynamic pricing environments.
His doctoral work developed a novel SOCP–MILP optimisation framework that integrates network constraints, flexibility markets, EV smart charging/V2X strategies, and locational marginal flexibility valuation. He has applied these methods to real UK case studies, including the IEEE-33-bus system, 83-bus Haxby Road LV network, the Port of Tyne, and active network management environments relevant to DNOs such as Northern Powergrid and SP Energy Networks.
Before joining Salford, Ashkan completed his MEng and BEng degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Leeds, collaborating closely with the Power Systems and Energy Management groups. His research interests include:
•Consumer-led flexibility & EV-centric flexibility markets
•Smart grid optimisation and active network management (ANM)
•Techno-economic modelling of low-carbon distribution systems
•EV infrastructure (V1G/V2G/V2X) and storage integration
•Mathematical optimisation (SOCP/MILP) and simulation (YALMIP, MATPOWER, Gurobi)
Ashkan has ongoing collaborations with industry and academia and is actively involved in developing next-generation flexibility frameworks to support the UK's net-zero transition.
Qualifications
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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
2021 - 2025 -
Electronic and Renewable Energy Sources
2020 - 2021 -
Electronic and Renewable Energy Sources
2016 - 2020