Professor Lucas Melo, Dr.
About me
Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Federal University of Ceara (UFC), Brazil. Colaborator of UFC Smart Grid Group - GREI.
Degree in electrical engineering from UFC campus Sobral-CE and master’s and doctorate from UFC campus Fortaleza-CE, with a sandwich internship at UFSC in Florianópolis-SC.
Research topics interests:
- Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Energetic Resourses (DER) Integration and Coordination in Electric Power Systems;
- Application of Optimization Techniques, Multiagent Systems and Co-simulation in Protection, Automation and Control of Electric Power Systems;
- Transactive Energy Systems Development.
News
- 11/2024: Many works presented in Local University Meetings 2024. Congratulations students!
- 10/2024: First Master degree supervision concluded with sucess. Congratulations João Paulo!
- 10/2024: 2024.2 semester start. Excited to teach Supervision and Control of Electrical Power Systems!
- 10/2024: Three works presented in CBA 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More info about our works presented in the event here.
- 08/3034: A new phase of Co-simulation and Demand Response undergraduate projects. Start of the cycle 2024/2025.
- 07/2023: Our paper intitled Co-simulation platform for the assessment of transactive energy systems has been accepted in Electric Power Systems Research Journal. Congratulations to all researchers involved!
Teaching
Currently offering (2025.1):
Offered last semester (2024.2):
- Supervision and Control of Power Ssystems
- Eletrotecnic for Engineering (Laboratory);
- DC Circuits (Laboratory);
Previously offered in other semesters:
Supervision
Students currently under supervision:
- Levi Nogueira (PhD - Co-supervision)
- Luiz Freire (MSc);
- Mozart Daniel (MSc);
- Alysson Ponciano (MSc - Co-supervision);
- João Pedro (Under-graduation project);
- Victor Gonzaga (Under-graduation project);
- Raphael Silva (Under-graduation project);
- Edinardo Vascondelos (Under-graduation project);
- Larissa Vitória (Under-graduation project);
- Diego Rodrigues (Under-graduation project);
- Jessiano (Under-graduation project);
For a more detailed description about the research themes, please visit projects and publications.
Doctoral and Master Degree Documents
Doctoral Degree Thesis Multidomain computer simulation model for the analysis of smart electrical grids with application in energy economic transactions.
Master Degree Dissertation: Development of a platform for implementing multi-agents systems for application to automatic restoration of electric power distribution systems.
Contact
Email: lucassmelo at dee dot ufc dot br
Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical Engineering
Federal University of Ceará
Campus do Pici - Centro de Tecnologia
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil