Bio

Since 2022, Dr. Trindade (IEEE Senior Member) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Systems and Energy of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), usually ranked among the top 3 Latin America universities in important international rankings, and among the 15%-top world universities according to the QS World University Rankings 2023. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2011 to 2012, she was a Visiting Doctoral Scholar at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, working for Prof. Wilsun Xu. She started working at Unicamp in 2015. From 2021 to 2023, she served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and Power & Energy Letters. Her research interests are power distribution system automation and monitoring, fault location and non-technical losses.

Research Interests

Here you can find more information about the research interests and ongoing projects.

• Integration of Electric Vehicles in Distribution Systems.

• Integration of Photovoltaic Systems in Distribution Systems.

• Application of smart meters data in Distribution Management System.

• Technical and non-technical losses.

• Development of new methodologies for the advanced management of electrical energy distribution systems.

Panel Session IEEE PES GM 2020: Challenges of Applying Optimization on Large-Scale Distribution Utilities: A Case Study for DER Integration.