EPE Research Excellence recognised in prestigious MSCA Doctoral Networks 2025 Success
The Electrical Power Engineering (EPE) group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) is celebrating outstanding success in the 2025 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks call, securing two funded projects and emerging as the only ECS research group to achieve success this year.
MSCA Doctoral Networks are among the European Union’s most prestigious and competitive research and doctoral training programmes, supporting international collaborations between universities, research institutes, and industry partners. With an overall success rate of just 8.7%, the University’s six successful bids at a success rate of 15.8% represent a major achievement.
Two of these successful projects led by researchers from EPE highlight the group’s international leadership in intelligent energy systems, control engineering, and AI-driven technologies.
AI4Power, led by Dr Abhinav Kumar Singh and Dr Stratis Batzelis, will focus on developing trustworthy, explainable, and adaptive AI- and GenAI-based solutions for future power system operation and control. The project will also train a new generation of researchers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy systems, supporting the transition toward smarter and more resilient electricity networks.
KONEST, led by Professor Paolo Rapisarda, focuses on advancing kernel-based methods in control and estimation. The project will train researchers to create robust, data-driven, and physics-informed mathematical tools for complex dynamical systems with applications across multiple technological domains.
The success of both projects reflects EPE’s strong research environment and its ability to build impactful collaborations with leading European partners. Together with the establishment of the new research centre, CRAFT, this achievement further reinforces the group’s growing reputation for delivering innovative research with real-world impact, while creating exciting new opportunities for doctoral researchers across Europe.