Hugo Morais is a senior researcher at the Portuguese R&D Institute INESC-ID and an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. With a background in Electrical Engineering (specializing in Power Systems) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2012), he has contributed to over 40 academic and industrial research projects, ranging from national, to French and European funded initiatives. At INESC ID he is the coordinator of three ongoing Horizon Europe projects and is actively involved in the other four.

His research primarily focuses on advancing smart grid technologies and tools. As part of his work, he has contributed to the development of operational planning tools for the French Distribution System Operator (DSO) and on the development of hardware-agnostic solutions, based on IEC standards, to be used to control distributed energy resources. Additionally, he has been actively involved in the development of strategies for electric mobility integration in power systems. 
 
Hugo Morais (IEEE Senior Member, 2018) has received 26 awards and authored over 250 scientific papers, including more than 80 published in international peer-reviewed journals, with more than 7,500 citations. He also serves as an editor for several leading scientific journals, including Energies, Electricity Journal, and Frontiers in Energy Research.