Professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade, Dr. Željko Đurišić, is participating in the RES SERBIA 2024 conference, held on the 23rd and 24th of September in Vrdnik.
Željko R. Đurišić was born in 1972 in the village of Babino, Berane, Montenegro. He finished elementary school in his native village and high school in Berane. He completed his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, in the field of Electric Power Systems (EES). At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, he passed all associate and teaching titles and is currently employed as a full professor at the Department of Electrical Power Systems.
Together with Prof. Dušan Mikičić, in 2005 he founded the course Renewable Energy Sources, and in 2013 he initiated the establishment of the Department of Renewable Energy Sources at the master’s degree program at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, where he also founded the Laboratory for Power Plants. Since 2009, he has been working as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of East Sarajevo, where he founded courses in the field of electricity quality and integration of RES into power systems.
He is the winner of the annual award of the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce for the best doctoral dissertation at the University of Belgrade for 2013. He received the award for the best paper at the leading international conference on wind energy – European Wind Energy Conference – EWEC 2009 , Marseille, France, 2009. He received awards for the most notable papers at the national conferences CIGRE Serbia and CIGRE Montenegro.
He is a member of the Board of Editors of the international scientific journal Wind. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the domestic professional journal Enerija. He is a member of the Study Committee C4 – Technical Performance of Power Systems within CIGRE Serbia. He is a member of the Study Committee C2 – Power Quality and Electromagnetic Compatibility within CIRED Serbia. He is the President of the C4 Study Committee within CIRED Montenegro. He is a member of the program committee of the intermediate conferences INDEL and INFOTEH. He is a member of the program committee of the domestic conference Energy.
He has participated in the implementation of a number of projects and managed the preparation of several studies in the field of wind energy and solar energy. He has been a consultant to the World Bank on wind farm projects in Europe and Asia. He has been hired part-time by several private companies as a consultant for the exploration of wind energy potentials and the design of wind farms and photovoltaic power plants. He is the author of the study Analysis of the Wind Energy Potential of the Target Region of Leskovo, on the basis of which the first wind farm in Serbia was built. He is the author of over 30 conceptual solutions for wind farms that are being developed in the region and the world, of which about 300 MW have already been built and connected to the power plant.