Ehsan Abbasi received his B.S. degree from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2004 and M.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2007 all in Electrical Engineering. He was earned the Dr.-Ing. degree (magna cum laude) from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in January 2014. Since then, he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the same university for 14 months. He has been a research member of the CIGRÉ Task Force C6.04.02 that proposes benchmark systems for network integration of renewable and distributed energy resources, a research member of European Union FP7 projects MERGE and SuSTAINABLE as well as the project NET-ELAN funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.