Ilka Jahn

Ilka Jahn is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electric Power and Energy Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She received the M.Sc. degree in electric power engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2015. At the end of her master, she spent one year at ABB Corporate Research in Sweden working on modulation strategies for Si/SiC multilevel converters. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2021, with a thesis on protection for multiterminal HVDC grids. The research in her PostDoc at KTH (2021) focused on partially open software for HVDC. In 2022-2024, she was an independent junior group leader at RWTH Aachen University in the areas of HVDC and MVDC control and protection design and verification. Since June 2024 she has been with KTH Stockholm and her research interests include HVDC control and protection, partially open / re-configurable software, and smart converter design for easy system integration.

Ongoing projects:

• Digital Futures Research Pair RECOPS (2025-2026) as shared PI
• KTH Rektor Sustainability Funding (2024-2026) as PI
• STandUP (2024-2028) as PI
• MSCA-DN Inter-oPEn (2024-2027) as coordinator at RWTH until 2024 and WP leader since 2024

Previous projects (selection):

• Junior Research Group in Design and Verification of Control & Protection Systems (2022-2024) as PI at RWTH
• EU project READY4DC (2022-2023) as WP leader at RWTH
• EU project PROMOTioN (2016-2020) as PhD student at KTH