Melanie D. Johnson
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USA
Presentation: Energy Resilience Microgrids in Operational Energy.
Melanie D. Johnson is an electrical engineering researcher in the Energy Branch of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL). She joined the Energy Branch in 2008 and focuses on improving energy resilience at Department of Defense (DoD) installations through microgrids and advanced electrical distribution technologies.
Melanie served as Assistant Technical Manager for the JCTD SPIDERS programme and as a key technical lead for the Tactical Microgrids Standards Consortium. She currently leads CERL’s Resilient Energy and Advanced Distribution Innovation Team.
She holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, with both degrees specialising in power and energy systems.