Julia Matevosyan
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Julia Matevosyan (also published as Julija Sveca, born 1978) is an electrical engineer specializing in the integration of renewable energy sources into the electrical grid, typically involving asynchronous inverter-based connections. Born in the Soviet Union, and educated in Latvia and Sweden, she works in the US as associate director and chief engineer for the Energy Systems Integration Group.[1]
Matevosyan was born in Riga, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1978.[2] Her high school best friend came from a family of power engineers, and they both determined to go into the same field together.[3] She studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate at the Riga Technical University in Latvia,[1] with an exchange term at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.[3] Returning to KTH for graduate study, she received a master's degree and completed her Ph.D.[1] Her 2006 doctoral dissertation, Wind Power Integration in Power Systems with Transmission Bottlenecks, was supervised by Lennart Söder.[4]
After her doctorate, she continued at KTH for two years of postdoctoral research, and then worked for three years as a consultant in London before moving to Austin, Texas, where she worked for ten years at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.[3] After joining the Energy Systems Integration Group in Texas, she became chief engineer circa 2021 and associate director in 2024.[1]