Sonja Monica Berlijn

Sonja Monica BERLIJN received her M.Sc. degree from the TUE, Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1994, her PhD degree from TUG, Graz, Austria, in 2000 and her MBA in 2012 from Melbourne University.

She has been working at the High Voltage Laboratory of KEMA; the Netherlands, and at STRI in Sweden. From 2008 to 2014 she has been working at the overhead line department at Statnett and she was responsible for a number of R&D activities and for the electromechanical and insulation co-ordination design of the world's largest voltage upgrading project.
In 2014 she became SVP for Statnett's R&D and part-time professor in Power Systems at the NMBU.

In January 2021 she became professor in sustainable integrated energy systems at KTH and in 2023 she joined DNV as senior principal consultant.

She has been and still is member of board member of several organisations and centra.

In 1998 she got a Working Group Recognition Award from PES IEEE and in 1999 she got the prize paper award from ISH 99/Hydro-Quebec. She became senior IEEE member in 2020 and got elected fellow in the Swedish Royal Academy for Engineering Sciences in 2021. (IVA)