Hanane Dagdougui received a Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Engineering of Genoa, Italy and the Mines Paris-Tech, Paris, France, as part of an international joint program in December 2011. She was a research assistant at the Faculty of Engineering in Genoa, and currently, she is Postdoctoral research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the ÉTS Montreal, Canada. Her main research interests are related to Smart Grids, in particular modelling and planning microgrids and control and optimization of microgrid and network of microgrids.