Dr. Marija Zima, Research Team Manager, Power and Energy Systems
ABB Corporate Research
Dr. Marija Zima is Research Team Manager of Power and Energy Systems group at ABB Corporate research Center in Switzerland.
In her current role, she leads a team of scientists, contributes to technology development, provides strategic technical consulting to ABB technology management, and supports business devel-opment. Dr. Marija Zima began her career at ABB as Research Sci-entist and Project Manager in 2010. Prior to her roles at ABB and ETHZ, she worked for Latvian utility company Latvenergo, where she was with the strategy and long-term transmission and dis-tribution planning department as an electrical engineer.
Her core expertise is in electrical systems operation, analysis and design. Her major interests are in techno-economical as-sessment of the innovative technologies, reliable integration of intermittent renewable sources and electric transportation to electrical power grid, and sustainable and efficient electricity supply to smart cities and homes.
She is a member of CIGRE and Swiss representative of the Cigre Study committee “System Operations and Control”, she serves on the Board of Swiss Association for Energy and Network Re-search, and publishes in IEEE, Elsevier journals and lectures at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.
Dr. Marija Zima obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Riga Technical University, Latvia in 2002 and 2007, and her second Ph.D. degree from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) in Zürich, in 2010, all in electrical engineering specializing on var-ious aspects of power systems control, optimization and protec-tion.