Biography:
Néstor Rodríguez is an Industrial Engineer from ICAI (Comillas Pontifical University), holds a PhD in Engineering Systems Modelling from the same university, and also has a Master's Degree in Smart Grids from the University of Strathclyde (Scotland) and Comillas Pontifical University. He is currently a professor in the Department of Industrial Management at ICAI and a researcher in the REDES area at the Institute for Research in Technology. As a researcher, he has been a guest researcher at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and has participated in numerous European and consultancy projects related to the digitisation of electricity networks and Smart Grids. His research interests focus on the digitisation of power systems, TSO-DSO coordination, cybersecurity for smart grids, and the replicability and scalability of information and communication technologies for smart grid solutions.
Areas of interest:
Smart and Sustainable Grids, Cybersecurity for Power Systems, Smart Cities, IoT in power grids, Information and Communication Technologies for Smart Grids
Experience:
Smart Grids Engineer Intern at i-DE (Iberdrola Group). Madrid, May-August 2020.
Student collaborator. Observatory for the Electric Vehicle and Sustainable Mobility. Institute for Research in Technology, Pontifical University of Comillas, May-July 2018
Skills:
Omnet++, PowerFactory, Matlab, Docker, MSOffice, Databases (SQL and No-SQL), C/C++, Python, IoT Protocols (MQTT, AMQP)
Current research interests:
Analysis of the impact of cyberattacks in power systems
Smart Grids.
N. Rodríguez Pérez, J. Matanza, L. Sigrist, J.L. Rueda Torres, G. López, "MaDIoT 3.0: Assessment of Attacks to Distributed Energy Resources and Demand in a Power System", IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, Vol. 12, pp. 552 - 563, 2025. [Online: August 2025] doi: 10.1109/OAJPE.2025.3595631
JCR-JIF: 3,200 Q2 (2024) - SJR: 0,969 Q1 (2025); 0,969 Q1 (2025) N. Rodríguez Pérez, J. Matanza, G. López, R. Cossent, J.P. Chaves, C. Mateo, T. Gómez, M.A. Sánchez Fornié, "Measuring the digitalisation of electricity distribution systems in Europe: towards the smart grid", International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 159, pp. 110009, August 2024. [Online: April 2024] doi: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2024.110009
JCR-JIF: 5,000 Q1 (2024); 5,300 Q1 (2025) - SJR: 1,714 Q1 (2024); 1,482 Q1 (2025) N. Rodríguez Pérez, J. Matanza, G. López, "ICT scalability and replicability analysis for smart grids: methodology and application", Energies, Vol. 17, nº. 3, pp. 574, February 2024. [Online: January 2024] doi: 10.3390/en17030574
JCR-JIF: 3,200 Q3 (2024); 3,900 Q3 (2025) - SJR: 0,713 Q1 (2024); 0,748 Q1 (2025) N. Rodríguez Pérez, J. Matanza, L. Sigrist, J.L. Rueda Torres, G. López, "Confronting the threat: analysis of the impact of MaDIoT attacks in two power system models", Energies, Vol. 16, nº. 23, pp. 7732, December 2023. [Online: November 2023] doi: 10.3390/en16237732
JCR-JIF: 3,000 Q3 (2023); 3,900 Q3 (2025) - SJR: 0,651 Q1 (2023); 0,748 Q1 (2025)
JCR-JIF: 8,600 Q1 (2023); 10,100 Q1 (2025) - SJR: 4,863 Q1 (2023); 4,363 Q1 (2025) 
