ZhangLiuchun

Liuchun Zhang, Phd, a professor who works at the Department of High Voltage, China Electric Power Research Institute. She is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Registered Equipment Supervisor. She has worked in the fields of lightning and overvoltage protection of power system, insulation coordination and gas discharge for over 15 years. She has rich research experiences of lightning protection design and insulation coordination for UHVDC and UHVAC transmission and transformation engineering.
She led the research on lightning protection design and insulation coordination for the first ±1100kV UHVDC transmission project in the world. She has led and accomplished more than 50 projects on the lightning protection design and insulation coordination for the engineering with the voltage level of ±1100kV, ±800kV, 1000kV, 750kV and 330kV. She has authored or co-authored more than 40 publications, and jointly won over 20 Scientific and Technological Awards in the related area.