Ghassan Hayek was born in Lattakia in 1958, received a BSc degree in Electrical Power engineering from the Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria, in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering - Automation and Control from TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, in 1989, respectively. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award ISA Transactions Journal in 2018 and many other Awards form prestigious journals and publishers. Also, He has been an editor of several special issues and books in the field of power systems. His main research areas are Electric drive, Mico-grid, Power system operation and control, Power system dynamic, control and stability, intelligent control, fuzzy control, automation and process control, preventive maintenance, condition monitoring, Fault diagnosis.