Zian Qin is an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He received the B.Sc. degree from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2009; M.Sc. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2012; and Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2015; all in electrical engineering. In 2014, he was a Visiting Scientist at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. His research interests include power quality and stability of power electronics-based grids, solid-state transformers, and battery energy storage. He has more than 100 journals/conference papers, 4 book chapters, and 2 international patents, and he has worked on several European, Dutch national and industrial projects in these areas.

He is an associate editor of IEEE TPEL, TIE and JESTPE. He is the Founding Chair of IEEE Transportation Electrification Council Benelux Chapter, and the Dutch National Member in the Cigre WG 4.101 Grid-Forming Energy Storage Application. He served as the technical program chair of IEEE-PEDG 2024, IEEE-PEDG 2023, IEEE-ISIE 2020, IEEE-COMPEL 2020, etc. He is a winner of IEEE Open Journal in Power Electronics Prize Paper Award for the year 2020~2023 and IEEE International Challenge in Design Methods for Power Electronics Excellent Innovation Award 2023.