David J. Hill received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1976. Since 2022, he holds the position of Professor of Electrical Power and Energy Systems at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also Professor Emeritus at The University of Sydney and The University of Hong Kong having held the Chair of Electrical Engineering from 1994 and 2013 respectively. In Sydney, 2010-2018, he was Foundation Director of the Centre for Future Energy Networks. During 2005-2010, he was an ARC Federation Fellow at the Australian National University. He has also held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Munich, City University of Hong Kong and New South Wales Sydney. His research activities have been in energy and power systems, control systems, complex networks and systems, learning systems and stability analysis. His work is now mainly focussed on issues for future energy and power networks with the aim to bring science to accelerate the clean energy transition.

Professor Hill has a wide range of research achievements across several areas of power systems modelling, analysis and control as well as more fundamental work in systems stability, control and complex systems and networks. He has been a regular consultant to power utilities in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden. Currently he directs a Centre of Intelligent Electricity Networks funded by Ausgrid (previously Energy Australia), which carries out research into all aspects of smart grids including advising for the development of the Federal Government's Smart Grid Smart City. In his own research, he is devoted to finding the best network structures and distributed control to meet the challenges of future sustainable power grids.