Julia Matevosyan (also published as Julija Sveca, born 1978) is an electrical engineer specializing in the integration of renewable energy sources into the electrical grid, typically involving asynchronous inverter-based connections. Born in the Soviet Union, and educated in Latvia and Sweden, she works in the US as associate director and chief engineer for the Energy Systems Integration Group. [1]
Matevosyan was born in Riga, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1978. [2] Her high school best friend came from a family of power engineers, and they both determined to go into the same field together. [3] She studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate at the Riga Technical University in Latvia, [1] with an exchange term at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. [3] Returning to KTH for graduate study, she received a master's degree and completed her Ph.D. [1] Her 2006 doctoral dissertation, Wind Power Integration in Power Systems with Transmission Bottlenecks, was supervised by Lennart Söder. [4]
After her doctorate, she continued at KTH for two years of postdoctoral research, and then worked for three years as a consultant in London before moving to Austin, Texas, where she worked for ten years at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. [3] After joining the Energy Systems Integration Group in Texas, she became chief engineer circa 2021 and associate director in 2024. [1]
Matevosyan was named to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions in the planning and design of power systems with inverter-based resources". [5]