Amir Fayaz Heidari is a Ph.D. student in the Power and Energy System group at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Amir’s project title is “Impact of Distributed Energy Resources on Electricity Markets” under the supervision of Prof. Tansu Alpcan. His research interests concentrate on the optimization and analysis of planning and operation problems for power systems under renewable generation. He received his M.Sc. degree in Power System Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in September 2017