Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, Washington,
United States

Matt Engels is a Power Engineer in PNNL's Environment and Energy Directorate. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrophysics/HPC. Mr. Engels' work at PNNL includes network security of SCADA energy delivery systems, secure control system communication, Hardware-in-the-Loop simulations, and microgrid analysis and control, including applied fieldwork. Prior to his work at PNNL, Mr. Engels worked as instrumentation and simulation engineer at the Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant, developed energy metering products at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, and served as a field engineer in the nuclear waste industry. He has also taught undergraduate electrical engineering courses as an adjunct faculty at Washington State University. Mr. Engels has co-authored numerous papers, reports, and presentations on various aspects of cyber security and microgrids.