Infrastructure Asset Management with Power System Applications is about infrastructure asset management, which can be expressed as the combination of management, financial, economic, and engineering, applied to physical assets with the objective of providing the required level of service in the most cost-effective manner. It includes management of the whole lifecycle of a physical asset from design, construction, commission, operation, maintenance, modification, decommissioning, and disposal. It covers budget issues and focuses on asset management of an infrastructure for energy--i.e., the electric power system.

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Dr. Lina Bertling Tjernberg is a full Professor in Power Grid Technology at KTH - the Royal Institute of Technology. She was previously Professor in Sustainable Electric Power Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, 2009-2013, and she was the Head of the Electric Power Engineering Division from 2009-2012. During 2007-2009 she was with the Swedish Transmission system operator. During 1997-2009, she was associated with KTH, where she completed her PhD in Electric Power Systems in 2002. She has spent two research periods in Canada; during 2000 at University of Saskatchewan and during 2012-2013 with University of Toronto and Kinectrics. She is currently a visiting professor with Stanford University at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with Stanford Sustainable Systems Laboratory. Her research area is in modernization of the electric power systems - today typically captured in the concept of Smart Grid - with special interest in reliability analysis and maintenance management.

Dr. Bertling Tjernberg is serving as Secretary of IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) 2014-2015, and she is the Chair of the Swedish PE/PEL Chapter. She was previously the PES Treasurer 2012-2014, the chair of the IEEE PES Subcommittee on Risk, Reliability and Probability Applications (RRPA) 2011-2013, and she has been an RRPA officer since 2007. She organized the 6th International conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied for Power Systems (PMAPS) in Stockholm in 2006 and the first IEEE ISGT conference in Europe 2010 in Gothenburg. She has arranged numerous of panels, and giving keynote lectures on the topics on power system, maintenance and smart grid. She has organized and edited an IEEE Tutorial on Asset Management in Power Systems, and has developed courses at university on asset management for power system and power system reliability. She is member of advisory board of PMAPS and ISGT US, Asia and Europe, and she is an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Technologies. She is a Senior member of IEEE and a member of Cigré and has participated in several working groups and task forces. She is a Member of the Swedish Government Coordination Council for Smart Grid, and she is an expert for the EU commission within Energy, ICT and Security.