Christopher Lashway is a Technical Staff member in the Energy Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and has worked with over 30 DoD installations to provide technical expertise for Black Start Exercises, Energy Resilience Readiness Exercises, and Energy Resilience Tabletop Exercises, later supporting a training program for external contractors to plan and execute these exercises independently. He continues to work closely with external contractors at CONUS and OCONUS installations, providing subject matter expertise and deploying advanced electrical power metering to evaluate power quality for commercial and backup power systems. This work has expanded as of late to performing detailed analysis and design of distribution systems and microgrids. Dr. Lashway began his studies at the University of Central Florida in 2003, with an interest in electrical power following previous work as an electrician. He graduated with his Bachelors and went to pursue a Masters at Pennsylvania State University in 2008. In 2010, he joined the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, supporting power needs for a wide range of projects, to include wearable grids and auxiliary backup power generation for tactical vehicles in the Navy and Marine Corps. In 2013, he went on to pursue a PhD from Florida International University, with a focus on battery and energy storage modeling and control for microgrids, publishing numerous journal and conference articles before joining MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 2018.
