Jeremy B. Vandermeer (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2011, and the M.S. degree in renewable energy from the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, in 2014. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in engineering with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA, with a focus on electric power. Since 2014, he has been a Research Engineer with the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP), University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he focuses on the challenges of integrating large amounts of renewable energy into microgrids and weak regional grids. He co-wrote the MiGRIDS simulation software that simulates hybrid-diesel microgrids. He also participates in renewable energy integration research and testing with the ACEP Power Systems Integration Laboratory, including the grid forming and load sharing capabilities of inverters and the impact of renewables on diesel generator operation and efficiency.