Brief introduction
- Head of the chair since September 16th, 2013
- He has been Associate Professor at Bari Polytechnic (Italy) and Professor in reliable power electronics at Aalborg University (Denmark)
- Vice-President for Publications, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2010-2011
- Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2007-2009
- IEEE-IES AdCom Senior member since 2012
- IEEE-PELS AdCom member at large since 2017
- Author of 310 technical papers (90 of them in international peer-reviewed journals), 3 chapters of a book and a book (Grid Converters for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems, ISBN-10: 0-470-05751-3 – IEEE-Wiley, also translated in Chinese) and a patent. These works have received: 20200 citations (h-index 55) in Google Scholar. Some of the papers have been among the most downloaded from overall IEEE Explore library and from the journals where they have been published.
Awards
- 2017 IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award
- Thomson Reuters "Highly Cited": “The world’s most influential scientific minds”
- The Dr. Bimal Bose Energy Systems Award
- IEEE Fellow, 2013 class, with citation "for contributions to grid connection of renewable energy systems and industrial drives"
- Third Prize paper award by the Industrial Power Converter Committee at ECCE 2012, 2012
- Best paper, Industrial Electronics Magazine 2011
- Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award 2011, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
- Early Career Award 2009, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
- Google Scholar citations ''2006 top cited'' paper on 'Stability of photovoltaic and wind turbine grid connected inverters for a large set of grid impedance values' - selected as one of the 2006 classics in power engineering
Fund raising at CAU
- Responsible of ERC Consolidator Grant for an overall budget of 2.000.000 Euro for the project “The Highly Efficient And Reliable smart Transformer (HEART), a new Heart for the Electric Distribution System”, 2014-2018. Highly reputed in Europe (acceptance rate 8%)
- Local responsible of Kopernicus Project (one of the 4 german strategic projects for the implementation of the “Energie Wende”) Neue EnergieNetzStruktURen für die Energiewende (ENSURE), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, 01.09.2016 – 31.08.2019, for 600.000 Euro
- Responsible of “Messgenerator im Mittelspannugnsnetz” of 2.300.000 Euro, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie.
- Responsible of Medium Voltage Laboratory Kiel, funded (EFRE funding, CAU, EKSH) for 1.000.000 Euro.
- Responsible for the University of Kiel, of “Power Electronics Region” EU Interreg project, 1.000.000 Euro.
- Local responsible of the Project RELINK, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, 700.000 Euro.
- Responsible of the “Großgeräte der Länder” project “Thermal Characterization of Power Electronic Converters (TCPEC)”, 2015, 460.000 Euro.
- Responsible of the DFG “Forschunggroßgeräte” project “Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS)”, 2015, of 300.000 Euro.
- Responsible of three Von-Humboldt Fellowships 210.000 Euro
- Responsible of two industrial PhD´s 300.000 Euro
- Responsible of two EKSH Fellowships 110.000 Euro
- Responsible of the project: “LIFE-WIND” (LIFEtime-enhanced Components for WIND Turbines), funded by the Gesellschaft für Energie und Klimaschutz Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (EKSH), 2015-2017, of 150.000 Euro.
- Investigation of reliability issues in power electronics, European Center for Power Electronics, 01.09.2015 – 31.08.2016 for 12.500 Euro.
- CAU funds for Internationalization and Project Based Learning at CAU 20.000 Euro
Last invited presentations
- Keynote Speech at ELECTRIMACS 2017: Keynote Speech Electrimacs
- Keynote Speech at OPTIM 2017: Keynote Speech OPTIM
- Keynote Speech at CPE-POWERENG 2017: Keynote Speech CPE Powereng