Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marco Liserre
Head of the Chair
B-114
Phone:
+49 431 880-6100
Telefax:
+49 431 880-6103
ml@tf.uni-kiel.de
Details
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)
- Listed from 2014 in “The world’s most influential scientific minds” (highly cited) by ISI Thomson
- Chair of the Technical Committee on Electronic Grid System, IEEE-PELS, 2021-2023
- Co-Editor in Chief of the Open Journal on Power Electronics
- Convenor and Founder of the CIGRE Working Group "Power electronics-based transformer technology, design, grid integration and services provision to the distribution grid"
- Member of scientific advisory board in Kopernikus-project ENSURE
- Member of the Program committee of the DFG Priority Program “Energieeffiziente Leistungselektronik, GaNius” 2020, 6 years initiative
- 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 507 technical papers (167 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: 38000 citations (h-index 77) in Google Scholar. Some of the papers have been among the most downloaded from the overall IEEE Explore library and from the journals where they have been published.
Awards
- 2020 IEEE PES Working Group Award - Outstanding Technical Report “Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Examples”, PES-TR-66, May 2018.
- Second Place Prize Paper Award for 2018 in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
- 2018 Mittelmann Achievement Award in recognition of his attainment in development of power electronic systems for distributed generation and power quality improvement
- 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
- Initiator for the Kiel University of an European Erasmus Mundus Master (acceptance rate < 10%) in e-mobility (E-Pico, https://master-epico.ec-nantes.fr/). 2020-2025.
- Responsible of Energy Conversion Battery Laboratory BAEW Kiel, European Structural Funding. In cooperation with research teams in Material Science. 2.000.000 Euro. 2020-2023.
- Main responsible of DACH Project (with EPFL), within the SPP 1984 "Robust Control Design of Converter-Interfaced Resources in Hybrid Electricity Grids under Consideration of Harmonic Stability 300.000 Euro (part of CAU
- Local Responsible of WindGrid "Wind farm - grid interactions: exploration and development" H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 EU Innovative Traiining Networks Project for a budget of 500.000 Euro, 2019-2023. (acceptance rate 8%)
- Repsonsible of the Project: "DSDS" (doppelt Schnell Doppelt Sicher), funded by the Gesellschaft für Energie und Klimaschutz Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (EKSH), 2019-2021, of 150.000 Euro.
- Coordinator of the Prject "Kielflex" (Auschreibung Saubere Luft) for an overall budget of 9.000.000 Euro (900.000 Euro the part of 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%)
- 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 1.300.000 Euro.
- 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 for the University of Kiel, of “Power Electronics Region” EU Interreg project, 600.000 Euro.
- Local responsible of the Project RELINK, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, 600.000 Euro.
- Local responsible of the Project AddOn, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, 350.000 Euro.
- Responsible of the “Großgeräte der Länder” project “Thermal Characterization of Power Electronic Converters (TCPEC)”, 2015, 460.000 Euro.
- Main responsible of DACH Project (with EPFL), within the SPP 1984 "Formal stability assessment of hybrid distribution grids based on the correct modeling of the effect of synchronization of the power electronics interfaces" 300.000 Euro (part of CAU)
- 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 EKSH Fellowships 165.000 Euro.
- Responsible of ERC Proof of Concept Grant U-HEART. 150.000 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.
- Responsible of 4 industrial PhDs.
Last invited presentations
- Tutorial IPEMC 2020 - ECCE Asia - online
- Invited presentation Power Electronics Network Schleswig-Holstein 2020 - online: Speech PE Network SH 2020
- Invited presentation at Konferenz Interesseverband Netzimpedanz 2020 - online: Speech Netzimpedanz 2020
- Tutorial ECCE 2020 - ECCE USA - online
- Keynote Speech at NEIS 2020 - online: Keynote Speech NEIS 2020
- Keynote Speech at ENERGYCON 2020 - online: Keynote Speech ENERGYCON 2020
- Keynote Speech at IPEMC 2020 - ECCE Asia - online: Keynote Speech IPEMC 2020
- Keynote Speech at ISESEE 2020 - online: Keynote Speech ISESEE 2020
- Opening Speech IEEE PES German Chapter Workshop, Kiel, Germany.
- PhD School Third Edition, Kiel, 2020 "Grid forming Power Converters, Smart Transformers and Hybrid Grids": PhD School
- ECCE 2019 Special Section on grid-forming inverters, Baltimore, USA, October 2019: Speech ECCE 2019
- ECCE 2019 Special Section on multiwinding dc-dc converters, Baltimore, USA, October 2019: Speech ECCE 2019
- ICMT 2019, Salerno, Italy, October 2019: Keynote Speech ICMT
- IECON 2019, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2019: Keynote Speech IECON
- Tutorial Powertech 2019, Milan, Italy, 2019
- Invited Presentation at the Workshop on DC Network, Neumunster, Germany, October 2018: Speech DC Network
- Invited lecture at the PhD School of the DFG Priority Program 1984, 2018: Lecture PhD School
- Tutorial ECCE 2018 - ECCE USA, Portland, USA, September 2018
- Invited presentation at the ECCE 2018 Special Section, Portland, USA, September 2018: Speech ECCE 2018
- Invited presentation at the ECCE 2018 Special Section, Portland, USA, September 2018: Speech ECCE 2018
- Keynote Speech at ELECTRIMACS Conference, Toulouse, France, July 2018: Keynote Speech Electrimacs
- Keynote Speech at AEIT Conference, Bari, Italy, October 2018: Keynote Speech AEIT 2018
- Invited presentation at ECCE Workshop, Husum, Germany, June 2018: Speech ECPE Workshop
- Invited presentation at PCIM Fachforum, Nuremberg, Germany, May 2018: Speech PCIM Fachforum
- Hannover Messe, Hannover, Germany, April 2018: Speech Hannover
- Workshop, Warsaw, Poland 2018: Speech ST
- Speech Warsaw, Poland 2018: Speech HEART
- Keynote Speech at OPTIM 2017, Brasov, Rumenia, 2017: Keynote Speech OPTIM 2017
- Tutorial Powertech 2017, Manchster, UK, 2017
- Keynote Speech at CPE-POWERENG 2017, Cadiz, Spain, 2017: Keynote Speech CPE Powereng
- IEEE eT&D, Aalborg, Denmark, Nov 2017: eT&D Speech
- Keynote Speech at ECPE 2016: Keynote Speech ECPE 2016
- Invited presentation at CORPE Workshop, Aalborg, Denmark, Nov 2015
- Invited presentation at INDIN 2015, Cambridge, UK: Keynote Speech INDIN 2015
- Keynote Speech at ICRERA 2013, Madrid, Spain, 2013: Keynote Speech ICRERA
- Keynote Speech at EDPE 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2013: Keynote Speech EDPE