Prof. Daniel Siemaszko
Power electronics
Daniel Siemaszko received the M.Sc. degree from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland in 2005 and the PhD. degree at the Industrial Electronics Laboratory (EPFL-LEI) in 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Alfred Rufer. He came to Royal Institute of Technology (KTH-EME), Stockholm, as a Post-Doc working on MMC with Prof. Hans-Peter Nee.
In 2009 he joined CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, as a fellow researcher on powering strategies of a future linear collider, focussing on reliability and integration. He then worked as control R&D engineer on grid connected converter with ABB MV-Drives, Switzerland. In 2014 he founded PESC-CH, an independant consultancy company for power electronics and systems in Geneva. He was specialised in DC substation energy recovery and modular BESS solutions for the medium voltage range. In 2020, he joined Hitachi Energy as a senior R&D engineer working on SST for MVDC, E-mobility and direct AC/AC static frequency converters.
From July 1st 2025, he is Associate Professor in power electronics at the Swiss University of Applied Science in Yverdon-les-Bain, Swtzerland.