1st July 2025, I am thrilled to start this new life chapter as researcher and teacher in Power Electronics at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO) – School of Engineering and Management Vaud (HEIG-VD), in Yverdon-les-Bains Switzerland. I work litterally a stone’s throw from my hometown Ste-Croix, home of music automatons and the first windturbines in canton Vaud.
With Year 2050 as my own career horizon, I see challenges and opportunities for bringing some value in a society struggly with wars and global warming. My contribution will be related to the electrification of transportation and residential facilities as a way to decarbonise our local industries. My main topics of interest will be related to the introduction of DC microgrids, improving reliability and availability of power converters and systems, as well as modular converters for intermediate energy storage solutions.
I asked a large language model to draw an image about what is research in Power Electronics and it answered quite correct, Power Electronics is about the use of solid state devices for converting power from one electrical form to another. It is interfacing a power system to another while interacting with stored energies in inductive or capacitive elements. The way to adjust power flows is related to control systems, and the way to verify it is related to modelling. Finally, the scope of applications is mainly related to but not restricted to the insertion of uninterrupted renewable energies to the grid.
With that said, I am looking forward to building a teaching programme allowing young engineers to tackle electrical energy related challenges of the present and future.
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Generated by ChatGPT 1.2025.189 on 1st July 2025 with the following query: What is Research in Power Electronics?
