Development of Electric Motors for e-Mobility with Reduced Reliance on Critical Materials

Shafigh Nategh received his Ph.D. degree in electric power engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, in part of 2012 to 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Lead Designer of PM machines for marine segment with the Rolls-Royce Group, Trondheim, Norway. He continued his career as a Designer of traction motors for railway applications with Bombardier Transportation, Västerås, Sweden, from 2015 to 2018. He was an R&D Senior Engineer with E-mobility Department, ABB AB, Västerås, Sweden, in 2018–2020, and Principal Engineer with Volvo Cars, Göteborg, Sweden, in 2020-2022. During this period, he held a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. He was a Senior Principal Engineer and also Manager of Electric Drive Unit CAE and Electromagnetic Design with Polestar, Göteborg, Sweden. He is currently a Principal Consultant and Technologist as SEDRIVE AB and Co-founder of YEESMA SARL. Dr. Nategh is a Chair of IEEE IES Electrical Machines Technical Committee, Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, and technical Chair/Co-chair of several electrical machine conferences. His research interests include different aspects of electrical machine design in e-mobility, marine, aerospace and railway applications.