Seminar 11: Power electronics for grid connected applications
Time: Tue 2018-06-05 15.00 - 17.00
Location: Teknikringen 33, floor 4, room 3412
Participating: Alireza Nami, ABB Corporate Research Center, Sweden
Bio: Alireza Nami (S’07–M’10–SM’16) received his Ph.D. in Power Electronics from Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in 2010. From 2010 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Center of Excellence, Kumamoto University, Japan. Since 2011, he has been with ABB Corporate Research Sweden initially as a Scientist and later as a Senior Scientist, a Principal Scientist, and an R&D Project leader, in the research field of power converter design and control for various applications especially high voltage and high power applications such as HVDC and FACTS, system integration technology for renewable energy sources, etc. Currently, he is R&D team manager and leading a power electronics team at ABB Corporate Research Centre, Vasteras, Sweden including extensive laboratory facilities for multi-megawatt testing capabilities enabling cutting edge research in the areas of grid connected power electronics. Dr. Nami has served several leading power electronics conferences as an invited speaker and a technical chair. He is author/co-author of number of conference and journal publications. He is inventor/co-inventor of several patent applications which have been adopted by the industry. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, a member of Cigre working group, and a member of the International Scientific Committee of EPE.