Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Dimosthenis Peftitsis is Professor of Power Electronics in the Department of Electrical Power Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway since May 2016. He received his Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece in 2008. In 2008 he spent six months in ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden, writing his thesis. He completed his Ph.D. degree at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2013.
Dimosthenis was a Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2013-2014). He also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lab for High Power Electronics Systems, ETH Zurich (2014- 2016). His research interests lie in the area of power converters design using WBG devices including device modeling and adaptive drive circuits, as well as reliability assessment and lifetime modelling of high-power semiconductor devices.
He has published more than 80 journal and conference papers; he is the co-author of one book chapter and the presenter of 5 conference tutorials. Dimosthenis is a member of the Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme at NTNU, a member of the EPE International Scientific Committee and currently serves as the Chairman on the Norway IEEE joint PELS/IAS/IES Chapter.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET