Prof. Dr. Frede Blaabjerg
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Aalborg University, Denmark
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Frede Blaabjerg, received the M.Sc.EE. degree from Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Energy Technology, in 1995.
He was employed at ABB-Scandia, Randers, from 1987–1988. During 1988–1992, he was a Ph.D. student at Aalborg University, where he became an Assistant Professor in 1992, Associate Professor in 1996, Full Professor in power electronics and drives in 1998. In 2000 he was visiting professor in University of Padova, Italy and he became a part-time program research leader at Research Center Risoe in wind turbines. In the period of 2006-2010 he was the dean of the faculty of engineering, science and medicine at Aalborg University, Denmark, and became the Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Science in 2006. He is the author or coauthor of more than 300 publications in various research fields including a book Control in Power Electronics (Academic Press, 2002). His current research interests include power electronics, static power converters, ac drives, switched reluctance drives, modeling, characterization of power semiconductor devices and simulation, wind turbines, and green power inverters.
Prof. Blaabjerg has held a number of Chairman positions in research policy and research funding bodies
in Denmark. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, JOURNAL OF POWER ELECTRONICS, and of the Danish journal Elteknik. Since 2006 he has been Editor in Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS as well he is the distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2012. He received the 1995 Angelos Award for his contribution in modulation technique and control of electric drives, and an Annual Teacher Prize at Aalborg University, also in 1995. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has received five IEEE Prize Paper Awards during the last six years. He received the C.Y. O’Connor fellowship 2002 from Perth, Australia, the Statoil Prize in 2003 for his contributions in power electronics. He became IEEE Fellow in 2003, and received the Grundfos Prize in 2004 for his contributions in power electronics and drives.