Here, you can find an overview of all ECPE Member Companies and Competence Centres, along with the ECPE Network Brochure. This brochure serves as a members' compendium, featuring individual pages for each Member Company and Competence Centre to highlight their profiles and achievements.
To explore the locations of all our members across Europe, please see the link below.
Department of Microsystems Engineering – IMTEK
Laboratory for Assembly and Packaging Technology
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wilde
Innsbruck Power Electronics Lab. (i-PEL)
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Petar J. Grbović
Centre of Competence for Distributed Electric Power Technology (KDEE)
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Jens Friebe
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Institute of Robotics
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Miroslav Milanovic
Chair in Energy Electronics at the Electrical Power Engineering Unit (EPEU)
ECPE Contact:
Bashir Bakhshideh Zad
The Chair in Energy Electronics at the University of Mons (UMONS) fosters research, innovation, and education in power electronics with the objective of supporting the energy transition and decarbonization across various sectors such as power grids, mobility, transport, and industry. The Chair is hosted by the Electrical Power Engineering Unit (EPEU) of UMONS, which consists of a team of 4 academics and over 20 (PhD and Postdoctoral) researchers. The Chair is supported by ALSTOM Belgium within the framework of the 'Contribute for Wallonia' innovation platform. Alstom Belgium hosts two centers of excellence, including the Charleroi site, which is dedicated to electrical power conversion, energy storage, and energy efficiency. The Contribute for Wallonia innovation platform unites major industrial stakeholders, both large enterprises and SMEs, with academic and research institutions in Wallonia to collectively drive the development of a sustainable and inclusive future economy. This innovation platform is part of a larger European initiative aimed at defining Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) for Wallonia. The Chair in Energy Electronics at UMONS collaborates closely with members of the Contribute for Wallonia innovation platform, including Alstom, Aisin Europe, Sabca, Thales Alenia Space, and others on the topics (among others) related to design, modelling, control, and reliability of power electronic systems. A non-exhaustive list of the research areas covered by the Chair is provided below.
Control and stability of power electronics-dominated power grids
Next-generation power electronic converters with high energy efficiency, power density, and reliability for mobility and transportation applications
Smart electric railway grids integrating EV charging stations, energy storage systems, and renewable generation units
Multilevel and modular multilevel converters for medium- to high-voltage applications
Artificial intelligence and digital twin techniques for enhanced operation, monitoring, and management of power electronic systems (e.g., battery state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation, condition monitoring of power converters, etc.)
Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (LEA)
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Jakub Kucka
The Department of Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (LEA) at Paderborn University is a research group consisting of approx. 15 employees, led by Prof. Jakub Kucka. The research spans from basic research, investigating the potentially groundbreaking technologies, to industry cooperations, focusing on the practical challenges.
The overall research profile can be described within four areas:
Power Electronic Converter Design
Power electronics is one of the focus topics of our department. Our research ranges from the investigation of semiconductor switches (with a focus on wide-band-gap semiconductors) via converter design optimization for different topologies to converter control techniques.
To validate our investigations experimentally, we utilize our laboratory facilities containing programmable voltage and current sources, a semi-automatized double-pulse-test station, a calorimetric chamber, climate chambers, power meters, and high-frequency scopes. Furthermore, a medium-voltage test facility is planned for 2026 to enable validation of medium-voltage power converters.
Magnetics
Since the wide-band-gap power semiconductors have been introduced, the bottleneck for the efficient and compact power electronic converter design has been shifted from the switching devices towards the magnetic components. The high switching frequencies, required for reducing the converter’s size, pose novel challenges on the core materials and overall component design.
At LEA, we investigate how different effects within the magnetic components can be effectively modeled to design optimized high-frequency inductors and transformers and estimate their losses. Our laboratory is equipped to build the magnetic components (custom ferrite cores can be ground using a CNC milling machine) and to test these in converter applications and via power amplifiers.
Grid-Tied Converters
The electrical grid as we know it is undergoing a rapid transformation to integrate the renewable energy sources. Due to diminishing rotational inertia of the grid, the control strategy of the grid-connected converters must be rethought.
At LEA, we investigate different control strategies to operate the grid converters in so-called grid-forming operation mode. This kind of operation enables an operation of grid-tied converters in islanded mode without the necessity of conventional power plants, contributing to the future stability of the grids.
Beside the theoretical analysis, we can test our control approaches experimentally at our unique 4 MW microgrid test bench developed within the MicrogridLab project.
Electrical Drives
Electric drives are central to a wide range of industrial and power generation applications, and their importance in transportation continues to grow. In our department, we investigate novel methods for modeling and control that can further optimize their efficiency and performance, spanning established techniques, model-based optimal control, and self-commissioning machine learning.
For experimental validation, we work with several test benches equipped with state-of-the-art rapid control prototyping tools, a diverse set of machine types, and power capabilities from 1 to 250 kW.
Open-Source Science
The overview of our projects published as open source can be found here:
Power Electronics Laboratory
Department of Information Engineering (DEI)
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Paolo Tenti
Institute of Electrical Power Engineering
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Hans-Günter Eckel
Power Electronics Group - School of Engineering
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Leopoldo García Franquelo
Chair of Interconnected Automation Systems (IAS)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Oliver Wallscheid
SDU Electrical Engineering
Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE)
Mads Clausen Institute
ECPE Contacts:
Prof. Dr. Horst-Günter Rubahn
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Ebel
Institute of Robust Power Semiconductor Systems (ILH)
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Ingmar Kallfass
Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ILEA)
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Roth-Stielow
Department of Electrical Engineering
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Elena Lomonova
Instrumentation and Industrial Electronics Laboratory (LEII)
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Vicente Esteve-Gomez
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Zdenek Peroutka
Power Electronics and Electric Drives Laboratory (PED Lab.)
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Fabio Crescimbini
Prof. Luca Solero
Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives
ECPE Contact:
Prof. Dr. Manfred Schrödl
Prof. Dr. Uwe Drofenik
Postal address ECPE e.V.:
ECPE European Center for Power Electronics e.V.
Ostendstrasse 181
D-90482 Nuremberg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)911 81 02 88-0
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