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Frede Blaabjerg is professor of power electronics and drives at Aalborg University in Denmark.
Earlier in his career, he was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988, and afterward
joined Aalborg University where he became an assistant professor in 1992, an associate professor in
1996, and a full professor in 1998. He has been a part time research leader in Research Center Risoe
in wind turbines. From 2006 to 2010, he was the dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Science, and
Medicine at Aalborg University and became a visiting professor in Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,
China, in 2009. He is also guest professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shandong University,
and Shanghai Maritime University in China. He is currently heading the Center of Reliable Power
Electronics (CORPE) located at Aalborg University. He has published extensively with major
emphasis on power electronics and its applications, such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability
in power electronics, harmonics, power quality, and adjustable speed drives.
He received the 1995 Angelos Award for his contribution in modulation techniques and the
Annual Professor Award from Aalborg University. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Young
Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society and over the years has
received 17 IEEE Prize Paper Awards. He received the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in
2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, and the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics
Award in 2014. He has also received a number of major research awards in Denmark, such as the
Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award in 2014.
Dr. Blaabjerg is an IEEE fellow. He was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power
Electronics from 2006 to 2012 and distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society
from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011. He was the
chairman of EPE in 2007 and PEDG in 2012, both held in Aalborg. In 2002, he founded the IEEE
Danish joint chapter for PELS/IAS/IES. He has also been ADCOM member of PELS twice, serv-
ing the last term from 2013 to 2015. He was elected and served as vice president for products in the
Power Electronics Society for 2015–2016. He was also chairman of IEEE FEPPCON in 2015 held
in Italy and is a member of a couple of technical committees in PELS as well as in the EPE organiza-
tion. For many years, he has been involved in research funding and policies in Denmark and Europe.

Dan M. Ionel is professor of electrical engineering and the L. Stanley Pigman chair in power at
the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Previously, he worked in industry for 25 years,
most recently as chief engineer for Regal Beloit Corp. and, before that, as the chief scientist for
Vestas Wind Turbines. Concurrently with his industrial appointments, Dr. Ionel also served as visit-
ing and research professor at the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. He is currently the director of the SPARK Laboratory and of the PEIK Institute at the
University of Kentucky, teaching and researching on topics of sustainable and renewable energy
technologies, electric machines and power electronic drives, electromagnetic devices, electric power
systems, smart grids, and buildings.
He has contributed to technology developments with long-lasting industrial impact, including the
world’s most powerful wind turbine and United States’ most successful range of PM motor drives.
His research benefited from multimillion dollar support directly from industry as well as from the
NSF, NIST, and DOE. In the industry, he received the Innovation Award from AO Smith Corp. and
the Archer Inventor Award from Regal Beloit Corp. During his PhD studies, he was a Leverhulme
visiting fellow at the University of Bath in England. He was a keynote and invited speaker at major
international conferences. Three of his publications received IEEE Best Paper Awards. He holds
more than 30 patents, including a medal winner at the Geneva Invention Fair.

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