I received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree from Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., in 1997. From 1998 to 1999, I was an Application Engineer with Semikron International, Nuremberg, Germany, and from 1999 to 2003, a Group Leader at Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany, and responsible for the development of electric drives for electric vehicles. In 2003, I was appointed as a Senior Lecturer within the Power Electronics, Drives and Machines Research Group at Newcastle University and in 2011 I became a Professor of power electronics. I have published more than 80 papers in the area of power electronics. My current researches includes power electronics for automotive applications, thermal management, fault-tolerant converters and advanced nonlinear control. I have received the IMarEst Denny Medal for the Best Paper in the Journal of Marine Engineering and Technology in 2011. I also was Chairman of the Biannual International IET Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives in 2010. I am an Executive Steering Member of the IET PGCU network and a Member of the EPE.
