Prof. Dr. Sérgio Vidal Garcia Oliveira

Sérgio Vidal Garcia Oliveira (S'00-M'05-SM'20) was born in Lages, SC, Brasil, in 1974. Dr. Oliveira is Technological Development and Innovative Extension Productivity Grant Holder DT-2 from CNPq, also a member of SOBRAEP - Brazilian Power Electronics Society; SBA - Brazilian Automatic Society; ABENGE - Brazilian Education in Engineering Association; IES - Industrial Electronics Society; PELS - Power Electronics Society, and IAS - Industry Applications Society. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB) in 1999 and M.Sc. and Dr. degrees in electrical engineering from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brasil, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He has been a Researcher on power electronics at FURB since 2004, and at UDESC, since 2012. His research interests are: integrated motor drives, solid-state transformers, distributed generation systems, FEM applied in the design of magnetic devices to power electronics, cybersecurity on power electronics, and power converters to electric traction systems.