IP1-1: Dr Ki-Bum Park

ABB Corporate Research
Baden-Daettwil
Switzerland
ki-bum.park@ch.abb.com

Biography
Dr. Ki-Bum Park received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2003, 2005, and 2010, respectively.
He worked as a Researcher with KAIST in 2010, focusing on Si/SiC-based high frequency power electronic converters. He is currently with ABB Corporate Research Center, Switzerland, as a Senior Scientist. His current research interests include power conversion system for EV charging infrastructure, grid integration of renewables, and application of wide bandgap semiconductor (SiC and GaN) in association with system-level optimization of power electronics. He has published more than 80 papers including one third in peer-reviewed journals.

IP1-2: Dr Sasa Djokic

School of Engineering
The University of Edinburgh
Scotland
UK
Sasa.Djokic@ed.ac.uk

Biography
Dr Sasa Djokic received Dipl.-Ing. and M. Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nis, Nis, Serbia, and Ph. D. degree in the same area from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, United Kingdom. He is currently a Reader in Electrical Power Systems at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, where he is teaching undergraduate and graduate (master and doctoral level) classes on Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, Power Systems, Electrical Machines, Power Systems Economics, Network Integration of Renewable Generation and Power Quality.
Dr Djokic has published around 250 papers, of which several have received IEEE Best Paper and Best Poster awards. Over the past 25 years, Dr Djokic has performed research in the areas of theoretical electromagnetics, illuminating engineering, several aspects of power quality analysis, load and microgeneration modelling, assessment of solar and offshore/onshore wind energy resources and, most recently, power system reliability and security analysis.
Dr Djokic is a recognized expert by IEC and has contributed to the several national and international standards, technical reports and engineering recommendations. He continues to be active in a number of ongoing CIGRE/CIRED, IEEE, IESNA, IEC/CISPR and other international Working Groups, Task Forces and Committees.

IP3-1: Prof. Jozef Varga

WOLONG-SEVER d.o.o.
Subotica
Serbia

Biography
Prof. Jozef Varga was born on April 7th, 1940 in the village of Majdan, as the oldest child of three children family. Elementary school finished in Majdan and Mali Idjos. High shool finished in Subotica at the Polytechnical High School "Ivan Saric". He successfully demonstrated his musical talent in the school orchestra. Higher education obtained in Higher Technical School in Subotica, and in Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade. In 1980. successfully defends the doctorate at the Budapest Technical and Economy University, as a Head Designer of Electric Machines. In his career, he worked both in industry (SEVER, Subotica) and on universities (Subotica, Budapest, Novi Sad, Belgrade). His business engagement started from the position of the Winding Technology Specialist, Design and Development department engineer, and after that he became the Expert for the Rotational Machines. As an university professor, he started in 1982. as the head of Electric Machines Department. In year 1988. he became assistant professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences. In year 1995. he became the foreign member of the Hungarian Science Academy. After retirement, he continues to work with the SEVER, develops the hydro generators, and issues scientific papers. Overall he issued more than 80 scientific papers in world recognized scientific conferences and newsletter, and numerous papers in regional conferences. His family proudly consists of his wife, son and daughter, and they have three grand children.

IP4-1: Prof. Vladimir Katic

University of Novi Sad,
Faculty of Technical Sciences,
Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6,
21000 Novi Sad
Republic of Serbia
katav@uns.ac.rs

Biography
Prof. Vladimir Katic is a Professor of the University of Novi Sad, the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia. He received B.Sc. degree from University of Novi Sad in 1978 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Belgrade in 1981 and 1991, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1978 he has been with the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, where he is currently the Vice-Dean.
He is the author or co-author of 22 scientific monograph, text books and teaching materials (scripts). He is the author or co-author of more than 550 scientific papers published in international and national journals or conference proceedings. His papers have been cited over 750 times, h=12 (according to the Scopus) or over 1400 times, h=18 (according to Google Scholar). Prof. Katic has been the head, main researcher or researcher in 14 international and around 50 national scientific projects or studies.
He is in the Editorial Boards of several scientific journals, reviewer of many the most prestigious journals and Member of Program or Steering Committees of more than 75 International Conferences around the World. He chaired numerous international and national conferences, among which EPE-PEMC 2012 ECCE Europe and International Symposium on Power Electronics – Ee are the most known.
Prof. Katić is a Senior Member of the IEEE (USA). He is also Founder and the President of the Power Electronic Society of Serbia (Novi Sad, Serbia), a Member of European Power Electronics Association (EPE) Executive Council (Brussels, Belgium), a Member of Power Electronics and Motion Control (PEMC) Executive Council (Budapest, Hungary), a Member of the Presidency of National Society of ETRAN (Belgrade, Serbia), a Member of National Committee of CIGRE (Belgrade, Serbia), and a Founder and a Member of the Executive Board of National Committee of CIRED (Novi Sad, Serbia).
The main fields of scientific and research interest of Prof. Katić are power quality, renewable energy sources, power electronics, electric vehicles and transportation and standardization in electrical engineering.

IP2-1: Dr Eckhard Thal

Mitsubishi Electric Europe
Ratingen
Germany

In 1980 Eckhard Thal graduated the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. Same year he joined ELPRO Berlin as design engineer in the inverter development. In 1991 he received his PhD in the field of power electronics at the Chemnitz University. Since 1991 he is working for Mitsubishi Electric Europe (Ratingen/Germany) in application engineering for power semiconductors.