EUROPEAN PHD SCHOOL 2023 PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

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MONDAY May 22, 2023 

08:30 –09:00 Registration desk open 

09:00 – 09:30 Opening Session @ Conference Room 

09:30 – 10:15 Keynote 1 @ Conference Room 

Dr. Greg Ombach (Airbus, DE) Aircraft Electrification 

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break 

10:45 – 11:30 Keynote 2 @ Conference Room 

Fabio Carastro (Semikron Danfoss, DE) SiC Power Modules 

11:30 – 13:00 Presentations by participant companies 

13:00 – 14:30 Welcome Lunch 

14:30 – 16:00 Poster Session A (last year PhD’s) 

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break 

16:15 – 18:30 PhD-Company Meetings (Recruitment) 

19:30 Transfer to dinner 

20:00 – 22:30 Social Dinner and Award Ceremony 


TUESDAY May 23, 2023 

09:00 – 10:00 Keynote 3 @ Conference Room 

Prof. Carlo Alberto Nucci (Univ. of Bologna, IT) – Mission Climate Neutral and Smart Cities

10:00 – 12:30 Lecture 1 @ Conference Room 

Prof. Michael Hartmann (TU Graz, AT) Industrial Variable Speed Drives in LV and MV. Still something to do? 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break 

13:30 – 15:30 LIVE DEMO SESSION by companies 

15:30 – 17:30 Lecture 2 @ Conference Room 

Dr. Christof Zwyssig (Celeroton, CH) High rpm Electrical Machines for Turbo Compressors 


WEDNESDAY May 24, 2023 

09:00 – 10:00 Keynote 4 @ Conference Room 

Marco Aimo Boot (Iveco Group, IT) Heavy Duty Vehicle Electrification 

10:00 – 12:30 Lecture 3 @ Conference Room 

Prof. Peter Zacharias (Univ. of Kassel, DE) 

Magnetics in Power Electronics 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break 

13:30 – 14:30 Poster Session B (1st and 2nd year PhD’s) 

14:30 – 18:00 Lecture 4 @ Conference Room 

Prof. Dong Dong (CPES, US) 

Modular Soft-switched High-Frequency High-Power DC Transformer (DCX) for Electrified Energy Systems 

20:00 – 22:30 Pizza Dinner 


THURSDAY May 25, 2023 

09:00 – 10:00 Keynote 5 @ Conference Room 

Dr. Damiano D’Aguanno (Mercedes AMG, UK) Electric Machine Design and Optimisation Trends in Automotive and Formula 1 Motorsport 

10:00 – 12:30 Lecture 5 @ Conference Room 

Dr. Daniel Chartouni, Silvio Colombi (ABB, CH) Power Converters & Battery Systems 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break 

13:30 – 15:30 Lecture 6 @ Conference Room 

Prof. Thiago Batista Soeiro (Univ. of Twente, NL) 

Electric Vehicle Battery Charging: Power Electronics and Grid Integration 

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break 

16:00 – 18:30 Lecture 7 @ Conference Room 

Prof. Giampaolo Buticchi (Univ. of Nottingham Ningbo China, 

CN), Dr. Abraham Marquez Alcaide (Univ. of Sevilla, ES) 

Control for Reliability in Power Electronics 


FRIDAY May 26, 2023 

08:30 – 09:30 Keynote 6 @ Conference Room 

Enrico Poli, STMicroelectronics 

Smart Power for Motor Control: Challenges and Opportunities of GaN Technology 

09:30 – 12:00 Lecture 8 @ Conference Room 

Prof. Andreas Kuechler – (Technical University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, DE) 

Electrical Insulation at High Electrical Field Stresses 

12:00 – 13:00 Final Test for ECTS @ Conference Room 

13:00 – 13:45 Lunch Break 

13:45 – 20:00 Cultural Excursion