Speakers

Pavol Bauer is currently a full Professor with the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy of Delft University of Technology and head of DC Systems, Energy Conversion and Storage group. From 2002 to 2003 he was working partially at KEMA (DNV GL, Arnhem) on different projects related to power electronics applications in power systems.

He published over 180 journal and over 500 conference papers in his field (with H factor Google scholar 60, Web of Science 41), he is an author or co-author of 8 books, holds 10 international patents and organized several tutorials at the international conferences. He has worked on many projects for industry concerning wind and wave energy, power electronic applications for power systems such as Smarttrafo; HVDC systems, projects for smart cities such as PV charging of electric vehicles, PV and storage integration, contactless charging; and he participated in several Leonardo da Vinci, H2020 and Electric Mobility Europe EU projects as project partner (ELINA, INETELE, E-Pragmatic, Micact, Trolley 2.0, OSCD, P2P, Progressus, Tulip, Flow) and coordinator (PEMCWebLab.com-Edipe, SustEner, Eranet DCMICRO).

His main research interest is power electronics for charging of electric vehicles and DC grids. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (’97), former chairman of Benelux IEEE Joint Industry Applications Society, Power Electronics and Power Engineering Society chapter, chairman of the Power Electronics and Motion Control (PEMC) council,  chairman   of Benelux IEEE Industrial Electronics chapter, member of the Executive Committee of European Power Electronics Association (EPE) and member of international steering committee at numerous conferences.

Ladislau Matekovits (Senior Member, IEEE) received the degree in electronic engineering from Institutul Politehnic din Bucureşti, Bucharest, Romania, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree (Dottorato di Ricerca) in electronic engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 1995. Since 1995, he has been with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, first with a Postdoctoral Fellowship and then as a Research Assistant. In 2002, he joined the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, as an Assistant Professor. In 2005, he was appointed as a Senior Assistant Professor. In 2005, he was a Visiting Scientist with the Department of Antennas and Scattering, FGAN-FHR (now Fraunhofer Institute), Wachtberg, Germany. In July 2009, for two years, he has been a Marie Curie Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, where he also held a visiting academic position in 2013 and has been appointed as an Honorary Fellow in 2014. In February 2017, he obtained the full professor qualification in Italy. Since 2020, he has been an Honorary Professor with the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania, and an Associate Professor with the Italian National Research Council. He has been invited to serve as a research grant assessor for government funding calls (Romania, Italy, Croatia, Kazakhstan, and Iceland) and as an international expert in Ph.D. thesis evaluation by several universities from Australia, India, Pakistan, and Spain. He has published more than 400 articles, including more than 125 journal contributions, and delivered seminars on these topics all around the world: Europe, USA (AFRL/MITBoston), Australia, China, and Russia. His main research interests include numerical analysis of printed antennas and in particular development of new, numerically efficient full-wave techniques to analyze large arrays, and active and passive metamaterials for cloaking applications. Material parameter retrieval of these structures by inverse methods and different optimization techniques has also been considered. In the last years, bioelectromagnetic aspects have also been contemplated, such as example design of implantable antennas or the development of nano-antennas for example for drug delivery applications. He has been a member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), since 2010. He was appointed as a member of the National Council for the Attestation of University Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU), Romania, from 2020 to 2024. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee and the technical program committee member of several conferences. He was a recipient of various awards in international conferences, including the 1998 URSI Young Scientist Award, Thessaloniki, Greece; the Barzilai Award 1998 (Young Scientist Award, granted every two years by the Italian National Electromagnetic Group); and the Best AP2000 Oral Paper on Antennas, ESA-EUREL Millennium Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Davos, Switzerland. He was a recipient of the Motohisa Kanda Award, in 2018, for the most cited paper of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY in the past five years. He received the 2019 American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (ARA) Medal of Excellence in Science; the Ad Astra Award, in 2020; a Senior Researcher for Excellence in Research; the Outstanding Associate Editor Award for IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, in 2020; and one of the scientists with the highest level of scientific productivity (the top 2% in the world) prepared by Stanford University researchers, in 2022. He has been the Assistant Chairperson and the Publication Chairperson of the European Microwave Week 2002, Milan, Italy; and the General Chair of the 11th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets 2016). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, and IET MAP. He serves as a reviewer for different journals.