Prof. Davide Barater, UniMORE, IEEE-IES EMTC Vice-Chair (Summer school Chair)

Davide Barater (Senior member IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology in 2014 from the University of Parma Italy. 

He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. His research area is focused on power electronics and electrical machines for e-mobility and motor drives. 

He is the Coordinator of the European Project AUTO-MEA that aims to develop novel solutions for windings structures based on hairpin technology for improved power density, efficiency and increased frequency operation. https://www.automea.unimore.it. He is vice-chair of the IEEE Industrial electronics society Electrical Machines Technical Committee and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He is author or co-author of more than 100 papers on scientific journals and international conferences.

Prof. Giovanni Franceschini, UniMORE

Prof. Giovanni Franceschini – was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1960. He received the Master degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. From 1990 to 2018, he was with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, where he was Full Professor of electric machines and drives, also holding the position of Vice Rector of the University of Parma, and before Head of the Department of Information Engineering. In 2018 he joined the Department of Engineering Enzo Ferrari at the University of Modena and Reggio, Italy, where he is currently Full Professor of electric machines and drives. His research interests include high-performance electric drives and diagnostic techniques for industrial electric system. He is the author of more than 150 technical papers. During his career he was the responsible individual of the University of Parma group of national and international grants.

Prof. Sonia Leva, PoliMi

SONIA LEVA (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2001. She is currently a Full Professor of electrical engineering with the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano. She is also the Director of the Solar Tech Laboratory (SolarTechLAB) and the Laboratory of MicroGrids (MG2LAB), Politecnico di Milano. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society and a member of the IEEE Working Group Distributed Resources Modeling and Analysis. She is author and coauthor of more that 200 paper and she holds 2 industrial patents. Her research includes renewable sources modelling and control, Load and generation forecasting, microgrid optimization, storage modelling. Sonia Leva has obtained several prizes and recognitions for her research activity. She is also Editor and Associate Editor of some international journals. He has given several invited talks and lectures in various European, Asian and American countries.

Prof Michela Longo, PoliMi

Prof. MICHELA LONGO (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in mechatronics, information, innovative technologies and mathematical methods from the University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, in 2013. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano. She is a member of technical committees of national and international scientific conferences. In addition to her research activities, she has consistently developed teaching activities at the university and higher education levels. Finally, She has participated in several research projects funded by private enterprises and national public agencies. She directs international scientific collaborations with prestigious research centers in Europe, America and Asia. She is the author of 2 books, book chapters and more than 200 articles that have appeared in international scientific journals, proceedings of international conferences and national journals.

Prof. David Gerada, The University of Nottingham, Project DORNA coordinator

David Gerada received the Ph.D. degree in high-speed electrical machines from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK in 2012. From 2007-2016 he was with the R&D Department at Cummins Inc. At Cummins he pioneered the design and development of high speed electrical machines, transforming a challenging technology into a reliable one suitable for the transportation market, and establishing industry-wide used metrics for such machinery. In 2016 he joined the University of Nottingham, where he is currently a Professor, responsible for developing state of the art electrical machines for future transportation which push existing technology boundaries, while propelling the new technologies to high technology readiness levels (TRL). Prof. Gerada is a Chartered Engineer in the U.K. and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Prof. Gerada is a member of the Power Electronics, Machines and Control research group.

Dr. Shafigh Nategh, Huawei, IEEE-IES EMTC Chair

Shafigh Nategh was born in 1984. He received the Ph.D. degree in electric power engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, from 2012 to 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Lead Designer of PM machines for marine segment with the Rolls-Royce Group, Trondheim, Norway. He continued his career as a Designer of traction motors for railway applications with Bombardier Transportation, Västerås, Sweden, from 2015 to 2018. He was an R&D Senior Engineer with E-mobility Department, ABB AB, Västerås, Sweden, in 2018–2020, and Principal Engineer with Volvo Cars, Göteborg, Sweden, in 2020-2022. During this period, he held a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. He was a Senior Principal Engineer and also Manager of Electric Drive Unit CAE and Electromagnetic Design with Polestar, Göteborg, Sweden. He is currently an Electric Motor Expert at Huawei Research Center. Dr. Nategh is a Chair of IEEE IES Electrical Machines Technical Committee, Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, and technical Chair/Co-chair of several electrical machine conferences. His research interests include different aspects of electrical machine design in consumer electronics, e-mobility, marine, aerospace and railway applications.

Prof. Stefano Nuzzo, UniMORE

Prof. Stefano Nuzzo – (IEEE member) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2018 from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K, Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Group. Since January 2019, he was with the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari” at University of Modena and Reggio, Modena, Italy, where He is currently assistant professor of Electrical machines and drives. His research interests are the analysis, modelling and optimizations of electrical machines, with focus on salient-pole synchronous generators and brushless excitation systems for industrial power generation applications.
He is also involved in a number of diverse projects related to the more electric aircraft initiative and associated fields. Prof. Nuzzo is a Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). He is associated editor of IEEE transactions on Transportation Electrification and He constantly serves the scientific community as a reviewer for several journals and conferences.