People Biography

Frede Blaabjerg was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. He holds a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Aalborg University. He became an assistant professor in 1992, an associate professor in 1996, and a full professor of power electronics and drives in 1998 at AAU Energy. In 2017, he became a Villum Investigator. He received an honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania, in 2017, and Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Estonia, in 2018, and is an honorary professor of the University of Parma.

His current research interests include power electronics and its applications, such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality, and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 800 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of ten monographs and editor of twenty books in power electronics and its applications, e.g., the series (4 volumes) Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems published by Academic Press/Elsevier.
He has received 48 IEEE prize paper awards, including the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award in 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award in 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019, and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. He was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He was a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011, as well as from 2017 to 2018. In 2019-2020, he served as the president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has been vice-president of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. 

From 2014 to 2021, he was nominated by Thomson Reuters to be among the 250 most cited researchers in engineering in the world.