AECP team

Faculty

Head of the Power Electronics and Electric Drives Lab

Full Professor

Full Professor

Full Professor

Full Professor

Daniel Fernández Alonso Universidad de Oviedo Gijón

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Post-doctoral

Mariam Saeed 

Current work: Electronic power converters and high frequency transformers 

Field: electronic power converters and high frequency transformers 

BIOGRAPHY

Mariam Saeed (S’16) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ain Shams, Cairo, Egypt, in 2013 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 2015 and 2020 respectively. Her research interests include electronic power converters and high frequency transformers.

PhD Students

Lidia Sánchez Alonso

Thesis: New technologies for the optimization of green-hydrogen generation  

Field: Power Converters

Affiliation: AECP, University of Oviedo

Supervisor: David Díaz

BIOGRAPHY

Lidia received the B.S. degree in Industrial Chemical Engineering in 2019 and the M.S. degree in Electric Energy Conversion and Power Systems in 2021, from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain. She has been a researcher with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, Computers and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo since 2021. She is currently a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering. Her research interests include high power converters and renewable energy generation. 

Javier Gómez-Aleixandre

Thesis: Control and monitoring of variable-flux permanent magnet synchronous machines

Field: Electric Drives and Power Converters

Affiliation: AECP, University of Oviedo

Supervisor: David Díaz

BIOGRAPHY

Javier received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.S degree in Electric Energy Conversion and Power Systems from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. From September 2014 to November 2022, he was a R&D engineer in the steelmaking industry in various topics related to physical modelling, with his last years more focused on modeling electromagnetic phenomena. He is currently a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering. His research interests include electric machines diagnosis, fault detection, sensorless control and digital signal processing.

Diego García De Vega 

Thesis

Field: Electric Drives & Power Converters

Affiliation: University of Oviedo

BIOGRAPHY

Diego holds a B.S degree in Electrical Engineering since 2022, and a M.S degree in Electric Energy Conversion and Power Systems, since in 2024, both from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain. Since 2024, he has been engaged in research with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, Computers, and Systems Engineering at the University of Oviedo. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, his research focuses on the design and control of electric machines, ferromagnetic materials loss estimation, power electronics, and digital signal processing.

Javier Fuente Díaz

Thesis: Losses minimization of PM drives for EVs operating at high speed 

Field: Electric Drives and Power Converters

Affiliation: AECP, University of Oviedo

Supervisor: María Martínez, Daniel Fernández

BIOGRAPHY

Saad Ahmad

Thesis: DC link control for battery hybrid trains 

Field: Power Converters

Affiliation: AECP, University of Oviedo

Supervisor: Fernando Briz, Juan Manuel Guerrero

BIOGRAPHY

Parsa Behzad Nazif

Thesis: Digital twins of electric traction systems for railway  

Field: Power Converters

Affiliation: AECP, University of Oviedo

Supervisor: Fernando Briz, Juan Manuel Guerrero

BIOGRAPHY

Lander Lejarza

Thesis: Control optimization of traction drives for high-speed trains 

Field: Power Converters

Affiliation: INGETEAM - Traction Systems - Railway & Mobility

Supervisor: Fernando Briz, Juan Manuel Guerrero

BIOGRAPHY

Abdulrahman Mostafa

Thesis: Design and optimization of hybrid power filters  

Field: Power Converters

Affiliation: AECP-UNIOVI

Supervisor: Fernando Briz, Juan Manuel Guerrero

BIOGRAPHY

Maitane Carrasco

Thesis: Advanced control strategies development and validation for electric drives wit WBG semiconductors   

Field: Power Converters

Affiliation: Ikerlan

Supervisor: Juan Manuel Guerrero, Amaia López de Heredia

BIOGRAPHY

Haitham Hassan 

Thesis: Analysis, design and control of cascaded PV panel converters connected with integrated transfomers

Field: Power converters, energy efficiency, microgrids & smartgrids

Affiliation: University of Oviedo

BIOGRAPHY

Past Post-doc and PhD Students

Paul Alejandro Frutos

Thesis: "Stability analysis and Control Methods to Mitigate Low Frequency Oscillation in High Speed Trains"

Field: Control and Power Converters

Current Affiliation

Ahmed F. Abouzeid 

Thesis: "Design an Efficient Control Strategy of Inverter-Fed Induction Machines for Railway Applications" 

Field: Control and monitoring of electric drives

Current Affiliation: Researcher and Lecturer assistant at Port Said University

Tadele Lijalem Yirisaw

Thesis: To be defiend

Field: Electric machines and drives

Affiliation: Doctoral Candidate at Rolls-Royce-Electrical

Nihal Vishnu Vantagodi 

Field: Electric Drives

Current Affiliation: ERC GmbH

Ye Gu Kang

Field: Power converters, energy efficiency, electric drives

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor at Korea tech


Carlos Lumbreras Iglesias

Thesis: "Design and control alternatives for microwind generation systems"

Field: Power converters, energy efficiency, electric drives

Current Affiliation: AST-Ingeniería

Cristina Gonzalez Moral

Thesis: "3-phase 4-leg (3P4L) converters control for massive electric energy storage systems integration in low voltage grids"

Field: Power converters, energy efficiency, microgrids & smartgrids

Current Affiliation: ELINSA

Jose María Cuartas

Field: Power converters, energy efficiency, microgrids & smartgrids

Affiliation: ENCE

Visiting Students

Matteo Filipozzi

University of Padova

Title of MsC thesis: Torque Estimation of Synchronous Reluctance Machine Using High Frequency Signal Injection

Period: February 2020 - June 2020 

Supervisors: Nicola Bianchi, Daniel Fernández 

Anita Vegro

University of Padova

Title of MsC thesis: Modulation and control strategies for the elimination of the 2F filter in traction drives for railway 

Period: November 2019 - April 2020 

Supervisors: Nicola Bianchi, Fernando Briz 

Tomasso Moretto 

University of Padova

Title of MsC thesis: Simulation models and experimental verification of losses in Induction Motor Drives 

Period: February 2019 - December 2019

Supervisors: Nicola Bianchi, Fernando Briz 

Carlo Piccoli  

University of Padova

Title of MsC thesis: Construction and commissioning of a three-phase four-leg grid-forming inverter  

Period: September 2018 - April 2019 

Supervisors: Nicola Bianchi, Fernando Briz 

Federica Chiereghin   

University of Padova

Title of MsC thesis: Comparative analysis of design and control strategies for Three-Phase Four-Legs Power Converters   

Period: February 2017 - December 2017  

Supervisors: Nicola Bianchi, Fernando Briz