Fernando Briz

BIOGRAPHY

(A’96–M’99–SM’06) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 1990 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo. His topics of interest include electronic power converters and ac drives, power systems, machine monitoring and diagnostics and digital signal processing.

Dr. Briz received an IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS Award and nine IEEE Industry Applications Society Conference and IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition prize paper awards. He is currently Chair of the Industrial Drives Committee of the IAS-IPCSD.

EDUCATION

• PhD Electrical Engineering University of Oviedo  1996

• MsC Industrial Engineering University of Oviedo 1990

• BsC Industrial Engineering University of Oviedo 1988

TECHNICAL SOCIETIES & CONFERENCES

• Deputy Editor in Chief Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (2022-2024)

• Member Executive Board IEEE Industry Applications Society (2022-2023)

• Editor Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (2019-2021)

• Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society – Industrial Power Converter Systems Department (2022-2023)

• Vice Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society – Industrial Power Converter Systems Department (2020-2021)

• Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society – Industrial Drives Committee (2018-2019)

• Publications Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society – Industrial Drives Committee (2016-2017)

• Program Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society – Industrial Drives Committee (2014-2015)

• Secretary of the IEEE Industry Applications Society – Industrial Drives Committee (2012-2013)

• Chair of the Awards Sub-committee of the Industrial Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-Industry Applications Society) from October 2008 to October 2010.

• Vice-chair of the Awards Sub-committee of the Industrial Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-Industry Applications Society) from October 2006 to October 2008.

• Associate Editor of IEEE Industry Applications Society – Industrial Drives Committee. 2007-2011, 2014-2015

• Chair for Motor drives control techniques, IEEE 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON’16), Florence, Italy

• International Steering Committee 4th IEEE Symposium on Sensorless Control for Electrical Drives 2016, Fiji

• International Steering Committee International Conference on Electrical Machines 2016 (ICEM'16), Lausanne, Switzerland

• Vice chair for Industrial Drives, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition 2012-2015 (ECCE’12- ECCE’15)

• Technical Committee Member of the 17th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS’14), Hangzhou, China

• Track Chair of the XXIth International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM'14), Berlin, Germany

• Track Chair of the 11th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation of Electric Machines, ELECTRIMACS'14, Valencia, Spain

• Guest Associate Editor IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Special Issue on Advanced Control of Electric Motor Drives, 2013

• International Steering Committee 4th IEEE Symposium on Sensorless Control for Electrical Drives 2013, Munich, Germany

• Chair of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Sensorless Control for Electrical Drives 2008, Barcelona, Spain

TEACHING

Master Degree: Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems

• • • Dynamic control of AC machines

    • Control and monitoring in renewable energy systems 

    • Power systems in hybrid and electric vehicles  

    • Generic and specific research topics 

Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Sustainable Transportation and Electrical Power Systems (EMMC STEPS)

• • • Design of hybrid (HEV) and electric vehicles (EV)

Erasmus Mundus Master on Mechatronics

• • • Sensors and actuators