Uwe Drofenik

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Univ. Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr.techn. Uwe Wilhelm Drofenik was appointed as University Professor for Power electronics at TU Wien with effect from April 17, 2024. He is assigned to the Institute Energy Systems and Electrical Drives , opens in new windowat the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, opens in new window.

Uwe Drofenik studied electrical engineering at the TU Wien (with honors) and then received his doctorate in 1999 with a dissertation on the subject of "Optimization and experimental analysis of the stationary operating behavior of a Vienna Rectifier, opens an external URL in a new window" (also with honors). After a short stay at the University of Tokyo as a visiting researcher and as a postdoc at the TU Wien, he moved to ETH Zurich in 2001 as a postdoc or senior assistant, where he led the development of simulation and optimization software for power electronics. During this time he was also co-founder and managing director of the ETH spin-off company Gecko-Research GmbH. In 2008 he moved to ABB Corporate Research, first as Principal Scientist, and from 2018 as Senior Principal Scientist. His research focus was on highly compact converter systems that are connected to the medium-voltage network. In 2022, Uwe Drofenik worked at ABB E-Mobility on research strategies, patents and intellectual property (IP), as well as IP strategies. During his time in industry, he wrote more than 50 patents and taught power electronics courses at ABB Corporate Research.

Uwe Drofenik's scientific home is now the Research Unit of Leistungselektronik (E370-04) at the aforementioned institute, which he also heads. There his research focuses on magnetic components ("kilohertz at kiloamperes"), on medium-voltage power electronics for sustainable energy systems in the megawatt range (such as photovoltaics, electric vehicles, data centers, hydrogen production, energy storage), and on the modeling and optimization of complex energy conversion systems with a focus on efficiency , cooling, standards and cost models.

Publications by Uwe Drofenik in the Scopus , opens an external URL in a new windowdatabase and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window of the TU Wien.