Frede Blaabjerg - 2009 Distinguished Service Award Winner

Frede Blaabjerg, (S'86-M'88-SM'97-F’03)  received the M.Sc.EE. from Aalborg University, Denmark in 1987, and the PhD. degree from the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, in 1995. He was employed at ABB-Scandia, Randers, from 1987-1988. During 1988-1992 he was a PhD student at Aalborg University. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992 at Aalborg University, in 1996 Associate Professor and in 1998 full professor in power electronics and drives the same place.

In 2006 he became the Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine at Aalborg University. His research areas are in power electronics, static power converters, ac drives, switched reluctance drives, modeling, characterization of power semiconductor devices and simulation, wind turbines and green power inverter.

He is the author or co-author of more than 500  publications in his research fields including the book ‘Control in Power Electronics’ (Eds. M.P. Kazmierkowski, R. Krishnan, F. Blaabjerg) 2002, Academic Press. During the last years he has held a number of chairman positions in research policy and research funding bodies in Denmark. In 2007 he was appointed to the board of the Danish High Technolgy Foundation.

He has been associated editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Journal of Power Electronics  and  of the Danish journal Elteknik. In 2006 he became Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He received the 1995 Angelos Award for his contribution in modulation technique and control of electric drives, and an Annual Teacher prize at Aalborg University, also 1995. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has received nine IEEE Prize paper awards during the last ten years. He also received the C.Y. O’Connor fellowship 2002 from Perth, Australia, the Statoil-prize in 2003 for his contributions in power electronics and the Grundfos-prize in 2004 for his contributions in power electronics and drives. In 2005-2007 he has been distinguished lecturer for IEEE Power Electronics Society.

Source:  Award presentation flyer