About the Award
The IEEE PELS Outstanding Achievement Award for Contributions in Power Electronics Grid Technology recognizes innovators and researchers who have made outstanding technical contributions to allow power electronics to take a managerial role in the future electronic grid.
Prize:
- Honorarium (USD 1,500)
- Plaque
- Reimbursement for necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony (USD 1,250 or, if a flight with a flying time over six hours is included, USD 2,500)
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Details About the
Award
2026: Giovanni De Carne
For contributions to the control, modeling, and experimental validation of power electronic grids
Giovanni De Carne received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Chair of Power Electronics, Kiel University, Germany, in 2018. Prof. De Carne is currently full professor at the Institute for Technical Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, where he leads the Real Time Systems for Energy Technologies Group and the “Power Hardware In the Loop Lab”. He is currently supervising PhD students, managing academic and industrial projects, and developing multi-MW power hardware in the loop testing infrastructures for energy storage and hydrogen-based systems. His research interests include power electronics integration in power systems, solid-state transformers, real-time modeling, and power hardware in the loop. He has authored/co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is Co-EiC of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics and associate editors for several IEEE journals.
Any active IEEE members are eligible for this award. There are no other restrictions as to affiliation, age, IEEE member grade, or nationality.
Criteria: Judgment of the award recipient will be based solely on the information provided in the nomination form. The criteria considered by the award selection committee are:
- Past relevant activities to the field and technical committee
- Quality of the nomination
- Quality of the technical achievement or innovation
- Sustained impact on the relevant technical community and the profession, benefit to the society
2025
Kai Sun
2024
Johan Enslin