DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Ubaid Ahmad received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2015, and the M.S. degree in Energy Engineering (Majoring in Power Electronics) from Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, South Korea, in 2019. From Aug. 2019 to Aug. 2021, he was a Research Assistant at the Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Laboratory (PEEC Lab.) at the Department of Energy Engineering. He is now enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in a project (Funded by URV and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA), fellowship 2020MFP-COFUND-20) entitled 'Distributed Power Electronics Architectures for Photovoltaic Power Plants' at the Department d'Enginyeria Electronica, Electrica i Automatica (the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI)) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain. His current research interests include high-frequency magnetic design, resonant power conversion, and modeling and control of power converters for photovoltaic power plants and bipolar dc distribution systems.
Ramon Estalella Rodríguez received the Industrial Electronics and Automatics Engineering degree in 2018 from the University Rovira i Virgili. He received the master's degree in Electric Vehicle Technologies in 2019 from the University Rovira i Virgili. During 2018 and 2019 he worked as a technician for the GAEI research group. In 2019, he joined the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI) of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili as a PhD student. His main research interests include renewable energies, switching converters, numerical techniques for power stage design and filtering for power converters.
Xavier Genaro-Muñoz received the B.S. degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering and the M.S. degree in Technology and Electronic Systems Engineering from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He joined the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI) of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in 2017, where he worked as a research technician supporting some GAEI research projects. In 2020, he joined the GAEI research team where he is working towards his Ph.D. His main research interests include DC-DC and AC-DC converters, control strategies such as Sliding-Mode Control, microgrids management, multi-frequency power transmission, renewable energies and electric vehicle tecnologies.
El Nouha Mammeri was born in Algiers. She received the Electrical Engineering degree in 2018 from the Houari Boumediene University of Sciences and Technology (USTHB) in Algiers, Algeria. She received the master's degree in Industrial Systems Engineering from the same university in 2019 and 2020 respectively. In 2022 she joined the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI) of the Rovira i Virgili University in which she is working towards her PhD degree. Her research is about DC-DC converters, control strategies and electric vehicles.
Mahmoud Nassary received his M.Sc. degree from Aswan university, Egypt. He worked as a system design engineer with a USA company in a LED project which was based on a US patent of his. From 2013 to 2016, he was a cofounder and power electronics engineer of Eco Electric solution startup for LED and PV systems. He holds a US patent and has published 8 scientific articles. In 2020, he joined the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI) of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili where he is working toward his PhD. His main research interests include AC-DC power electronics converters, PFC (Modelling, Control, Analysis, Design) for LED and battery charger applications.
Max Sebastia-Rullo received the B.S. degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering and the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering both in 2020 from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Tarragona, Spain. He received the Master Engineering degree in Electric Vehicle Technologies in 2021 also from Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He joined in 2021 the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI) , where he worked as a research technician supporting some GAEI research projects. In 2022, he joined the GAEI research team where he is working towards his Ph.D. His main research interests include DC-DC converters, power converter stabilization strategies such as active damping, reutilization of energy losses, renewable energies and electric vehicle technologies.
Seyedamin Valedsaravi received the master's degree in Electrical Engineering-Power Engineering in 2015 from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI) of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). His main research interests include microgrids control, power electronic converters, intelligent optimization methods, and renewable energies.
David Alejandro Zambrano-Prada received the Electronical Engineering degree in 2014 and the Master of Control Engineering in 2019 from Universidad de Ibague, Colombia. During 2015 and 2019, he worked a young researcher in the D+TEC research group in the Universidad de Ibague in control of DC-DC converters, energy storage system and microgrids.
In 2020, he joined the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI) of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, where he is working towards his PhD. His main research interests include control of energy storage system within DC microgrids, electric vehicles, DC-DC Converters and Sliding Mode Control.
Alexandra Blanch Fortuna obtained her bachelor's degree in Industrial and Automatic Electronic Engineering and her master's degree in Electric Vehicle Technologies from the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, in 2022 and 2023, respectively. In 2023, she joined the research team at GAEI, where she is working on her Ph.D. Her main research interests include DC-DC and AC-DC converters, control strategies, and electric vehicle technologies.
Miguel Antonio Pisani Orta received in 2021 the title of Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica "José Antonio Echeverría", La Habana, Cuba. Later on, he enrolled in a Master's Degree course on Electric Vehicle Technologies taught by Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), obtaining such degree in 2023. Throughout year 2023 he worked at Applus+ IDIADA in the area related to batteries for electric vehicles, where engaged deep research within the field of Battery Management Systems.
Currently he is a PhD student at Universitat Rovira i Virgili and is associated to the "Grup de Recerca en Control Automàtic i Electrònica Industrial" (GAEI) of the same institution. His main interests are: state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation of Li-ion battery cells applied in the automotive industry, and optimization of charging algorithms to reduce to a minimum the effect of high current rates on the lifespan of the electro-chemical cells.
Maria Cortada Torellino he received the Mechanical Engineering degree in 2019 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He received the master's degree in Electric Vehicle Technologies from Rovira i Virgili University in 2020. In 2021, he joined the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Research Group (GAEI) of Rovira i Virgili University in which is working on his Ph.D. His main research interests are the degradation of lithium batteries and the effect of forces and impacts on their electrical response.