PH. D. RESEARCHERS
Oswaldo Lopez-Santos received the electronics engineer degree from the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas in Bogotá - Colombia in 2002, the master degree on industrial automation from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá - Colombia in 2011, and the PhD degree from the Institute National des Sciencies Apliquées (INSA), Toulouse - France in 2015, developing his research project at the Laboratory of Architecture and Systems Analysis of the National Agency for Scientific Research (LAAS-CNRS). Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher associated to the Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Group of the URV (GAEI).
Luis Vázquez-Seisdedos received a B.S. degree in Automatic Control Engineering, a M.S. degree in Automation, and a PhD degree in Technical Science (Automation), from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, in 1982, 1999, and 2015 respectively. He has received an equivalent Ph.D. degree in Nanosystems Technologies, Bioengineering and Energy from the Rovira i Virgili University, Spain in 2022.
His research interests are focused on the control of electromechanical energy conversion systems. Namely, power plants based on both fossil fuel sources and renewable energy resources (RES), electric vehicles (EV), energy storage subsystems and its hybridization, electric drives, electrical traction systems, and RES´s and EV´s integration into electrical power systems. He is currently working on ultra-fast charging of electric vehicles and intelligent active damping in microgrids and electric vehicles. Since 2009, he is a member of the TC 6.3. Power and Energy Systems Committee of IFAC.
Kuntal Mandal (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree from the Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, North Bengal University, in 2003, the M.E. degree in control systems engineering from Jadavpur University in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur in 2013, all in electrical engineering. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India, and King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for more than four years (June, 2012 - January, 2017). He served as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Sikkim for more than 5 years (February, 2017 - August, 2022). Currently he is associated with the Group of Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics in the Department of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Automatic Control at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain as Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow. He has more than 40 publications in journals and conferences. His research interests include nonlinear modeling, stability, bifurcation, control of interconnected power electronic systems and their experimental validation.