COLLABORATING RESEARCHERS
MARTÍNEZ-SALAMERO, LUIS received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in 1984, both at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain.
From 1978 to 1992, he taught circuit theory, analog electronics and power processing at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. From 1992 to 1993, he was a visiting professor at the Center for Solid State Power Conditioning and Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC. From 2003 to 2004 , 2010 to 2011, and March-September 2018 he was a visiting scholar at the Laboratory of Architecture and Systems Analysis (LAAS), National Agency for Scientific Research (CNRS), Toulouse, France. Since 1995 he has been a full professor with the Department of Electrical Electronic and Automatic Control Engineering , School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rovira i Virgili University , Tarragona, Spain, where he managed the Research Group in Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics (GAEI) in the period 1998-2018. His research interests include structure and control of power conditioning systems, namely, electrical architecture of satellites and electric vehicles, as well as nonlinear control of converters and drives, and power conditioning for renewable energy.
Dr. Martínez-Salamero has published a large number of papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings in the fields of modelling, simulation, and control of power converters, and holds a U.S. patent on dual voltage electrical distribution in vehicles. He was guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Special Issue on Simulation, Theory and Design of Switched-Analog Networks (Aug. 1997). He organized in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) the 5th European Space Power Conference (ESPC-98) in Tarragona and served during two terms (1996-2002) as a dean of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering . He was president of Spanish Joint Chapter of the IEEE Power Electronics and Industrial Electronics Societies from 2005 to 2008 , and distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in the period 2001-2002. He is currently distinguished professor of Rovira i Virgili University.
MANDAL, KUNTAL (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.