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Prof. Dr. Drazen Dujic

Head of Power Electronics Laboratory
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Drazen Dujic is an Associate Professor and Head of the Power Electronics Laboratory at EPFL. He received the Dipl.Ing. and MSc degrees from the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the PhD degree from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK in 2008.
From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Assistant with the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Novi Sad. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Research Associate with Liverpool John Moores University. After that, he moved to industry and joined ABB Switzerland Ltd, where from 2009 to 2013, he was a Scientist and then Principal Scientist with ABB Corporate Research Center in Baden-Dättwil, and from 2013 to 2014, he was R&D Platform Manager with ABB Medium Voltage Drives in Turgi. He has been with EPFL since 2014.
His research interests include the areas of design and control of advanced high-power electronic systems and high-performance drives, predominantly for the medium voltage applications related to electrical energy generation, conversion, and storage. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific publications and has filed 22 patents.
In 2024, he received the Istvan Nagy Award, in 2018, he received the EPE Outstanding Service Award, and in 2014 The Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Power Electronics. He is an IEEE Fellow.

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Solid-state transformers (SSTs) promise more flexible and efficient power conversion, but significant technical challenges still limit their large-scale commercial adoption. (Source: © Curie - stock.adobe.com)
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Inside the Solid State Transformers

The Solid State Transformer (SST) has been gaining tremendous attention, both in academia and industry, promising extraordinary (often hyped) power conversion performances, well beyond the current state of the art converters. Despite well-evidenced efforts, SST as a technology is still somewhat struggling to gain commercial traction and find its place on the market.

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