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Dr Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio
Director of Global Marketing Communications
EPC
Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is a Telecommunications Engineer. He is Director of Global Marketing Communications at EPC (Efficient Power Conversion), where he manages worldwide initiatives to showcase the company’s GaN innovations. He is a prolific technical author of books on GaN, SiC, energy harvesting, and data acquisition and control systems, and has extensive experience as an editor for technical magazines and online publications in power electronics, wide bandgap semiconductors, and embedded systems.
Articles of the author
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