KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Front-end Converters for Medium Voltage Applications

Prof. Joachim Holtz
IEEE Fellow
University of Wuppertal, Germany

Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Joachim Holtz received his Ph.D. in 1969 from the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany. He became Associate Professor in 1969 and in 1971 Full Professor and Head of the Control Engineering Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. He joined the Siemens Research Laboratories in Erlangen, Germany in 1972. From 1976 to 1998, he was Professor and Head of the Electrical Machines and Drives Laboratory, Wuppertal University, Germany. He is presently Professor Emeritus and a consultant.

Dr. Holtz has been published extensively, including 12 invited papers in journals. He has received 11 paper prize awards. He is the coauthor of four books and holds 31 patents.

Dr. Holtz is the recipient of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Dr. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award, the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award, the IEEE Power Electronics Society William E. Newell Field Award, the IEEE Third Millenium Medal, and the IEEE Lamme Gold Medal. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Past Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.