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Ground broken for new electromagnetic test centre

28 October, DTU’s director Claus Nielsen and - now former - head of our department Kristian Stubkjær broke the first ground for the new electromagnetic test centre.

The centre will strengthen DTU’s already leading international standing in the field of electromagnetic systems, especially microwave technology for wireless communication and remote sensing, which is used in mobile phones, radar, satellites, etc.

The building process is affected by the task of the neighbour building for the European Space Agency - ESA

“The requirement for high-precision measurements at the DTU-ESA facility means that the building work on the new centre must not cause vibrations during the periods when measurements are carried out for ESA. This is a special situation that we have to take into account at all

Photos: Christensen & Co architects and Mikal Schlosser

times, and that’s why much of the construction process will be controlled by satellites,” says Laila Halkjær, project manager at DTU Campus Service.

The electromagnetic test centre will be completed in early 2022, with ELINDCO A/S as the prime contractor. The architects are Christensen & Co architects as and Langvad A/S Arkitekter, and MOE A/S are the consulting engineers.

Grant for human-robot interactions

The Board of Directors of the foundation Direktør, dr. techn. A.N. Neergaards og Hustrus Fond has chosen to support Silvia Tolu’s application regarding the research project ‘Bio-Inspired Compliant Control for Safe HumanRobot Interactions’ with DKK 50,000 and a project from DTU Environment.

The short summary from Tolu’s application states: “The vision of using robots for patient rehabilitation requires a safe human robot interaction. This can be guaranteed by active compliance. The Panda robot, with torque sensors on 7 axes, is the ideal test-bench for bio-inspired motor control methods that have been developed at DTU within EU projects. Both researchers and students will benefit from testing the methodology on the physical platform”.

Silvia Tolu was up against 43 other applicants, and the board generally found the level extremely high. The grant was distributed by DTU Provost Rasmus Larsen at a reception at DTU in mid-November. The other grant recipient was Associate Professor Massimo Rollo from DTU Environment.

Two new Centres of Excellence at DTU

The Danish National Research Foundation has invited applicants to enter contract negotiations to establish two new Centers of Excellence at DTU.

Fellow at Haldor Topsøe, Stig Helveg, receives up to DKK 85.8 million to establish the Center for Visualizing Catalytic Processes (VISION). In connection with the creation of the center, Stig Helveg will shift to a professorship at DTU Physics.

Professor Jesper Mørk from DTU Fotonik receives up to DKK 62.5 million to establish the Center for Nanophotonics (NanoPhoton), which will investigate the interaction between light and semiconductor nanostructures.

NanoPhoton is a close collaboration between DTU Fotonik, DTU Nanolab, DTU Mechanical Engineering and our department (Olav Breinbjerg, Electromagnetic Systems) around the development of new theory, topology optimization, nanofabrication technology, and visualization to explore and understand an entirely new regime of lightmatter interaction.

Highly Cited Researchers 2019 list

A report from Clarivate Analytics places Pierre Pinson, head of Energy Analytics and Markets (ELMA) in our CEE group, on the list of most cited researchers in the world.

The Highly Cited Researchers 2019 list is recognizing the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science

With approximately 6,000,000 researchers in the world and 6,008 researchers on the 2019 ‘Most Cited Researchers list’ Pierre Pinson is among top 0,1 % of the most influential researchers in the world.

Pinson’s work is mainly related to the application of mathematical modeling and decision-making methods to the energy sector. The primary focus of his research is on easing the large scale integration of renewable energies into power systems and electricity markets, based on stochastic process modeling, forecasting, optimization and decision-making under uncertainty.

When asked what it means to him to be acknowledged in the Cross Field category, he says:

“It is such a great pleasure and honour. It motivates me even more to pursue our high-impact research on forecasting, optimization and game theory for energy systems and markets”.

IEEE Fellow

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has elevated Pierre Pinson from our CEE group to IEEE Fellow, effective from 1 January 2020, with the citation “for contributions to wind power forecasting techniques in renewable energy integration”. This citation is supported by a number of research outcomes, contributions to education and service, in relation to forecasting, optimization and game theory for energy systems and markets.

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed onetenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.”

AMTA Fellow

The Antenna Measurement Techniques Association’s (AMTA) Board of Directors has awarded Olav Breinbjerg from our Electromagnetic Systems group the 2019 Edmond S. Gillespie Fellowship “for outstanding and pioneering contributions to the theory, practice and art of antenna measurements”.

The fellowship is named after Professor E.S. Gillespie (1928-2007) of California State University, Northridge who was a highly recognized pioneer in the field of antennas and antenna measurements. The award ceremony took place at the 2019 AMTA Meeting and Symposium in San Diego, California, October 2019.

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Thorkild Amdi Christensen

Olav Breinbjerg is recognized for his technical-scientific research on theory and practice of high-accuracy spherical near-field antenna measurements in relation to DTU Elektro’s DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility.

Proof of Concept grants

Seven exciting DTU projects were awarded DTU’s Proof of Concept (PoC) grant of up to DKK 500,000 in November.

Researchers from our Electronics Group; Zhe Zhang, Xu Chen, and Yi Dou won one of them with their groundbreaking multiple output, position free wireless charging technology.

The Skycap project, Pere Llimós Muntal and Dennis Øland Larsen, also Electronics group, received both the DTU Proof of Concept grant and the DTU Discovery Grant

The Skycap technology allows for the design of switchedcapacitor power converter integrated circuits (ICs) that can sustain high voltage, deliver high power, that are small, low cost, efficient and scalable.

The PoC grant is an important milestone in the road towards commercialization and is given to research projects with huge commercial potential and impact.

In 2019 DTU has awarded over DKK 6 million in PoC grants, enabling 19 research projects to move strongly forward in their commercial journey. The PoC grant is a vital step in

the start-up journey and to the future development and maturation of DTU technologies. The grant covers a period of 12 months and is awarded three times a year.

PhD student award

In October PhD student Marie Claire Capolei from our Automation and Control group (Center for Playware) received the Kanako Miura Memorial Travel Support Award for PhD students during the IEEE Humanoids conference award ceremony in Toronto, Canada.

In recognition of Dr. Kanako Miura’s contributions to Humanoid Robotics, the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Humanoid Robotics (has) established the Kanako Miura Memorial Travel Support Award for PhD and MSc female students entering the field of humanoid robotics.

Best paper presentation award

In November Seyedmostafa Hashemi Toghroljerdi from our CEE group received a Best Paper Presentation Award for presenting the paper ‘Economic Evaluation of Frequency Reserve Provision using Battery Energy Storage’ (Authors: Alessandro Filippa, Seyedmostafa Hashemi

Toghroljerdi, and Chresten Træholt) at the conference 2019 IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy and Power Engineering, Toronto, Canada.

The paper investigates the economic benefit of providing frequency-controlled normal operation reserve (FCR-N) using battery energy storage systems (BESS) under Eastern Denmark’s (DK2) regulations.

The main influencing factors, including the legal framework, energy tariffs and taxation, and battery degradation are investigated, concluding that provision of FCR-N using BESS is economic in certain future scenarios. This work was a part of a newly funded project entitled ‘BOSS: Bornholm smartgrid secured by grid connected battery systems’ co-funded by Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP).

Team qualified for robotic challenge in Abu Dhabi

A joint effort by Franz Heuchel, Diego Nozal and Efrén Fernandez Grande, from our Acoustic Technology group has won this year’s Danish Sound pitch battle. Franz presented his and Diego’s paper ‘Sound Field Control for Outdoor Concerts’ and both were especially thankful to Efrén for all his help in preparing the presentation.

Young researchers based in Danish universities are annually invited to join the Danish Research Talent Pitch Battle at Danish Sound Day to present their research to leading industry representatives, investors, researchers and organisations from the Danish Sound ecosystem. Read more: http://kortlink.dk/dtu/2439f

DTU Elektro’s team of researchers and students in Automation and Control have been qualified for the international competition MBZIRC - Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotic Challenge. MBZIRC takes place in Abu Dhabi (UAE) in February 2020, and is organized by Khalifa University. At the event the Danish team will battle against teams from all over the world.

In 2017, the team from DTU Elektro participated in MBZIRC and at that time secured a silver medal in one of the competition’s challenges.

Read more (in Danish): http://kortlink.dk/dtu/2439s

Pitch winner

Photo: Bax Lindhardt

ECCE award

During this year’s IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2019) in Baltimore, Maryland (USA) in October an award was presented for the paper ‘Active Virtual Ground--Single-Phase Transformerless Grid-Connected Voltage Source Inverter Topology’ to Xu Chen, guest PhD student in our Electronics group.

The selection of the paper is a high honour and a tribute to the fine research quality, presentation, and potential impact that the research has to the field. The selection process was rigorous and went through multiple review levels and votes before the paper was selected for an award.

Xu Chen had applied for a US visa to attend the conference, but unfortunately the visa was not issued in time for him to go to Baltimore, but his co-authors were present: River Tin Ho Li, Member, IEEE, as well as Carl Ngai Man Ho, Senior Member, IEEE, and they received the award on Xu Chen’s behalf.

Playware’s MOTO Tiles wins Best Senior Care and Rehabilitation Award

Global Health and Pharma (GHP), a global healthcare publication based in the United Kingdom, recently honored Henrik Hautop Lund of our Center for Playware with the award for the Best Senior Care and Rehabilitation – Northern Europe for the Moto Tiles at its 2019 GHP Technology Awards.

PHD DEFENCES

Supervisors:

PhD student Armita Pegah Barkhordari from our Automation and Control group defended her PhD thesis titled ‘Data-driven Condition Monitoring of Switches and Crossings’ on 1 November 2019.

Principal supervisor: Roberto Galeazzi, DTU Elektro Supervisor: Mogens Blanke, DTU Elektro

Examiners:

Hans Henrik Niemann, DTU Elektro

Assistant Professor Silvio Semani, University of Ferrara, Italy. Assistant Professor Valeri Markine, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Chairperson at defence: Søren Hansen, DTU Elektro

Supervisors:

PhD student Jens Christian Hertel from our Electronics group defended his PhD thesis titled ‘High Efficiency synchronous Rectifier using Integrated Phase Locked Loop’ on 22 November 2019.

Principal supervisor: Arnold Knott, DTU Elektro Supervisor: Ivan H.H. Jørgensen, DTU Elektro Supervisor: PhD Toke Meyer Andersen, NPC

Examiners:

Zhe Zhang, DTU Elektro

Principal Francesco Carobolante, Iotissimo, Reno, Nevada

Prof. Dr.-Ing Bernhard Wicht, Inst. of Microelectronic Systems, Mixed-Signal Circuits, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Chairperson at defence: Ziwei Ouyang, DTU Elektro

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PhD student Bahtiyar Can Karatas from our CEE group defended his PhD thesis titled ‘Voltage Stability in RES based power systems’ on 2 december 2019.

Principal supervisor: Arne Hejde Nielsen, DTU Elektro Supervisor: Hjörtur Jóhannsson, DTU Elektro

Examiners:

Qiuwei Wu, DTU Elektro

Professor Fangxing Li, University of Tennessee, USA

Professor Vladimir Terzija, University of Manchester, UK

Chairperson at defence: Nenad Mijatovic, DTU Elektro

Supervisors:

PhD student Hanmin Cai from our CEE group defended his thesis titled ‘Demand Response for Integrated Heat and Electricity Systems’ on 11 December 2019.

Principal supervisor: Henrik W. Bindner, DTU Elektro

Supervisor: Shi You, DTU Elektro

Examiners:

Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, DTU Elektro

Professor Koen Kok, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Professor Luca Ferrarini, Politecnico Milano, Italy

Chairperson at defence: Oliver Gehrke, DTU Elektro

Supervisors:

PhD student Thibaut Richert from our CEE group defended his thesis titled ‘Modelling, operation and control of power-to-heat units in integrated energy systems’ on 16 December 2019.

Principal supervisor: Henrik W. Bindner, DTU Elektro

Supervisor: Oliver Gehrke, DTU Elektro

Supervisor: Professor Henrik Madsen, DTU Compute

Examiners:

Shi You, DTU Elektro

Dr. Meysam Qadrdan, Cardiff University, UK

Ass. Professor Patrick Lauenburg, E.ON Energilösningar, Sweden

Chairperson at defence: Kai Heussen, DTU Elektro

EXTERNAL COLLABORATION

Exterior renovation of DTU-ESA facility is completed

In October DTU Elektro’s building 353, housing the DTUESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility and two other laboratories, has had a complete renovation of its exterior walls. The aged grey metal plates from the late 1960s have been discarded and replaced with 150 mm insulation material, a fiber-cement plate, and new black metal plates on the outside.

Furthermore, all old doors and windows have been renewed, and a lightning protection system has been installed on the roof. The insulation will facilitate a more stable temperature for the experiments in the laboratories using less energy, and the lightning protection system will ensure that critical experiments are not interrupted by power failures due to lightning.

With this 2019 exterior renovation and the 2017/18 building infrastructure upgrade, DTU Elektro now has a high-quality building 353 ready for the next 50 years of advanced antenna measurements.

DTU Elektro contact: Olav Breinbjerg

Intelligent drones must inspect the safety of Danish ships

A new project in our Automation and Control group will develop an intelligent drone, which will be able to recognize on its own more than 99% of the possible

errors that may occur on ships when they undergo a safety inspection. Drones with Artificial Intelligence can thus deliver more accurate and objective results than human beings. Innovation Fund Denmark has invested 11.8 million DKK in the project. Read more: http://kortlink.dk/dtu/243tk

DTU Elektro contact: Evangelos Boukas

Q&A: Next generation of robots get situation awareness

Robots that can read their surroundings and adapt their actions thereafter are currently being developed, says Ole Ravn, head of our Automation and Control group. Read the Q&A published in DTU magazine DYNAMO in October: http://kortlink.dk/dtu/243tq

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NORDEN

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Mikal Schlosser

Recommendations for future sustainable energy solutions

On 8 October close to 150 people met in Nordhavn for the final conference for the EnergyLab Nordhavn Project

Since 2015, EnergyLab Nordhavn has developed solutions and methods for sustainable and flexible energy systems in the cities of the future. This has been done in close collaboration between researchers at DTU, Danish industrial and energy companies, and the vibrant urban laboratory in the Copenhagen district of Nordhavn.

At the conference the project presented some of the key results and handed over a set of recommendations to politicians, public authorities, and energy suppliers.

The recommendations point out how we can optimally utilize the potentials of sustainable, flexible, and sectorlinked energy solutions, including by providing input to changes of a number of current obstacles in the current Danish legislation and fiscal structure. Obstacles identified by EnergyLab Nordhavn through its work to create a flexible digital energy system in the Copenhagen district of Nordhavn.

Examples include making energy taxes more uniform across energy types and exploiting the potential of buildings for energy storage that can subsequently be made available to

the energy system. In addition, access to data from energy suppliers is to be ensured as a basis for continued innovation and development in this area.

The recommendations was handed over to the Director General of the Danish Energy Agency, Kristoffer Böttzauw, at the conference. Kristoffer Böttzauw praised the EnergyLab Nordhavn project as being an extraordinary example and a front runner for the front runners

Jacob Østergaard (head of our CEE group), who has been the initiator of the project and is a member of EnergyLab Nordhavn’s Steering Committee said:

“In EnergyLab Nordhavn, we’ve demonstrated how a smart energy system ranging across electricity, heating, buildings, and transport can be realized and function in a vibrant city. It’s now time for politicians and public authorities to implement the recommendations in the existing legislation so that it matches the development needed to achieve a faster and smarter green transition in Denmark.”

The EnergyLab Nordhavn recommendations: http://kortlink.dk/energylabnordhavn/2447y Watch video on the Energy Lab Nordhavn project: https://youtu.be/gqdtAZrL7O8

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TEACHING AND EDUCATION

Two engineering camps for girls in 2020

Our department and DTU Mechanical Engineering will host two engineering camps for 50 high school girls in the Easter and autumn holidays 2020.

Widex’ philanthropy fund have donated DKK 700,000 for the organization of the camps. The project is anchored to the DTU board of directors with Provost Rasmus Larsen, who has overall managerial responsibility for DTU’s equality initiatives. A project manager, who will be hired by AFR (DTU’s central communication unit), is responsible for the programming and coordination of the camps in close dialogue with the departments, including enrollments, accommodation, catering, marketing, etc.

DTU Elektro contact: Michael A.E. Andersen

Girls’ Day in Science

In connection with Girls’ Day in Science, DTU opened its doors to 336 girls from high schools and lower secondary schools on 2 October.

Women are under-represented in study programmes in IT, technology, and the natural sciences. Figures from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science show that women account for only 32 per cent of the intake on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) study programmes. But in an increasingly technological world, we need both women and men to be able to use and take part in the development of new technology.

Girls’ Day in Science is an initiative to promote STEM to young girls and an annual event organized in collaboration with the House of Natural Sciences and Tektanken

47 high school girls had enrolled in the workshop ‘How do we design a sustainable energy system?’ which took place at our department. The workshop activities covered a guided tour to the Electric Vehicle Lab and High Voltage Lab plus hands-on experience and brief lectures.

Read more here: http://kortlink.dk/dtu/243wb and here: http://kortlink.dk/dtu/243wd

Photos from Girls’ Day in Science at DTU: Mikal Schlosser

Project Day MSc Electrical Engineering

This year’s inspiring Project Day (EE) took place midNovember 2019, and welcomed more than 20 companies, including Danfoss, Siemens Denmark, NKT, and Mobile Industrial Robots A/S. The companies presented their projects to more than 100 attentive graduate and undergraduate students.

The next project day will take place in November 2020.

DTU Elektro contacts: Kerstin L. Smith and Zhe Zhang

Best teacher of the semester

At a Department staff meeting on 10 December 2019 it was announced by our Deputy Head of Department Michael A.E. Andersen that the best teacher of the Spring 2019 and June/July/August 2019 semester is:

Jalal Kazempour, from our Center for Electric Power and Energy, for the BSc course ‘General electrical engineering’ (Almen elektroteknik 31710).

The best teacher nominations are based upon the student

evaluations received and examined by the Department’s Board of Studies and Management.

The general electrical engineering course and the teacher received excellent student evaluations.

Selected student quotes on the Jalal’s teaching:

“Jalal explains things very comprehensively.”

“He is one of the best teachers I have had at DTU.”

“Amazing teacher, captivating lectures.”

“Jalal is excellent at making difficult topics easy”

At the meeting Jalal received a best teacher diploma together with a box of Peter Beier chocolates. He also received a big round of applause from the audience.

New autonomous systems course

From February 2020 a new MSc course will be offered: ‘Perception for Autonomous Systems’ (31392).

The new course is an integral part of the new MSc in Autonomous Systems, but is also relevant for many other students.

The aim of this course is to enable students to transform sensory input from a variety of imaging and 3D sensors into more abstract descriptions of the observed scene. Thus, such techniques will allow autonomous systems to perceive their environment and act within it or interact with it. The course will provide both the mathematical descriptions and programming tools to implement such perception techniques.

Course responsibles: Lazaros Nalpantidis and Evangelos Boukas

Photo: Benny Johansen

Photo: Kerstin

L. Smith

Course on integrated energy systems for Sichuan University

In October 22 selected bachelor students from the College of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, China, completed a course ‘integrated energy systems’ hosted by our CEE group as a continuing education programme.

Through the 10 course days, the participants learned about the latest developments in the integrated energy systems in Denmark, including a 2-day hands-on on powerto-heat solutions at our full-scale Smart Grid Laboratory, PowerLabDK-SYSLAB, at Risø.

They also visited EnergyLab Nordhavn to learn experience of demonstration of integrated energy systems at distribution level in Copenhagen, and discussed with experts from Energi & Forsynning on how to handle the electro-technical challenges in connection with having a high penetration of renewables in the grid on the Bornholm Island.

All the participants expressed that they learned a lot in the course, and they will benefit from it when they continue with the study of renewable energy integration in China.

DTU Elektro contact: Yi Zong

Video on MEYER SOUND-DTU collaboration

More than just another summer rock festival, Denmark’s Roskilde Festival is a broad meeting ground where music, visual arts and technology come together to form a dynamic creative community. During the 2019 Roskilde Festival the American company Meyer Sound partnered with the festival’s creative team and DTU students from our MSc Eng in Engineering Acoustics/and our Acoustic Technology group to design and construct an intriguing “sonic crystals” demonstration project.

Watch the video produced by Meyer Sound which also features Finn Agerkvist (head of ACT) explaining the sonic crystals thing:

https://meyersound.com/video/sonic-crystals

Read more here: https://meyersound.com/news/sonic-crystals

Photos: Nalle Magnusson + MEYER SOUND

TALKS / SEMINARS HELD

In connection with Armita Pegah Barkhordari’s PhD defence on 1 November two guest lectures were held.

Professor Silvio Simani from University of Ferarra, Italy, gave a lecture entitled ‘Modelling, Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control for Renewable Energy Conversion Systems: Wind Turbines and Hydroelectric Plants’. Valeri Markine from Railway Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands gave a lecture entitled ‘Performancebased design and optimisation of railway crossings’.

DTU Elektro contact: Ole Ravn

In connection with Jens Christian Hertel’s PhD defence on 22 November two guest lectures were held.

Principal Francesco Carobolante, Iotissimo, Reno, Nevada, USA, gave a lecture entitled ‘10Gb/s*1TDEVICES/1ms=5G,’ or more traditionally ‘Energy efficiency challenges in the 5G era’. Professor Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Wicht, Inst. of Microelectronic Systems, Mixed-Signal Circuits, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany, gave a lecture entitled ‘Tiny and Efficient – Power Management as a Key Function in Microelectronic Systems’.

DTU Elektro contact: Michael A.E. Andersen

Professor Fangxing Li from University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA, gave a talk titled ‘From AlphaGo to Power System AI: Achieving 100x Acceleration for Contingency Screening with Uncertain Scenarios Using Deep CNN’ on 3 December.

DTU Elektro contact: Quiwei Wu

PUBLIC OUTREACH

Complex model of the human brain controls robot

The robots of tomorrow will be able to both adapt to changes in their surroundings and learn new tasks.

A research unit headed by Silvia Tolu (Automation and Control group) has developed a new bio-inspired control system for robots based on the human cerebellum.

The cerebellum controls our movements and adjusts them to the surroundings, both in relation to activating the right muscles when—for example—we are to walk and in relation to making the necessary adjustments to enable us to continue walking even though the surface changes or rocks like the deck of a ship.

HCØ2020

In 2020 Denmark celebrates the 200th anniversary of H.C. Ørsted’s discovery of electromagnetism. HCØ2020 is a national dissemination initiative targeted at children, young people and adults. The project is being implemented by DTU in collaboration with Astra (the national science center), the Experimentarium, the Danish Universities and the Society of Sciences covering the three focus areas of the project: Education, Culture and Science.

Contributions from DTU Elektro:

• DTU Alumni New Year’s lounge at our department

• EUCAP Conference

• DTU RoboCup – including H.C. Ørsted challenge

• Other small events are in the making …

Read more about HCØ2020 (in Danish): https://hco2020.dk

EuCAP 2020 attracts a record high number of papers

Our Electromagnetic Systems group is organizing the 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) to take place 15-20 March, 2020 in Bella Center, Copenhagen. By the submission deadline on October 18th, 2019 a record high number of 1550+ scientific papers had been received; this exceeds the previous record of EuCAP 2018 in London by more than 15%.

Read more about EuCAP2020: https://www.eucap2020.org

Visit from technical high school

On 22 November 15 students and a teacher from the Technical High School of Southern Jutland/Teknisk gymnasium Sønderjylland, Sønderborg payed the department a visit. The HTX students heard about our study programmes and about being a student at DTU/ DTU Elektro. The HTX students then went on a tour and visited the Radio Anechoic Chamber and the electronics laboratories, among others.

DTU Elektro contact: Kaj Bjarne Jakobsen

C40 delegation visits EnergyLab Nordhavn

As part of the official C40 Cities’ activities in Copenhagen in October 2019 a delegation visited Nordhavn. More than 50 people from all over the world met up in Nordhavn where they were given a guided tour and presentation of the many demonstrations. The tour included the battery, heat booster technology, consumer engagement, smart heat pumps and grid balancing services.

The tour marked the ending of a busy week for EnergyLab Nordhavn and stressed the overwhelming interest in the project from abroad. During the last four years more than 150 delegations from all over the world have visited EnergyLab Nordhavn where they have been able to see for themselves how Danish digital energy technology solutions—which are among the leading solutions in the world—can be used in a city.

New Year’s gathering 2020

The usual New Year get together where we will wish each other Happy New Year - and have an opportunity to reflect over achievements in 2019 and the challenges ahead in 2020 takes place on Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 14:30, at AGORA, building 329A

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Kaj

Bjarne Jakobsen

Goodbye to Kristian Stubkjær

On 26 November our department, other colleagues from DTU and external guest, friends and family took part in –now former department head – Kristian Stubkjær’s farewell reception. Over 200 people attended the reception with speeches given by DTU president Anders Bjarklev, Kristian himself, and Jacob Østergaard - representing the Leaders’ group at Elektro - among others. The speeches even included two light bulb jokes – which is a habit of Kristian’s.

Kristian has been head of our department since 2008, and has been employed at DTU for a total of 39 years in a number of different positions.

In a thank you email after the reception Kristian wrote:

“Dear colleagues,

I was happy that many of you had time to attend my farewell reception last Tuesday. Also thank you for the oversized greeting card that had so many signatures as well as the Kay Bojesen elephant from the department. I will take well care of the elephant as a very good memory of the many good years at DTU Elektro.

Thank you for the tremendous effort that has resulted in the strong standing of the department.

All the best wishes for success in the future.”

The practical part of the reception was organized by Louise Falk from our CEE group.

Photos : Rikke Høm Jensen and C. Hermann

External research stays

Ahmed Ammar, PhD student in our Electronics group, is completing his 3-months visit to the University of Oxford, UK, by end of December. During his visit to Power Electronics Group, Ahmed worked on the design of high-power-density bidirectional converters for electric vehicles charging systems, towards on-board charger implementations that enable EVs to store and return electric power to the grid.

Efren Fernandez Grande from our Acoustic Technology group is currently on a one-month research visit to University of California, San Diego, in a collaboration with Adjunct Professor Peter Gerstoft and his team. They are working on data-driven models and adversarial networks for acoustic bandwidth extension.

New colleagues

Postdocs

Alessandro Singlitico has joined our CEE group (ELSY) as a postdoc (Technoeconomic Analysis of Power-to-Gas and Battery Energy Storage) on 1 October 2019.

Mengchu Song has joined our Automation and Control group as a postdoc on 1 October 2019.

PhD students

Kristian Weber Larsen has joined our Automation and Control group as a PhD student on 1 October 2019. Kristian’s project ‘Adaptive and autonomous navigation in robot-based inspection’ is supervised by Matteo Fumigalli and is co-funded by Innovation Fund Denmark.

Rune Yding Brogaard has joined our Automation and Control group as a PhD student on 1 October 2019. Rune’s project ‘Adaptive and autonomous navigation in robot-based inspection’ is supervised by Ole Ravn and is fully funded by Force Technology, Brøndby.

Diana Maria Garza Agudelo has joined our Acoustic Technology group as a PhD student on 15 October 2019. Diana’s project ‘Highly absorbing metamaterials for broadband applications’ is supervised by Vicente T. Henriquez and is a joint alliance research project with KAIST, which is funded by DTU.

Javier Fernandez Alvarez has joined our Electromagnetic Systems group as a PhD student on 1 November 2019. Javier’s project ‘Probe-corrected phaseless near-field antenna measurements’ is supervised by Olav Breinbjerg and is co-funded by a DTU scholarship.

Chao Liu has joined our Electronics group as a PhD student on 1 December 2019. Chao’s project ‘Integrated energy conversion and control for smart and efficient electrolysis systems’ is supervised by Zhe Zhang and is co-funded by Innovation Fund Denmark.

Tatiana Gabderakhmanova has joined our CEE group as a postdoc (Islanded Energy Systems) on 1 December 2019.

Jonathan Binner Becktor has joined our Automation and Control group group as a PhD student on 1 December 2019. Jonathan’s project ‘Machine learningbased detection and categorization for robust autonomous ship perception’ is supervised by Lazaros Nalpantidis and is cofunded by Innovation Fund Denmark, Danish Maritime Fund, Orients Fund and Lauritzen Foundation.

Jan Martin Zepter has joined our CEE group as a PhD student on 1 December 2019. Jan’s project ‘Synergies of multi-energy systems in the provision of flexibility to islanded electricity networks’ is supervised by Mattia Marinelli and is cofunded by H2020, project INSULÆ.

Jan Engelhardt has joined our CEE group as a PhD student on 1 December 2019. Jan’s project ‘Coordinated control of stationary storage systems and electric vehicles fast charging in AC grid embedded DC grids’ is supervised by Mattia Marinelli and is co-funded by H2020, project INSULÆ.

Ilaria Sorrenti has joined our CEE group as a PhD student on 1 December 2019. Ilaria’s project ‘Optimal planning and operation of hybrid renewable energy systems’ is supervised by Qiuwei Wu and is funded by DTU and SDC (Sino-Danish Center, Beijing).

Markus Mogensen Henriksen has joined our Electronics group as a PhD student on 1 December 2019 2019. Markus’ project ‘IC design for switched capacitor power converters’ is supervised by Ivan Jørgensen and is co-funded by a DTU scholarship.

Nicolas Borrel-Jensen has joined our Acoustic Technology group as a PhD student on 1 December 2019 2019. Nicolas’ project ‘Accurate and fast auditory virtual reality implementation’ is supervised by Cheolho Jeong and is a joint alliance research project with TU Eindhoven, which is co-funded by DTU.

More new staff

Jairam Ramakrisnan has joined our CEE group (ERES/DER) as a research assistant on 15 October 2019.

Zeenat Hameed has joined our CEE group (ERES/DER) as a research assistant on 1 November 2019.

Xavier Martínes Beseler has joined our CEE group as a research assistant on 1 November 2019.

Chang Wang has joined our Electronics group as a research assistant on 1 November 2019.

Jochen Stiasny has joined our CEE group as a research assistant on 1 December 2019.

Tianzhi Fang from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) has joined our Electronics Group on 1 November 2019 as guest associate professor.

Colleagues leaving

Due to the ‘new’ DTU Employee IT system it is still difficult to retrieve completely adequate information about the resigned employees at the department. Therefore the information below may be incomplete.