University of Patras
Dr. Georgios Kampitsis is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece (since December 2022). His research centers on the optimum utilization of wide band gap (WBG) devices, primarily Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN), to develop power electronics with increased efficiency and power density.
Since 2023, Dr. Kampitsis has been leading the ERC Starting Grant (StG) ENRICH, which pioneers integrated multilevel power converter concepts using GaN technologies for sustainable energy and electrified transport applications.
From 2020 to 2022, he was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, where he worked on a radical redesign of power conversion stages in distributed energy resources (DER) to enable their large-scale adoption in future smart grids. Previously, he held a Fellowship co-funded by Greece and the EU at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), focusing on efficient power distribution in data centers. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, developing and controlling high–switching-frequency, high–power-density converters using GaN transistors. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA in 2016, where his work involved designing high-efficiency inverters and DC/DC converters with SiC power devices for photovoltaic (PV) applications and wireless power transfer systems (WPTS).
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