University of Innsbruck
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petar J. Grbović received the Dipl. Ing. (B. Sc.) and the Magister degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1999 and 2005, and the Doctor (Ph.D) degree from the Laboratoire ’Électrotechnique et d’Électronique de Puissance de Lille, l’Ecole Centrale de Lille, France in 2010.
From November 2000 to June 2001, he was a Consulting Engineer with CESET Italy (a division of Emerson Appliance Motors Europe). From March 2003 to April 2005, he was with the R&D Department, PDL Electronics, Ltd., Napier, New Zealand. Since April 2005 until July 2010, he was working with Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe, Pacy-Sur-Eure, France, as Power Electronics Group Expert. Since September 2010 until August 2011, he was with General Electric Global Research, Munich, Germany. Since September 2011 until September 2018, he was with HUAWEI Technologies, Europe Energy Competence Centre in Munich/Nuremberg, Germany, where he worked as a Senior Expert in the area of power electronics and power conversion. In March 2016 he was appointed to position of the scientific committee of Centre of Power Electronics and Drives, C-PED Lab., Roma TRE University, Italy. In June 2018 he was appointed to position of Full Professor at Innsbruck Power Electronics Laboratory (the i-PEL), the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
The focus of his research is on application of advanced energy storage devices, active gate driving for high power IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs, power converter topologies, advanced power semiconductor devices and control of power converters and semiconductor switches.
Prof. Grbović published 30 IEEE journal papers, 63 IEEE conference papers, 33 IEEE tutorials and a book “Ultra-capacitors in power Conversion Systems: Analysis, Modelling and Design in Theory and Practice”. He has 17 US & EP patents granted and 9 international patent applications pending.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM CT