Shahin Asgari

  Shahin Asgari was born in Iran in 1987.He received the M.S. degree from the Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, in 2015 in electrical engineering. He worked for two years as the head of the Electrical Machines and Transformers Test and Repair Engineering at the Bistoon Power Plant in Kermanshah, Iran, after spending four years as a researcher at the Electrical Machines and Transformers Research Laboratory (EMTRL) at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Electric Drives and Machines Institute at the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria. He is also with the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Brushless Drives for Pump and Fan Applications. His areas of interest in research include auxiliary drive and traction motor design, analysis, and optimization for automotive applications.

Andreas Binder

  Andreas Binder, Senior Member IEEE, Member VDE, IET, VDI, EPE, received the degrees Dipl.-Ing. (diploma) and Dr. techn. (PhD) for Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna/Austria, in 1981 and 1988, respectively. From 1981 to 1983 he worked at ELIN-Union AG, Vienna, on large synchronous generator design. From 1983 to 1989 he joined the Institute of Electrical Machines and Drives, Technical University, Vienna (TU Wien), as researcher. From 1989 to 1997 he rejoined industry, leading groups for developing DC and inverter-fed AC motors and drives, at Siemens AG, Bad Neustadt and later at Erlangen, Germany. Since 1994 he is lecturer (habilitation) at University of Technology, Vienna/Austria, and received in 1997 the ETG-Literature Award of the German Assoc. of Electrical Engineers, VDE. Since October 1997, he is Head of the Institute of Electrical Energy Conversion, Darmstadt University of Technology, as a full professor, being responsible for teaching and research for electrical machines, actuators, drives, electrical power engineering, e-mobility and railway systems, co-operating with a team of external lecturers from industry. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 scientific publications, contributor of two scientific books, wrote two books on electrical machinery and holds several patents. He received Dr. h.c. from University of Technology Bucharest in 2007 and is the recipient of the Medal of Honour of the ETG/VDE 2009 for outstanding contributions to VDE. Research topics are Hi-Speed-Motors, Permanent magnet-E-Machines, bearing currents, drive technologies for hybrid and electric cars, drive systems for electric railways, magnetic suspension and magnetic bearings, generator systems e.g. for renewable energies. He lectures since 16 years at the VDE technical college program and gives technical lectures at scientific conferences and at companies. He is member and led from to 1999 until 2006 the VDE/ETG Technical Group A1 “Elektrische Maschinen, Antriebe, Mechatronik”, was from 2004 until 2008 advisor (Fachkollegiat) for the Section „Electrical Engineering“ at DFG/Bonn (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), lectured at TU Wien from 1994 to 2015 and at TU Graz from 2001 until 2008, and led the DFG-financed research group „Parasitic HF effects in electrical machines and drives“ in the years 2006 to 2012. He is Technical Chair of SPEEDAM conference. His technical lecture ppt slides are free for down-load at the institute´s home page.

Andreas Carlsson

  Andreas Carlsson (Associate Member IEEE) was born in Stenungsund, Bohuslän, Sweden in 1997. He received his BSc and MSc in electrical engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Västra Götaland, Sweden, 2019 & 2021 where he also held a role as a project engineer and later manager in the Formula Student racing team. He specializes in electric machines design and computational electromagnetics and has since 2021 been working as a CAE engineer at Polestar.

Bernd Cebulski

  Bernd Cebulski studied at the University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. He got his MS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1993. From 1993 to 1996, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Technical University in Chemnitz. In 1996, he was a Visiting Scholar at WEMPEC, Madison Wisconsin USA. Since 2000, he has been working at IAV GmbH, Chemnitz as Manager for Electric Motor Design. His main technical topics are the design and control of electric drives and power electronics.

Mustafa Duyar

  Mustafa Duyar is Manager, Agile Units at FEV where he has been employed since 2014. He obtained BSc. and MSc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from METU. He started his professional career at Arcelik Global where he was responsible for NVH and tribology of compressors. Upon receiving his MSc. degree, he joined Ricardo plc. and contributed to the success of the company as Software Engineer, Team Leader and Product Manager. Over 23 years of professional life, he worked in powertrain development projects for global automotive OEM`s and Suppliers and gave trainings to CAE engineers on simulation driven product development and use of mechanical dynamics software. His technical background includes powertrain mechanical dynamics, NVH and tribology.

Zoltan Nadudvari

  Zoltan Nadudvari has finished his studies at the Technical University of Budapest as an electrical engineer, and his major was electrical machines and drive system. He has started to work for Rolls-Royce Electrical (former Siemens eAircraft) in 2016. At his department they are working on electrical drive trains for electric and hybrid electric aircrafts. His role is the electromagnetic design of motors and generators.

Shafigh Nategh

  Shafigh Nategh (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in 1984. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electric power engineering from Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electric power engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2013. He was first-ranked in both the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees. In 2009, he was with the Department of Electrical Energy Conversion, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, from 2012 to 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Lead Designer of PM machines for marine segment with Rolls-Royce Group, Trondheim, Norway. He continued his career as a Senior Designer of traction motors and Global Product Engineer for railway applications with Bombardier Transportation, Västerås, Sweden, from 2015 to 2018. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Guest Researcher with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He worked as an R&D Senior Engineer at E-mobility Department, ABB AB, Vasteras, Sweden, 2018-2020. He is currently a Principal Engineer at Electric Driveline Department, Volvo Cars, Göteborg, Sweden, as well as Adjunct Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. He serves also as Secretary of Electrical Machines Technical Committee, IES-IEEE. His research interests include different aspects of electromagnetic, thermal, and insulation design of traction motors in marine, aerospace, railway, and e-mobility applications.

Vilmos Paiss

  Vilmos Paiss has a master Degree of mechanical engineering from Technical University of Budapest, where he specialized in applied mechanics and mechatronics. He has more than 15 years experiences in automotive industry in structure analysis, kinematic and dynamic simulation methods applied for combustion engines and designing of NVH related mechanical elements in the vehicle. His research activity focused on non-linear numerical analysis regarding continuum mechanics with FEM and non-commercial developed meshless algorithms. He started his career at Bosch in 2014, where he turned his focus to electrical machine related topics, particularly electromagnetic layout designing and FE analysis.

Guillermo Regidor

  Guillermo Regidor was born in Spain and live in Valencia. He has studied electronic and automatic engineering and has a master's degree in mechatronics engineering. During his studies he was a member of the Hyperloop UPV team that competed in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in Los Angeles. In 2020 he joined Zeleros as Power Electronics and Magnetics Engineer and he is in charge of the design and validation of the electromagnetic components of the Hyperloop vehicle and infrastructure.

Ahmed Shoeb

  Ahmed Shoeb received his master degree specializing in Finite element method simulations. Currently, he is working as Electromagnetic simulation engineer at Powersys SARL since April 2019. Responsible for the supervision and the support of customer projects using JMAG software developed by JSOL corporation in Japan. In addition, he is in charge of customer trainings, webinars and the conduction of simulation studies.

Alexander Stepuk

  Alex Stepuk, PhD in physics, joined EVR Motors in 2018 where he worked on various multiphysics platforms. From 2020 he is mainly focused on electromagnetic and thermal simulations of PMSM with variable topologies. In previous years he was involved in various projects applying multiphysics simulation for Kharkov Technical University (Ukraine) Jaguar and Land Rover (UK) and Wins AS (Norway).

Yves Thiolere

  Yves Thioliere is a reconizable as an Expert of JMAG software with more than 10 years experience in electric machine design using the FE method with JMAG. He has given numerous training courses and is also daily supporting JMAG users in electric machine design and other areas. Latest Co-publication: A Comparison Between Random and Hairpin Winding in E-mobility Applications; IECON conference 2020.

Joel Wenger

  Joel Wenger, 30 years of age, is currently working for Drivetek AG as a Simulation and E-Motor Engineer. His background is in automotive engineering, and he got his master’s degree in engineering from Bern UAS under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andrea Vezzini. As a part-time employee in Dr. Vezzini’s laboratory, he started using JMAG Designer around 2017 and has used the tool ever since. For his thesis “Development and Optimization of a Highly Compact, Dynamic Linear Drive”, he extensively used JMAG Designer and its optimization features to design and optimize a linear actuator for a very specific medical appliance. In 2019, he started his position at Drivetek AG, with a main focus on electrical machine design for high-performance applications. During this period, he implemented a lot of changes to the design process, moving from manual optimization to fully automated, “in-the-loop” machine and inverter co-optimization. His programming skills, particularly in Python, come in very handy when setting up this rather complex design process, consisting of JMAG Designer working in conjunction with a lot of specialized scripting tools. In 2021, he started a part-time master’s program in the field of data science, with a focus on machine learning and AI. This allows him to further push the optimization process and allows him to develop even more advanced machine and system optimization tools in the near future.

Takashi Yamada

  Takashi Yamada, PhD, the CTO of JMAG division at JSOL Corporation, has been head of JMAG project since he joined the company in 1987. He started his professional career as a developer of FEM code and has been involved in numerous product development projects in industries. He is now in the role of product design of JMAG as well as the international business operation. Besides the company business, he has been working for society of IEEJ (Institution of Electrical Engineering of Japan) and serving as a member of Investigation Committee on Electromagnetic Field Analysis for Rotating Machine.

Didier Zefack

  Didier Zefack has more than 7 years of experiences as JMAG Simulation & Support Engineer at POWERSYS Solutions. He supported many companies and universities on different simulation projects. He received two Professional master’s degrees, first, in Computational Engineering for FEA simulations of phenomena governed by the fluid & solid mechanics. And secondly in Mechatronic for synergistic integration of mechanical engineering, electronics and intelligent computer control in design and manufacture of products and processes. In addition to JMAG, he works also on Multiphysics CFD tools to provide a complete solution for electric motor design and optimization.

Tianjie Zou

  Tianjie Zou was born in Hubei, China, in 1991. He received the B.Sc. degree in 2013 and Ph.D. degree in 2018, both in electrical engineering, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He joined the University of Nottingham, U.K., in 2018, as a research fellow within the Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Group. In 2020, he was awarded the tenure-track Nottingham Research Fellowship and started his independent research career. His main research interests include design, analysis, and intelligent control of electric machines, with special attention paid on advanced winding-integration technology in high-speed, high-power PM and reluctance machines for electrified transportation. As a researcher, he has served as machine design lead in Innovative UK, Driving the Electric Revolution, and European Horizon projects. Has published more than 40 international conference and journal papers, and has secured over £150k research funding as principal investigator. Dr. Zou will transit to academic role as assistant professor in University of Nottingham from Jan 2023.