Frede Blobjerg

Born May 6, 1963 in Erlev (Denmark).

• After graduating from Aalborg University in 1987, Fred Blobjerg worked for more than a year in the Danish branch of the electrical company ABB.
• Since 1988, he studied and worked at the University of Aalborg, where he graduated from graduate school, in 1998 he received the title of professor in the field of power electronics and electric drive.
• In 2000, he taught at the University of Padua in Italy. At the same time, he led the wind turbine research program at the RISO Research Center (Danish National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy).
• In 2002, he taught at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.
• From 2006 to 2010, Dr. Blobjerg - Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine.
• From 2006 to 2012, he was the chief editor of publications on power electronics in the most respected association of specialists in the field of radio electronics, electrical engineering and hardware of computer systems and networks IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
• From 2005 to 2008, he was an Honored Lecturer of the IEEE Power Electronics Community, in 2010–2011 and in 2017–2018, an Honored Lecturer of the IEEE Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering Community.
• Dr. Blobierg is the author and co-author of more than 700 publications, including the classic for specialists book "Power Electronics Control". More than 650 of his articles are registered in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, all of them have been published in journals with ISI registration.
• The scientist is a member of the European Association of Power Electronics and Electric Drives, the IEEE Institute Electric Drive Community Industrial Electronics Committee, the Industrial Electric Power Converters Committee, and the IEEE Power Components and Instruments Committee. He is editor of IEEE's work in industrial electronics and electrical engineering, as well as power electronics, and editor of the Danish magazine Elteknic.
• He currently leads the Center of reliable power electronics at the University of Aalborg, which was founded in 2012 and is a leader in its field.

Dr. Blobierg's research interests include areas such as power electronics, static power converters, AC electric drives, power semiconductor device modeling, power quality, wind turbines, special power systems, and reliable and environmentally friendly inverters.

• In the 1990s, he made a number of inventions in the field of variable speed drive technology, and today they are routinely used in wind turbines and can efficiently generate electricity, saving tens of millions of dollars a year. Such drives are also used in industrial automation.
• In the tenths of this century, the scientist, together with his team, developed important solutions for the integration of photovoltaic installations and wind turbines, which are characterized by unstable energy supply to the electricity grid. These technologies are necessary for the reliable and stable operation of energy systems as a whole, and today the installed capacity of such renewable energy plants connected to the networks exceeds 1000 GW (for comparison, this is equivalent to the installed capacity of US power plants of all types).
• His merit, in particular, in the introduction of new conceptual methods to ensure the reliability of power electronics for renewable energy sources in order to reduce the cost of energy converters while increasing their reliability. He developed completely new design tools, and this work is carried out in very close cooperation with industrial enterprises.
• Dr. Blobierg has developed several energy-efficient control systems for asynchronous, induction jet motors, and permanent magnet motors. Innovations showed an increase in efficiency by 15-20% compared to standard control methods, and found application in commercial drives (Danfoss, Grundfos).
• Over the past decade, he has initiated two new research areas in which universities and industrial enterprises are interacting. The first is to increase the reliability of power electronics through the use of new design methods based on real physical models, which will enhance the fault tolerance of the equipment. The second direction is associated with an increase in the stability of the power system when interacting with it a large number of converters with power electronics, used primarily in solar and wind stations.
• Professor Blobierg's author of more than 1,100 journal articles and lecture texts at various international conferences on renewable energy and power electronics.
• Dr. Blobierg is the most cited author among scientists of all engineering disciplines in the world. So, as of March 2019, the Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science search engines cite the following data: 89000, 60,000, 39,000, respectively citations and links to his articles. Its Hirsch index according to the Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science systems is 140, 115 and 91, respectively.
• In 2019, she won the Global Energy Prize “For Outstanding Technical Contribution to the Development of an Intelligent Management System for the Wide Use of RES”.

• According to Microsoft Academic, Dr. Blobierg, in the number of publications and their citation, ranks first in the world of more than 1.5 million leading researchers - and those who work in all areas of technology, and not just in the field of electrical engineering. Times Higher Education has identified him as the most cited and successful researcher in the world in the field of technology.
• Thomson Reuters included Blobjerg in the list of “The Most Influential Scientific Minds of the World” in 2014-2017.
• The developer participated in more than fifty research projects of manufacturing companies. The results of his research were used by such corporations as ABB, Grundfos, Danfoss, Vestas, Game-sa, KK-Electronics, Fuji, Mitsubishi, Rockwell Automation, Sanken and many others.
• Thanks to his authority, he attracted more than $ 50 million only for research projects aimed at reducing the increased risk of instability in the power grid by connecting many energy converters of photovoltaic systems and wind generators to it.