Tutorial: Feb. 28 AM-PM, 2027

2nd floor. International meeting room (Kokusai Kaigi Shitu).

70min / Lecture, incl. Q&A. The order of the presentations may change.

 Tutorial 1 

Prof. Nando Kaminski
University of Bremen, Germany

Nando Kaminski (Senior Member IEEE) studied electrical engineering at the University of Bremen and finished with the Dipl. Ing. degree in 1994. Afterwards until 1997, he was researcher and PhD-candidate at the former Daimler-Benz research institute in Frankfurt (Main), Germany. He worked on Silicon-Carbide power devices and received the Dr. Ing. degree from University of Bremen in 2001.

From 1998 until 2008 Nando Kaminski was with ABB Semiconductors in Lenzburg, Switzerland. He worked on IGBTs, IGCTs, diodes, packaging, and reliability. He held various positions as project, team, laboratory, and customer support manager in R&D and quality before he finally became department manager and head of the IGBT module factory.

Since 2008 he has been full professor for power semiconductor devices at University of Bremen and one of two directors of the Institute for Electrical Drives, Power Electronics, and Devices (IALB). His research interests include alternative semiconductor materials, material basics, device concepts, simulation, packaging, reliability, influence of parasitics, and EMC.

Nando Kaminski’s chair is Centre of Competence of the ECPE (European Center for Power Electronics e.V., Nuremberg, Germany), whilst he is technical program chairman of the CIPS, member of the advisory board of the PCIM and of the international program committee of the ISPS. From 2012 to 2017 he served a regular term as member of the technical program committee of the ISPSD and was short course chairman of the ISPSD’16 in Prague, technical program committee chairman of the ISPSD’20, Vienna (virtual), and general chairman of the ISPSD’24 in Bremen.

 Tutorial

Prof. Yoshikazu Takahashi
Tohoku University, Japan

 Tutorial 3 

Prof. Thomas Ebel
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

 Tutorial 4 

Dr. Lars Boettcher
Fraunhofer IZM, Germany

 Tutorial 5 

Prof. Weijia Zhang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

(IWIPP Welcome reception will be held in the evening of Feb.28 at Event Hall.)