Université Libre de Bruxelles

It is one of the largest and best research universities in Belgium with a student population of 35000 and almost 2000 PhD in progress distributed among 22 Doctoral schools. ULB has considerable experience with European funding programmes: around 285 projects financed by both the 7th European Framework Programme and Horizon 2020, including 41 ERC grants and 84 MSCA grants.

The teaching and research activity of the Electrical Energy Group (headed by Johan Gyselinck) of the BEAMS department of the ULB concerns electrical drives, numerical electromagnetics, power electronics, decentralised electricity production and renewable energy (wind turbine systems and photovoltaics).

The research groups of Electromechanics (headed by Prof. Paavo Rasilo) and Power Electronics (Prof. Petros Karamanakos) at the Electrical Engineering Unit give education and conduct research in the fields of electromagnetic energy conversion and power electronic systems, such as power converters and electric drives. Their research areas cover numerical electromagnetics, magnetic material modelling, electrical machines, control of electric drives and electromagnetic energy harvesting, as well as control methods for power electronic systems (grid-connected converters and electrical drives), and real-time implementation.