Frede
BLAABJERG

Prof. Dr. Frede Blaabjerg is Professor in Power Electronics at Aalborg University, Denmark. He was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998 at AAU Energy. From 2017 he became a Villum Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania in 2017, Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Estonia in 2018 and Honorary Professor at University of Parma, Italy in 2025.

His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 900 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of ten monographs and editor of twenty books in power electronics and its applications eg. the series (4 volumes) Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems published by Academic Press/Elsevier.

In 2019-2020 he served as a President of IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has been Vice-President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. From 2020 he has been a Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Since 2020 he has been the chairman of the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy. He has been nominated in 2014-2021 by Thomson Reuters to be between the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world.