Power & Energy (PE) and Power Electronics (PEL) Chapter
About us:
Welcome to the joint IEEE Chapter of Power & Energy and Power Electronics. Our ambition is to provide support to all IEEE PE/PEL members in Sweden, by interesting seminars, webinars, membership development support, and other useful tools and information for your academic or industry work life.
Recent News:
Congratulations to Our Award Winners!
We are thrilled to announce and celebrate the winners of our prestigious awards for the year! Each of these individuals has demonstrated remarkable talent, dedication, and excellence in their respective fields.
- Congratulations to Oscar Lennerhag, the recipient of the Outstanding Young Engineer Award, 2024. “For exceptional development of technical expertise in complex subjects related to power quality and integration of power electronics, combined with demonstrated leadership skills and rapid professional growth in international context.”
- We are proud to honor Marcio Magalhães de Oliveira as the winner of the Outstanding Senior Engineer Award, 2024. “For outstanding contributions to the field of FACTS devices, demonstrated through papers, patents and active involvement in standards and working groups, and for developing specialist competence recognized at global level in his long career working for a global manufacturer, a transmission system operator and an advisory company.”
- Congratulations to Lina Bertling Tjernberg, the winner of the Outstanding Volunteer Award, 2024. “For outstanding contributions in revitalizing the Chapter after a long period of inactivity, and serving on the board for a decade while also raising the Chapter’s visibility at global level through active involvement in the Society, and bringing the first IEEE Milestone to Sweden in 2015.”
- We are delighted to celebrate Mohammad Kharezy, as the recipient of the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2023-24. “The thesis deals with a timely topic and contains a unique combination of theoretical analysis, design calculations, practical implementation, and evaluation of scale model. The thesis shows that Mohammad Kharezy has deep knowledge in both scientific and practical engineering methods and that he can present his results in an efficient and clear way.”
- Congratulations to Ellen Larsson and Carl Carlsson, the winners of the Best M.Sc. Thesis Award, 2024. “The thesis is relevant for the industry, technically sound and consistent. The results are of outstanding quality and the thesis is well written, clear and effective in its presentation.”
Once again, congratulations to all our award winners! Your achievements are a testament to your hard work, passion, and dedication. We look forward to seeing your continued success and contributions to your respective fields.
Selected Past Events:
Mar. 5th, 2025: Annual Meeting 2025 of the Joint PES/PELS Chapter! Keynote Speaker: Hans Björklund, Corporate Executive Engineer, Hitachi Energy, “HVDC, a Swedish invention about to change the power grids forever. Some reflections from 50 years at the forefront of power transmission technology”
The first week of December is DEI Week – launched for first time by IEEE PES Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Join us at KTH Royal Institute of Technology or online, for this workshop arranged and moderated by Prof. Qianwen Xu, vice-chair of Sweden’s Jt Chapter of IEEE Power & Energy Society and IEEE Power Electronics Society. Listen to presentations by Prof. Qing-Chang Zhong from Illinois Institute of Technology and Dr. Vineetha Ravindran from Scania Group and ask your questions in the following panel. More information.
Sep. 4th, 2024: IEEE Seminar on “Key Research Aspects of Green Hydrogen Production” by Prof Antti Kosonen, Lappeenranta University of Technology.
Jun. 18th, 2024: IEEE Distinguished Lecture on “Control and Protection of Multi-Terminal DC Grids” by Prof Maryam Saeedifard, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Feb. 21st, 2024: Annual Meeting, IEEE PES/PELS Chapter, Sweden. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alireza Nami, Research Centre Manager, Hitachi Energy
Sep. 29th, 2023: IEEE Seminar on Future energy system with focus on grids in distribution and wind power by Dr. Fredrik Carlsson, R&D portfolio manager, Distribution, Vattenfall and Viktorija Dudjak, Senior R&D Engineer, Vattenfall.
Sep. 1st, 2023: CAREER PATHS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR IN TRANSITION
The event explored the importance of diversity in the energy transition by bringing speakers with different backgrounds and experience together to share their journey and learnings. Agenda and presentations:
- Welcome and introduction to IEEE PES/PELS Sweden by Dr. Qianwen Xu, Vice Chair
- Introduction to IEEE Women in Power Sweden by Dr. Marina Oluic, Chair
- Keynote speech by Sonja Berlijn, Business Development Manager at DNV, and professor at KTH
- Keynote speech by Ambra Sannino, Vice President R&D at Vattenfall, and Chair of IEEE PES/PELS, Sweden
Mar. 16th, 2023: Annual Meeting, IEEE PES/PELS Chapter, Sweden. Keynote Speaker: Prof. Xiongfei Wang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, “Powering the Future: Grid-Forming Converter Technology and Implementation“
Jan. 27th, 2023: WBG Power Center Seminar on “Efficiently Paralleling GaN-Transistors for High-Current and High-Frequency Applications Using a Butterfly Layout” by Dr. Martin Wattenberg, Infineon Technologies.
Nov. 18th, 2022: IEEE Seminar on “Integration of Distributed Energy Resources & Electric Transportation in Distribution Systems” by Dr. Julio Romero Agüero, Vice President, Strategy & Business Innovation at Quanta Technology.
Mar. 28th, 2022: Annual Meeting IEEE PES/PELS Sweden Chapter, including Keynote Speech “Fundamentals of HVDC LCC and Chile´s Kimal Lo Aguirre HVDC project” by Dr. Gabriel Olguin.
Dec. 9th, 2021: IEEE on-line seminar “Integration of Inverter-Based Resources, an example of ERCOT” by Dr. Julia Matevosyan.
Nov. 4th, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “High Power Density Converter Designs – New Circuit Topologies, Control Techniques, and Packaging to Achieve Extreme Size Reductions in Applications Ranging from Datacenter Power Delivery to Electric Aircrafts.” by Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, UC Berkeley.
Sep. 23rd, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “Electrical vehicles for sustainable developments with a European perspective”, by Professor Lina Bertling Tjernberg.
May 26th, 2021: IEEE Seminar on “Microgrids: Swedish and International Perspectives” by invited experts from academia and industry.
Apr. 23rd, 2021: IEEE Lunch Webinar: “The role of inertia and fast frequency control in the Nordic power system” by Dr. Robert Eriksson, Svenska kraftnät.
For more information about upcoming or past events please see events posted at http://r8.ieee.org/sweden/events/.
The current board of the PE/PEL Chapter
Chair: Qianwen Xu, qianwenx@kth.se
Vice-chair: Marina Oluic,
Treasurer & Webmaster: Daniel Johannesson, daniel.johannesson@hitachienergy.com
Secretary: Fran Marquez, fran.marquez@iea.lth.se,
Membership development: Johanna Rosenlind, johanna.rosenlind@foi.se
Student Representative: Chinmay
IEEE Power & Energy (PE) and Power Electronics (PEL) joint Chapter, Sweden
Last update: 2025-03-28