PCIM Chairman receives Power Electronics Award

The prestigious IEEE Gerald Kliman Innovator Award 2011 is going to the PCIM Advisory Board chairman Prof. Leo Lorenz from Infineon Technologies. The award may be presented annually to an individual for meritorious contributions to the advancement of power conversion technologies trough innovations and their application to industry. The technical field for this award includes, but is not limited to Electrical Machines, Electrical Drives, Power Electronic Systems and Power Electronic Devices. This Award is named in honor of Dr. Gerald Kliman, in Memory of his many contributions and innovations to these technical areas. The awardee is judged to be outstanding in the multidisciplinary field of power electronics. Based on his scientific background along with his record on application oriented achievements Dr. Lorenz pioneered power electronic system development from the conventional bipolar devices to power conversion systems operating at high switching frequencies to achieve high efficiency ratings and ultra high power densities. With his numerous invited speeches and key note presentations at international conferences, his university lectures for Master & PhD students and expert seminars multinational operations he initiated and supervised significant research directions and set important milestones in the whole field of power electronics. He shaped power electronics system integration to a great extent and pushed for the energy saving mindset.