Vladimir

Power electronics is a field of electrical engineering, which has attracted the attention of scientists, researchers and experts for over 125 years. The early beginnings can be found in the 18th century, and researches in the 19th century lead to the establishment of solid foundations for its appearance. Inventions and patented solutions at the time, as well as their wide application, led to the need to convert different forms of electrical energy from one to another. Nikola Tesla made a significant contribution to this with his inventions and practical solutions. Energy-efficient solutions could not be found based on the principle of electromagnetic induction, which was then dominant in energy. Only with the application of thermo-ionic effects at the beginning of the 20th century, i.e. electronic solutions of the tube technology at that time, did a breakthrough occur in this area, which has since been called Power Electronics. The beginning is linked to the research of Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861-1921), who in 1900 discovered that the arc in mercury vapor under low pressure passes current only in one direction and in 1902 patented the first rectifier - Mercury Arc Rectifier. The emergence of semiconductor technology (germanium, then silicon transistors) in the middle of the 20th century, especially the four-layer thyristor, gave momentum to this field and enabled it to become a dominant factor in industry and household. The latest solutions at the beginning of the 21st century based on wide band gap components (GaN, SiC) enabled their more economical application in the field of electricity generation (especially for renewable energy sources), electricity transmission, as well as for the development of electric drive in transport (primarily electric cars) and energy storage.

Biography:

Prof. Vladimir A. Katic is a retired full professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences from Novi Sad (Serbia), honorary professor at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara (Romania), honorary doctor of Stefan cel Mare University in Suceava (Romania) and IEEE Life Senior Member. He graduated from the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the University of Novi Sad in 1978, and received his master's and doctorate degrees from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Belgrade in 1981 and 1991, respectively.

He is the holder or collaborator of 15 international and 50 domestic scientific projects or studies. He is the author or co-author of over 600 scientific papers, and has been cited nearly 2800 times with an h-index of 24 (Google Scholar). He is the editor of three international scientific journals and has been a guest editor several times. He is also a member of the editorial board of several international and national journals, as well as the scientific program boards of the most important scientific conferences in the field. For many years he has been the chairman (since 1995) of the renowned international conference International Symposium on Power Electronics - Ee.

He is the president or a member of the executive boards of the scientific associations of the Society for Power Electronics of Serbia from Novi Sad, ETRAN Association from Belgrade, and CIRED Serbia from Novi Sad, EPE Association from Brussels, PEMC Council from Budapest, IEEE S&M Section from Belgrade. He is a member of the board of directors of Matica Srpska from Novi Sad.

His areas of scientific and professional interest are power electronics, power quality, renewable sources of power and electric vehicles, and chargers.

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