Grids of the Future - HVDC Technology and Power Quality Solutions

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Dr. Frans Dijkhuizen, Hitachi's Corporate Research Fellow with expertise in power electronics and HVDC systems, will visit Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Hardin Valley Campus, where he will offer a technical talk on a topic to be decided. The event will be virtual, and a Teams link will be provided to the registered participants the evening before the event.

Dr. Frans Dijkhuizen is a Research Fellow at Hitachi Energy Research with 25 years industrial experience in research and development of high-power electronic converters for HVDC and power quality solutions. Dr. Dijkhuizen earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e, the Netherlands. He joined ABB Corporate Research in Västerås Sweden in 2001 in the field of high-power electronics for research and development of grid connected converter technology for HVDC Light and Power Quality solutions, and since 2019 at Hitachi Energy Research. In his global role he is responsible for the long-term research and strategy in the field of high-power electronics for dc applications.

Dr. Dijkhuizen holds numerous patents in the field and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, is vice-chair of IEEE PELS TC8 2025, vice-chair of the IEEE PELS International Technology Roadmap of High-Power Electronics for Modern Energy Grids (ITRG). He is also a working group member since 2016 first with the European standardization group CENELEC that went into the IEC TC115-WG15 for developing a global standard for HVDC Grids Systems.