Vincenzo Cirimele of University of Bologna

Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT) on highways is a promising yet still unproven solution for enabling continuous powering of electric vehicles. While several pilot projects exist in controlled or urban environments, no real highway-scale implementation has been demonstrated. This presentation reviews current technologies, international case studies, and the limitations of conductive solutions, highlighting the potential advantages of wireless systems. Key open challenges are examined, including power-frequency dependent component selection, compensation and coil topologies, component placement, and installation procedures. The talk would emphasize the strong interdisciplinary effort required to make highway DWPT a viable, scalable infrastructure.

Biography:

Vincenzo Cirimele was born in Belvedere Marittimo, Italy on October 7, 1987. In 2013, he received the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy where he held the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy "G. Ferraris" from November 2017 to September 2020.

To date, he is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "G. Marconi" of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
From September 2020 to November 2021, he was a technical responsible for the R&D and Innovation group of the company Movyon of Autostrade per l'Italia group where he supervised projects related to energy sustainability and development of electric mobility in the highway context.
Since May 2019 he has been among the founders of the start-up Enermove s.r.l, which deals with wireless charging systems for electric vehicles in the industrial field. From July 2024 he collaborates with the company ENRX IPT as a scientific and technical consultant.
From 2014 to 2017 he was a PhD student at the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Torino and, from 2015 to 2017, he was a PhD student at the École Electrical, Optical, Bio-Physics and Engineering working at the CNRS laboratory of Génie électrique et électronique de Paris (GeePs) in France. In February 2017, he received the PhD degree in Electronics Engineering (\textit{with honors}) from the Politecnico di Torino and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Université Paris-Saclay.
His research interests mainly concern technologies for electric mobility. He has been working on inductive power transmission systems for electric vehicle charging, also dealing with aspects related to the protection of people from exposure to industrial frequency magnetic fields, electromagnetic modeling, and power conversion.

In August 2023 he was elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE.
He is currently Deputy Editor for the journal IET Power Electronics and Associate Editor for the journals Wireless Power Transfer and IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.

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