Power Electronic Converters – Dynamics and Control in Conventional and Renewable Energy Applications

Teuvo Suntio is Professor in Power Electronics at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. He has been also Adjunct Professor in Control Engineering at the Aalto University (TKK) in 2001-2011, and in Power Electronics at the University of Oulu since 2004. He has also served 20 years in power electronics industry as a design engineer and an R&D manager prior to starting the academic career in 1998. He has authored or co-authored over 200 international conference and journal articles, supervised close to 100 MSc students as well as 18 PhD students during the nineteen years in academy. Tuomas Messo is Assistant Professor in Power Electronics at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. His current research aims to identify the source of harmonic resonance problems reported in grid-connected power electronic systems through dynamic modeling and mitigating the problems by shaping the inverter impedance. His teaching activities include basic power electronic courses and advanced courses, which concentrate on DC-DC converter design and dynamic analysis of three-phase DC-AC converters. Joonas Puukko is with ABB Oy High Power Drives in Helsinki, Finland. Previously he was with ABB Oy Solar Inverters and ABB Inc. United States Corporate Research. He obtained his PhD from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, for a work on dynamics of grid-connected three-phase converters. He has expertise in hardware and control system design in various power electronics applications ranging from few tens of watts to hundreds of kilowatts.