Biography:

Dr. Jorge Garcia,

Full professor, University of Oviedo

Dr. Jorge García got his MSc (2000) and PhD( 2003) at the University of Oviedo, in Spain, where he's curently a Full Professor of Electronics Technology, at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Electronics and Systems. He's been a visiting lecturer at the Federal University of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil (2012), at the Universitá di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy (2013), and at the University of Nottingham, UK (2016).

In 2010 he co-founded the research group LEMUR, http://lemur.dieecs.com/. The scope of his research work is in power electronic converters, including topologies, control systems and modeling, stage integration and design of magnetic components. He's co-author of more than 60 papers in international peer-reviewed journal indexed in ISI-JCR, and of more than 120 papers in international conferences related to Electronic Engineering.

He's associate editor of the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Ed. Elsevier, since May 2017. He's been the Editor-In-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Electric and Electronic Power Engineering, Ed. Elsevier.

He's member of the IEEE since 2000, currently as Senior Member (since 2012), belonging to the IAS, PELS, VTC and the Education Society.

He co-founded of the company PXR Solutions (2020), a start-up company in IoT, Sensors, RV and Computer vision for industrial applications and maintenance an remote operation of wind farms an PV plants. Since 2021 he is Head for the Transfer and Business Chairs Area, in the Vice-Rectorate for Transfer and Business Relations of the University of Oviedo.

Abstract:

Title: Research Activities, Academic Training and Knowledge Transfer from the LEMUR Team at The University of Oviedo.

Summary: LEMUR stands for "Laboratory for Electrical Energy Management Unified Research". The presentation firstly contextualizes and discusses the main research lines of the LEMUR  group, established in 2012 at the electrical Engineering Department of the University of Oviedo, in Spain. 

The group staff is comprised of more than 20 people including 7 professors and several Postdoc researchers and MSc and BSc students. The group skills include Power Systems and Electrical Networks Modeling and Analysis, Power Converters Based Technologies for Grid Integration and Storage Systems.

Besides these research lines, also the main research projects and technology transfer contracts with companies will be discussed. In addition, the examples of how some of the research lines have been transferred to spin-off companies, in which researchers and alumni from the group are participating, will be mentioned.

The research collaborations with companies, institutions, together with collaborations with other academic institutions worldwide, will also be linked up to academic activities of the members of the research group. These activities will focus mainly on the coordination and management of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree on Sustainable Transportation and Power Systems (STEPS) and the EECPS Master Degree.