AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHY

Nicola Bianchi took the Laurea Degree (as M.Sc. degree) in Electrical Engineering at the
University of Padova in 1991, obtaining the full marks and praise. The final project and thesis were
rewarded by AEI (Italian Electrical Association) with the award praise "Stefano e Flora Bodoni"
for young engineers in 1991. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995
at the same University.

He joined the Electric Drives Laboratory at the Department of Electric Engineering of the University
of Padova, as a Assitant Professor, in 1998, and since 2005, Nicola Bianchi is an Associate Professor at the same University. His teaching activity deals with the “Design Methods of Electrical Machines”, where he introduced the finite element analysis. He promoted Socrates-Erasmus links with some European Universities, such as Leeds, Glasgow, Helsinki, and Oviedo, and international links with some extra-European Universities, such as Seoul, Conception.

At the Electric Drive Laboratory, Nicola Bianchi's research activity is in the field of analysis of
the performance, determination of the parameters and development of design procedures for electrical motors, considering conventional and innovative machines, such as brushless motors, synchronous and switched reluctance motors, etc. Optimisation techniques have been adopted in the design procedures,
together with finite element analysis of the electromagnetic fields in the electrical machines.
Nicola Bianchi is authors of several papers in prestigious scientific journals, such as IEEE Transaction, IEE IET Proceeding, and presented in International Conference organized by IEEE, IEE, ICEM, etc. (about 200 technical papers).

Nicola Bianchi is recipient of five awards for best paper: first paper award at OPTIM 2000
international conference, third paper award at IAS 2006 Annual Meeting, best Transaction paper
award in IEEE Trans. on IA 2009 and second paper award at IEEE ECCE 2012 Conference,
first paper award at EVER 2013 Conference.

Since 1998, he is an IEEE Member, Electric Machines Committee member and Electric Drive
Committee member, with the duty of technical reviewer, session chair or session organizer.
Nicola Bianchi is also author of the book “Electrical Machine Analysis using Finite Elements”,
published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005, and co-author of the two books “Design,
Analysis, and Control of Interior PM Synchronous Machines” and “Theory and Design of Fractional-Slot
PM Machines”, tutorial course notes presented at IEEE IAS 2004 and IEEE IAS 2007 annual meeting,
respectively.

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