Pierluigi Tenca

Electrical Technologies GE Global Research Center

Pierluigi Tenca is currently working as Senior Research Engineer at GE Global Research Center (GRC), Munich, Germany on High Power Electronics and Motor Drives topics. He received the M.Sc. in Signal and Communication Electronics, as well as the Ph.D. in High Power Electronics from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1996 and 2000. He spent part of his Ph.D. in the Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Eng., Univ. of Bath, U.K. From 2000 to 2003 he was R&D Engineer in Siemens Transportation Systems, Erlangen, Germany working on Converters for High Power Locomotives. From 2003 to 2005 he was Post-Doc Researcher with Prof. Thomas Lipo at WEMPEC, Univ. WI Madison, USA. From 2005 to 2008, he worked in Ansaldo Sistemi lndustriali on the joint development, commissioning and field testing of 35MW modular MV motor drive clusters with GE Oil &Gas and GRC. From 2008 to 2013, he worked in ABB Corporate Research Center, Västeras, Sweden on motors identification and control, metrology techniques and, mainly, modular multilevel topologies for HVDC Transmission. He received two IEEE Paper Awards, authored or coauthored more than 40 papers and Patent Applications, some already granted. He gave tutorials at different international conferences and was Technical Program Chair of the ECCE-USA 2014 Conference, as well as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. On Industry Applications.