Pericle Zanchetta
Staff
Biography
Pericle Zanchetta M 00, SM 15, F 19,
received his MEng degree in Electronic Engineering and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Bari (Italy) in 1993 and 1997 respectively. In 1998 he became Assistant Professor of Power Electronics at the same University. In 2001 he became lecturer in the PEMC research group at the University of Nottingham – UK, where he became Professor in Control and Power Electronics in 2013. From 2022 he is full professor of Power Electronics at the University of Pavia, Italy and part time professor at the University of Nottingham. He has published over 400 peer reviewed scientific papers. Professor Zanchetta is Vice-President of the IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) 2025-2026, member of the board of directors of the IEEE IAS and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications since 2020. He was IEEE-IAS Education Department chair 2022-2024. He was vice-chair and Chair of the IEEE IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department (2018-2021) and secretary, vice chair and Chair of the IEEE IAS Industrial Power Converters Committee (2012-2017). His research interests include control and optimization of power converters and drives, Matrix and multilevel converters.