IEM-UEM organised a Distinguished Foreign Lecture by Prof. Alfred Rufer Switzerland on May 30 th, 2020 1:00 PM IST .
Prof Alfred Rufer received a Master’s degree from the *Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne *(EPFL), Switzerland** . He was a research assistant with EPFL’s Chair of Industrial Electronics (Prof. H. Bühler).
Alfred Rufer joined ABB, Turgi, *Switzerland* , where he worked in the fields of power electronics and control for high-power variable frequency converters for drives. Rufer has participated in several development teams on new applications of power electronics, like renewable energies. In 1985, he was a Group Leader for power
electronics development at ABB. After that he became he was elected as a Full
Professor and Head of the Industrial Electronics Laboratory at EPFL.
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