Research profile

Biography

Amir Bahman (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor at the Center of Reliable Power Electronics (CORPE), Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests include electro-thermo-mechanical modeling, packaging, thermal management, and reliability of power electronics. Dr. Bahman received an M.Sc. from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2011, and a Ph.D. from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2015 in energy technology. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, USA, in 2014. Moreover, he was with Danfoss Silicon Power, Germany in 2014 as the Thermal Design Engineer. Dr. Bahman is a senior member of the IEEE and currently serves as a Guest Editor of Nature npj Power Electronics and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and Elsevier Microelectronics Reliability.

• Vice Leader of Reliability of Power Electronic Components Research Group (REPEC)

• Coordinator and Lab Manager of the Danish Power Electronics Reliability Test Facilities (X-Power)

Positions

• Associate Professor in Reliable Power Electronics, AAU Energy, Aalborg University, 2020 – present
• Assistant Professor in Reliable Power Electronics, AAU Energy, Aalborg University, 2017 – 2020
• Postdoctoral Fellow in Reliable Power Electronics, AAU Energy, Aalborg University, 2015 – 2017
• Ph.D. Fellow in Reliable Power Electronics, AAU Energy, Aalborg University, 2012 – 2015
• Visiting Scholar, Mixed-Signal Computer-Aided Design Research Lab, University of Arkansas, USA, 2014
• Thermal Engineer, Danfoss Silicon Power, Germany, 2014

Research interests

• Reliability and lifetime prognostics of power electronic systems and components
• WBG devices and applications in power electronics converters
• Physics-of-failure and fatigue analysis of power electronic components
• Multiphysics modeling of power electronic systems
• CFD and thermal management of power electronics