Research profile

Frede Blaabjerg was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998 at AAU Energy. From 2017 to 2023 he was a Villum Investigator and now he is co-PI of the Danish Pioneer Center for Accelerating P2X Materials Discovery (CAPeX). He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania in 2017, Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Estonia in 2018, Aalto University, Finland in 2026 and Honorary Professor at University of Parma, Italy in 2025.

His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 900 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of ten monographs and editor of twenty books in power electronics and its applications eg. the series (4 volumes) Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems published by Academic Press/Elsevier.

He has received 49 IEEE Prize Paper Awards (one of them acknowledged as Time of Time paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics - doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.833453), the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019 and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. In 2023 he received the Hitachi Energy Award, in 2021 the EAWE Scientific Award and in 2020 the EPE Outstanding Achievement Award. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He has been  Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011 as well as 2017 to 2018. In 2019-2020 he served as a President of IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has been Vice-President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. From 2020 to 2026 he was the chairman of the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy. Since 2020 he has been a Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters as well as he is foreign member of the Romanian Academy (2021), Romania and the Estonian Academy of Sciences (2026), Estonia 

He has been nominated in 2014-2021 by Thomson Reuters to be between the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world.