Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

2004
Appointed full professor for Power Electronics at Leibniz Universität Hannover

1993 - 2004
Siemens AG at Erlangen and Nürnberg as R&D engineer, manager of converter control development for large drives, and product manager for medium-voltage converters

1992
IEEE IAS IPCC 2nd Prize Paper Award

1992
Doctor in Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen

1989 - 1990
Research Associate an der University of Wisconsin at Madison

1989
Herbert Kind Award of the ETG (VDE)

1987 - 1992
Research associate at the Institute for Power Electronics and Electric Drives (ISEA) at RWTH Aachen

1982 - 1987
Studies and graduation (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen/Germany

Associate Editor of the journal “IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics”

Member of the International Steering Committee in the EPE Association

Member of the Editorial Board of the journals "European Transactions of Electrical Power" (published by VDE) and "Electrical Engineering" (published by Springer)

until 2017
Role as a Head of Department at Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology (IEE) and at Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research (IFAM)

until 2016
Chairman of the Leibniz Research Centre Energy 2050 (LiFE 2050) at Leibniz Universität Hannover

until 2016
Board Member of Energy Research Centre Lower Saxony (EFZN)

until 2015
Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Leibniz Universität Hannover

until 2012
Chairman of the Division Q1 Power Electronics of the Power Engineering Society ETG (Technical Society of the VDE)

until 2012
Chairman of IEEE IAS/IES/PELS Joint German Chapter

VDE (ETG)
IEEE (IAS, PELS)
EPE Association