Alfred Rufer Editor & Author

Alfred Rufer (1951) received the M.S. degree from  the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1976.  In 1978 he joined ABB where he was involved in the fields of high power electronics and control.  In 1993 he became an Assistant Professor at EPFL.  Since 1996, he has been a full professor and head of the industrial Electronics Laboratory EPFL.  He has authored or coauthored more than 200 publications on power electronics and applications, and he holds several patents.  Alfred Rufer's research activities focus on one hand on power converters as modular multilevel converters in asymmetric or hybrid technologies.  Another important field initiated by Alfred Rufer is dedicated to energy storage, where many applications have been studied.  Other new developments have recently been presented, for example a low aging, easy to recycle, hybrid energy storage device based on compressed air.  In 2006, Alfred Rufer was elected to the IEEE Fellow grade.