Hervé Morel

Hervé MOREL, Born, June 7th, 1959 at Reims, France. **Coordinates:** INSA de Lyon - Laboratoire AMPERE, Bat. Léonard de Vinci 21 av. Jean Capelle 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex <Herve.Morel@insa-lyon.fr> **Degrees:** - 1994, Habilitation to conduct researches (Habilitation à diriger des recherche) delivered by the INSA de Lyon. - 1985, PhD at “Ecole Centrale de Lyon”, "Electrical conduction through grain boundaries in the polysilicon” - 1982, Engineer Degree from “Ecole Centrale de Lyon”, 1982, Ecully, France. **Professional Experience** - Since October2004, **Senior Researcher(DR) at the CNRS** ([http://www.cnrs.fr](http://www.cnrs.fr/)) , AMPERE lab.[1](#sdfootnote1sym), joint unit #5005. - <a name="page-title"></a> Since January 2015, Scientific Director of the Power Conversion Technology Program (timeshare 25 %) at Supergrid Institute (http://www.supergrid-institute.com) - January 2012 – April 2014, **Program Officer** (timeshare 50 %), for PROGELEC program (Sustainable Electricity Production and Management) at the ANR[2](#sdfootnote2sym), *The French National Research Agency.* - From October 1985, Researcher(CR) at the CNRS, CEGELY laboratory, joint unit #5005. (17 years) **Significant performance** **Experience** His research area includes power semiconductor device characterization and modeling, Power Electronic System Design &amp; Integration based on the use of Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductor Devices. The main application areas are the **high efficiency power electronics** (for the More Electric Aircraft applications and embedded systems) and the **high voltage power electronics** (particularly for supergrid applications). Multiphysics modeling of power semiconductor devices and power converters, particularly based on bond graphs. Tools and Methodologies for modeling and simulating power components and power converters (Modeling languages MAST et VHDL-AMS). He is involved in many research programs with industrial partners. Current scientific projectsinclude : wide band gap power electronics for embeddedand stationary applications and high voltage power electronicstransmissionand distribution of electricity. A new contribution, concerns meshed DC microgrids for Tertiary Building (C3µ/ANR project). **research activities** - 2011-2013, contribution to writing and starting of the project proposal “SuperGrid”[3](#sdfootnote3sym) in the Framework of the program "Investing for the Future", French Government. - 2013-2017, scientific coordinator for Ampère/INSA in the project GENOME/PREMICE (SiC Power Semiconductor Devices Robustness for aeronautic applications). - November 2007-September 2011, coordinator of the Power Electronic workpackage in the SEFORA program (Smart EMA For Operations in Rough Atmospheres, Aeronautics). - January 2006: coordinator of the “white” program ANR ([http://www.agence-nationale-](http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/)[recherche.fr](http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/)) CO-THT, for the very high temperature (400°C) power electronics. The different actions concern: design of a SiC integrated-circuit for driving SiC-JFET power devices, high temperature packaging and passivation, high temperature capacitors, inductors and transformers. - January 2003: leader of the French Working Group #104 on the “modeling and design of integrated power systems” - January 2003-2007: leader of the team, “integrated power system” at the CEGELY laboratory. (10 researchers, assistant-professors and professors + 15 PhD students). - 1992-1995: coordinator of the “design” French-group in the European Program Prochip-PROMETHEUS. - 1988-1992: developing PACTE simulator based on bond graph technique. **management activities** - January 2006-2011: head manager of the French Network of the CNRS, SEEDS[4](#sdfootnote4sym), in Electrical Engineering. SEEDS includes about 400 researchers, assistant-professors and professors. - January 2004, January 2006: manager of the French Network of the CNRS, ISP3D at the CNRS, #2084 (3D power system integration). ISP3D includes about 40 researchers, assistant-professors and professors. - January 2003: manager of the CEGELY laboratory at the INSA-Lyon. (14 researchers, assistant-professors and professors + 3 post-docs + 16 PhD students). - December 2002- December 2005: Member of the Scientific Council of the CNRS department of Communication and Information Science and Technology. - 2009-2011, Elected Member of the INSA Lyon Scientific Council. **Lectures** current - From 2014, HVDC, 4GE, Departement of electrical engineering, INSA Lyon and Univ. Lyon 1 (12 h/year). - From 2003 : Tutorial « Integration of Power Electronic Systems » PhD student training, Lyon, (2 h/year). - From 2014 : Tutorial « HVDC : Whyenergy transmission in direct current ? » PhD student training, Lyon, (2 h/year). past - 2008-2010: In charge of the Power Engineering Lecture - Master at INSA Lyon. - 1999-2006: In charge of Electricity lectures at the ITECH engineer school ([http://www.itech.fr](http://www.itech.fr/)) . - 1995-2015: In charge of lectures « modeling and numerical simulation of analog systems » at the master of electrical engineering, Lyon. **Expertises** - 2009-2011 expert for the European Commission in the framework of Clean-Sky (aeronautics, JTI) - 2009-2011 member of a scientific examination committee for the DGA - From 2011- member of the scientific council of the OMNT. - From 2012 – external reviewer for Clean-Sly/SGO - From 2003 – referee in IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics and some others journals and conferences. - Member of some scientific council of international conferences : SETIT, CISP, CoSyS-DC, MGE **Memberships** IEEE senior member, SEE senior member. **Scientific Tracking records** - 107 publications in international journals, 150 publications in international conferences, 37 PhD directions, 32 times in a PhD board of examiners (25 times as a referee). - Senior Member [IEEE](http://www.ieee.org/), Senior Member [SEE](http://web2.see.asso.fr/), - <a name="result_box"></a> Scientific Excellence Premium (Prime d'Excellence Scientifique) from the CNRS, [PES](http://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drh/carriere/cherch/pes.htm), for 2011-2014 period. - Citations: [http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=oRloFcUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en](http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=oRloFcUAAAAJ&hl=en) - « Special Award » , SAFRAN Power Electronic Center, SPEC’2009 « More Electric Aircraft » 18 - 19 november 2009 at Evry Genocentre. - Medal GENELEC 2010, Concordat GENELEC organized bythe Defense Department, 27 jan. 2011. **Exploitation &amp; Dissemination** PACTE is a multiphysic simulator base on the bond graph methodology. It development has started in 1988 in the framework of the European project PROMETEUS/PROCHIP. PACTE was appliedby the CNRS at the APP a French registration program agency, on August 31, 2006, thenon December 3, 2012. PACTE is diffused on CECILL Open Source License. [1](#sdfootnote1anc)<http://www.ampere-lab.fr/?lang=en> [2](#sdfootnote2anc)<http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/en/> [3](#sdfootnote3anc)[http://competitivite.gouv.fr/documents/commun/Politique\_des\_poles/Le\_grand\_emprunt/IEED/Supergrid.pdf](http://competitivite.gouv.fr/documents/commun/Politique_des_poles/Le_grand_emprunt/IEED/Supergrid.pdf) (In French language).