Thierry MEYNARD

Thierry A. Meynard graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electrotechnique, d’Electronique, d’Hydraulique de Toulouse in 1985, became a Doctor of the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France, in 1988 and was then an invited researcher at the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada, in 1989. He joined the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) as a full-time researcher in 1990, was Head of the Static Converter Group from 1994 to 2001. From 2010 to 2018 he has been associate director of the national program 3DPHI (3-Dimensional Power Hybrid Integration). He is now Directeur de Recherches CNRS at the LAPLACE(\*), but in parallel he has been also involved in several industry-related activities. Thierry A. Meynardhas been part-time consultant with Cirtem from 2000 to 2016. In 2016 he co-founded and became scientific advisor at the company Power Design Technologies that develops PowerForge, the software for design of 2- and multi-level power converters. And in January 2020, the consulting company ‘EIRL Thierry Meynard’ was created to help theoretical knowledge to become industrial products His main research interests are related to series and parallel multicell converters, magnetic components and the development of design tools for power electronics. T.A. Meynard is co-inventor of several topologies of multilevel converter used by ABB, Alstom, Cirtem, General Electric, Schneider Electric : ‘Flying capacitor’, ‘Stacked MultiCell’, ‘5LANPC’, ‘AC/AC chopper’, xPlexed choppers…. (\*) Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie, UMR CNRS n° 5213, B.P. 7122, 2, rue Camichel, 31071 Toulouse Cedex 7 FRANCE <http://power-conversion.enseeiht.fr/>