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International Steering Committee
Professor Jan Sykulski
Conference Chairman
University of Southampton, UK
Professor Jan Sykulski (FIEEE, FIET, FInstP, FBCS) has for many years led a large research team at the University of Southampton, UK. Between 1995 and 2000 he held a prestigious chair sponsored jointly by the Royal Academy of Engineering and distribution company Southern Electric plc. He is currently Professor of Applied Electromagnetics in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS). The School is the leading university department of its kind in the UK, with an international reputation for multidisciplinary research across computer science, electronics and electrical engineering, providing world-leading education in a vibrant research environment at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Professor Sykulski’s personal contribution is in the areas of power applications of high temperature superconductivity (e.g. HTS transformers and generators/motors), modelling of superconducting materials, advances in simulation of coupled field systems (electromagnetic, circuits and motion), development of fundamental methods of computational electromagnetics, in particular dual energy approach, and new concepts in design and optimisation of electromechanical devices for practical applications in industrial environment. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications.
He is a founding member and past chair of the Professional Network Electromagnetics of IET, a founding Secretary/Treasurer/Editor of International Compumag Society, a Visiting Professor at universities in Canada, France, Italy, Poland and China, Editor of COMPEL and a member of International Steering Committees of many major international conferences. He is a member of the Council of the National Conference of University Professors and member of the Research Policy Group of the IET. He is Fellow of IEEE, IET, Institute of Physics and British Computer Society, and has an honorary title of Professor awarded by the President of Poland.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/jks
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