Miroslav Chomát

Miroslav Chomát (Czech Republic) obtained his M.Sc. degree in electrical power engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1994. Currently, he is the head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electrophysics at the Institute of Thermomechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and deputy director of the same Institute. Since 2015, he has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. During 1999 – 2000, he worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an honorary research fellow. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications, edited two scientific book publications, and was responsible for a number of national research projects. His research interests include electric machines, power electronics, renewable energy sources, and Smart Grids. For the last few years, he has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Acta Technica CSAV. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the IET, vice chairman of the IET Czech Republic Network, and Chartered Engineer (CEng.) of the Engineering Council, UK.