Tomislav Dragicevic
Professor
Department of Wind and Energy Systems
WIND PES PTX
Elektrovej
Building 325 Room 127
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Danmark
Tomislav Dragičević is a Full Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), IEEE Fellow, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2023 & 2024), and co-founder of PHLIT, a DTU spin-out commercializing grid services through intelligent power converters. Following Plexar Energy's majority acquisition of PHLIT in 2026, he serves as Chief Science Advisor to Plexar. At DTU, he founded and leads the Smart Converter Lab and coordinates DRIVE-IT, a long-term industry-anchored research initiative in collaboration with Danfoss Drives. His research spans power electronic converters and drives, digitalization, flexibility, and applied machine learning. He focuses on developing advanced control and online learning methods that enable secure, reliable, and scalable deployment of converter-dominated systems across sectors such as EV charging, electrolyzers, water networks, data centres, and industrial drives. He has authored over 400 scientific publications (including 200+ journal papers), contributed to multiple book chapters and a monograph, and filed several patents. His work has been cited over 34,000 times (h-index: 98) according to Google Scholar. He has secured competitive funding exceeding €20 million, including several national and international research projects. He is principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant ARTEFACT, which develops uncertainty-aware online learning in power converters to unlock grid flexibility from motor-driven applications, and of the DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader project MAGIC. His research group has pioneered several experimental breakthroughs, including the first self-learning diagnostics framework for power converters and the first edge-deployed neural network imitators for model predictive control. His teaching portfolio includes B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. level courses in electrical engineering, industrial IoT, predictive control, and scientific writing. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. students as main advisor (15 graduates in total) and 6 postdocs, several of whom now hold academic or senior industry positions. He also routinely mentors MSc, BSc, and guest researchers and contributes to international summer schools and invited tutorials. He chaired the Danish IEEE Joint Chapter of the Power Electronics, Industry Applications, and Industrial Electronics Societies (2020-2025), and currently serves as Associate Editor for several leading IEEE journals. His recognitions include the Nagamori Award (2026), the IEEE IES Early Career Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, the Robert Mayer Energy Conservation Award, and the Končar Award for Best Industrial Ph.D. Thesis.