Tobias Geyer

Tobias Geyer received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. Subsequently, he spent three years at GE Global Research, Munich, Germany, and another three years at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. In 2012, he joined ABB’s Corporate Research Centre, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland, where he is currently a Senior Principal Scientist for power conversion control. In 2017, he received a Habilitation degree in power electronics from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, and was appointed as an extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa from 2017 to 2020.

He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, 30 patent applications, and the book “Model predictive control of high power converters and industrial drives” (Wiley, 2016). He teaches a regular course on model predictive control at ETH Zurich. His research interests include model predictive control, medium-voltage drives and utility-scale power converters.

Tobias received the 2014 Third Best Paper Award of the Transactions on Industry Applications and two Prize Paper Awards at conferences. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Transactions on Power Electronics.