Drazen Dujic is an Associate Professor and Head of the Power Electronics Laboratory at EPFL. He received the Dipl.Ing. and MSc degrees from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the PhD from Liverpool John Moores University, UK in 2008.
From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Assistant with the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Novi Sad. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Research Associate with Liverpool John Moores University. After that, he moved to industry and joined ABB Switzerland Ltd, where from 2009 to 2013, he was a Scientist and then Principal Scientist with ABB Corporate Research Center in Baden-Dättwil, and from 2013 to 2014 he was R&D Platform Manager with ABB Medium Voltage Drives in Turgi. He joined EPFL in 2014 as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021.
His research interests include the design and control of advanced high-power electronic systems and high-performance drives, predominantly for medium-voltage applications related to electrical energy generation, conversion and storage. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications and has filed 22 patents.
Prof. Dujic received the Istvan Nagy Award for his contribution to the research and development of high-power electronics technologies for medium-voltage applications. In 2018 he received the EPE Outstanding Service Award from the European Power Electronics and Drives Association and in 2014 the Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Power Electronics. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was a Chairman of the Swiss IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Chapter from 2018 to 2024 and currently serves as IEEE PELS R8 Chairman.