Biography

Corneliu Marinescu (M’07) was born in Brasov, Romania, on May 26, 1948. He received the Dipl.Ing. degree in electromechanical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brasov, Brasov, in 1971 and the Ph.D. degree from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, in 1991. He is currently a Full Professor as PhD supervizor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computers Science, Transilvania University of Brasov, where he is also the Head of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines (POWERELMA) research laboratory. He is the author or coauthor of more than 220 journal/conference papers in his research fields. His areas of interests include power electronics applied to renewable energy sources, RES, and storage, RES based Microgrids, EV charging stations based on RES.