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Fernando Mancilla-David, PhD
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Fernando Mancilla-David is a full professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where he teaches and directs research in energy and power systems. He is a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering Department.
Prof. Mancilla-David received the BS degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile, in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, in 2002 and 2007, respectively.
He was a visiting scientist at ABB Corporate Research in Vasteras, Sweden in the summer of 2008, and has been a visiting professor at L’Ecole superieure d’electricite (Supelec), Paris, France, in the summers of 2009 and 2010; at the Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany in the summer of 2011; at the University of Roma 3, Rome, Italy in the summer of 2012; at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in the summer of 2013; at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil in the summer of 2014; and at ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia in the summer of 2016. During the 2016-1017 academic year, he was on sabbatical leave at PUC-Rio University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Research Interests
- Power system planning and operation
- Dynamics of converter-based power systems
- Sustainable energy systems
- Energy efficiency
- Renewable energy
- Smartgrids
- Microgrids
- Grid integration of distributed energy resources
- Converter topologies and control
- Characterization of photovoltaic systems
- Optimization problems
Honors and Awards
- IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Student Best Paper Award (with student H. Robles-Campos), given at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
- Fulbright Scholar, Fall 2016
- Brazilian Government CNPq Visiting Researcher Scholarship; partial funding to join PUC-Rio University as a visiting professor during the 2016-2017 academic year
- "Eduardo Neale-Silva" Memorial Scholarship; full funding to study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the 2000-2001 academic year
- "Federico Santa Maria" Award; Given to the top electrical engineer in the class of 1999 at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
- "Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile" (Chile’s Institute of Engineers) Award; Given to the top electrical engineer in the class of 1999, Santiago, Chile
