Liverpool John Moores University
Professor Emil Levi
- Telephone: +44 (0)151 231 2257
- Email: e.levi@ljmu.ac.uk
Professor Emil Levi (Fellow IEEE) is the founding member of the Electric Machines and Drives Research Group (EDM) at the Liverpool John Moores University, which was established upon his arrival in 1992. His previous employment was with the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, from 1982 until 1992. Prof. Levi received his Dipl. Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Novi Sad in 1982 and his MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. His research career spans 30 years of active involvement in various sub-areas of electric machines, variable-speed drives, electric energy generation and power electronics. He became Professor of Electric Machines and Drives in 2000.
Prof. Levi has published over 290 full conference and journal papers. This includes 85 journal papers in Science Citation Index source journals (over 50 in IEEE Transactions/IEE Proceedings/IET journals). He received the best paper award from the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics for the 2008 paper, Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society for 2009 for contributions to “modelling and control of induction machines”, and was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow in 2009 for contributions to “vector control of induction motor drives”.
Prof. Levi serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IET Electric Power Applications, as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. He was the Guest Editor of the special section on “Multiphase machines and drives” of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (May 2008 issue) and of the special issue on “Multi-phase and multi-motor drives” of the European Power Electronics and Drives (EPE) Journal (no. 3, 2004). He is also a long-standing member of the International Steering Committee of the bi-annual EPE conferences and the technical programme chair of the EPE-PEMC: ECCE Europe 2012 conference. Prof. Levi’s main research areas are related to modelling and high performance control of three-phase and multi-phase induction and synchronous machines, PWM control of two-level and multilevel inverters, and generation systems for wind electricity generation.
