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🔍 Research

Heaklig is currently a candidate to the Degree of Doctor of Engineering in Wide-Bandgap Power Electronics. As such, he is part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Mobility Technologies, and also associated with the Wide-Bandgap Stream of the CDT. His work is actively being supervised by Professor Phil MawbyLink opens in a new window and Dr Jose Ortiz-GonzalezLink opens in a new window, both being widely renowned experts in Power Electronics.

His research concerns advanced packaging of wide-bandgap power devices for enhanced integration, improved converter efficiency and reliability.

My News 🔊

Ongoing: Extreme Fast-Charging for Electric Vehicles Based on Solid State Transformers [Project]

🙋🏽‍♂️ About me

Extremely proud to be from the Dominican Republic 🌴 —yet very pleased and happy to be based in the United Kingdom.

Heaklig obtained his BEng (Hons) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra - PUCMMLink opens in a new window (2018), and his MSc in Electrical Power (Distinction) from Newcastle UniversityLink opens in a new window (2019). The latter studies were sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and TechnologyLink opens in a new window of his home country, recognising him as a very talented professional and future leader, with huge potential in the fields of applied research.

He natively speaks Spanish, while very competent in English, not to mention survival Italian skills.

Fun Fact: If you Google my name, everything you'll find would either be me or something to do with me... Pretty unique, huh? P.S. you'd need to put the exact search entry "Heaklig" (incl. the quotation marks).

Interests 📖

SiC Power Applications

Grid-tied Converters

Advanced Gate-Driving

Device Packaging

MMC Topologies

Electric Vehicles!