Prof. Antonios G. Kladas Prof. Antonios G. Kladas (IEEE SM’10) was born in Greece, in 1959. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1982 and the DEA and Ph.D degrees in 1983 and 1987 respectively from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6), France. He served as Associate Assistant in the University of Pierre and Marie Curie from 1984 to 1989. During the period 1991 to 1996 he joined the Public Power Corporation of Greece (PPC SA), where he was engaged in the System Studies Department. Since 1996 he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where he is now Professor. His research activities include electric machine design and modelling as well as power system and industrial drive analysis under steady state and dynamic conditions. His main contributions concern finite element based techniques for numerical modelling for coupled electromagnetic thermal phenomena as well as simultaneous hybrid macroscopic and microscopic representation of advanced materials and hybrid analytic numerical models for the analysis of electrical machines with applications to electric traction and renewable generation. He has participated in 30 national and international projects serving as coordinator in 9 of them concerning electric vehicles as well as more electric ship and more electric aircraft initiatives. He is member of the International Steering Committee of the International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM) and the IEEE Conference on Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (IEEE CEFC). He has authored more than 100 scientific papers and his work has received more than 1000 citations.
The emerging transportation electrification is addressed through technological issues of electric machine technology. A viewpoint based on research activities of the presenter on more/all electric vehicle, ship and aircraft initiatives following train electrification is presented. The methodologies developed, the main innovative technological achievements attained and the current research trends are explained. The expected important changes in electric energy sector piloted by environmental benefits are described.