1976, MSc, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. 1978, with ABB, involved in power electronics and control. With EPFL: 1993, Assistant Professor; 1996, full Professor and Head, Industrial Electronics Laboratory: research focus includes power converters where several solutions and applications of multilevel converters have been studied, especially asymmetric or hybrid topologies; also research on supercapacitive energy storage and a low aging easy to recycle hybrid energy storage device based on compressed air. Authored or co-authored several publications on power electronics and applications, and holds several patents. 2006, Fellow, IEEE.