About us
Power electronics is our life
Who are we?
We, the RKL, are a dynamic team working on diverse tasks in the field of power electronics. Our expertise ranges from semiconductor physics to wind farm control.
We are: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Günter Eckel, Dr.-Ing. Jan Fuhrmann, Christian Neumann, Till-Mathis Plötz, Dr.-Ing. Michael Schütt
We like to take on new challenges to shape the future. From ships to trains, from wind farms to solar parks. We have the expertise.
Managing Director: Christian Neumann studied industrial engineering at the University of Rostock, where he graduated with an M.Sc. degree in 2016. Since November 2016, he has been working at the University of Rostock, at the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering. His research interests include control of power systems and converters as well as lifetime estimation of power semiconductors.
Managing Director: Till-Mathis Plötz, born in Lübeck, studied electrical engineering in Rostock and obtained his M.Sc. there in 2016. In his subsequent employment at the Chair of Power Electronics and Electrical Drives, he initially conducted research on multilevel topologies for inverters in electrical traction. Later, in addition to analytical lifetime design of power electronic systems, he also worked on load cycling tests with variable loss profiles.
Hans-Günter Eckel received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1989 and his doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1997. He had more than ten years of experience in the development of traction converters at Siemens, Nuremberg, when he moved to the University of Rostock in 2008 to take up a professorship in power electronics and electric drives. His current research interests include the application and device physics of high voltage power semiconductors and inverter technology for drives and energy conversion.
Michael Schütt received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, in 2011, 2014, and 2022, respectively. During his studies, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, he conducted research at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, and he worked for two years with the WEMPEC research group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. His areas of interest include control systems, digital signal processing, power semiconductors, and inverter technology for propulsion and power systems.
Jan Fuhrmann received the Master of Science degree in 2012 and the PhD degree in 2016 from the University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany. He joined the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Rostock in 2012, where he is currently a research group leader working on prototype development for inverter assemblies, gate driver design, FPGA and microcontroller programming, and measurement techniques for power semiconductors. He is also working on the short-circuit behavior of high-voltage IGBTs and diodes.
