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	Current position: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj
	Mail address: Bariţiu str. 26-28, RO-400027 CLUJ, Romania
	Telephone/fax: (+40)-264-401-827 / (+40)-264-593-117
	E-mail: daniel.fodorean@mae.utcluj.ro, daniel.fodorean@ieee.org

Date and place of birth: 22^nd of November 1977, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

Education:

• Electrical Engineer from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (2001)
• M.Sc. degree in Variable Speed Electrical Drives and System Integration specialization from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (2001-2002)
• Full time Ph.D. student (2001 - 2005): bilateral international research collaboration between the Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (supervisor: professor I.A. Viorel) and the Electrical Engineering Department, Technological University of Belfort-Montbéliard, France (supervisor: professor Abdellatif Miraoui).
• Thesis Title: Design and Prototype Realization of a Double Excited Synchronous Machine: Electric Vehicle Propulsion Application.
  Date / place / language of the public presentation: 12-July-2005 / Technological University of Belfort-Montbéliard, France / French.
  

Professional experience:

• Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et Recherche to l'Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, Département Génie Electrique de Systèmes et Commandes, from September 2003 - August 2004 and from September 2005 - August 2006.
• Assistant Lecturer to the Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, from September 2006.

Scholarships:

• Technological University of Belfort-Montbéliard, France, December 2001 - May 2002 and January 2003 - June 2003.

Participations at scientific meetings:

• 16th International Conference on Electrical Machines - ICEM '04, Kracow-Poland, 5-8 Sep. 2004.

Research interests:

• Magnetic field computation of electrical machines: analytical approach (equivalent reluctances magnetic circuit, vector potential method, finite element method)
• Electrical drives: control of electrical machine (scalar, vector control - DTC-FOC, PWM, open and close loop control techniques)
• Design and numerical modeling of the electrical machines (PMs and hybrid excited synchronous machines, with different rotor configuration, DC motors, induction cage motor, transverse flux motor, transformer etc.)
• Special interests: modeling of iron loss in PMs machines, thermal and mechanical aspects for hybrid excited synchronous machine, flux weakening and high speed operation, optimization of electrical machines (gradient method, surface response method)
  
  

Publications: 20 (see detailed list):

• Textbooks and books (1)
• In refereed journals and periodicals (3)
• In refereed proceedings of international conferences (12)
• In University annals (2)
• In non-refereed conference proceedings (2)
  

Special skills:

• Programming environments: Matlab/SIMULINK, Mathcad.
• Finite Element CAD: Flux2D/3D.
• General CAD: AutoCAD
  

Languages: English, French

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