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Based on a recent ScholarGPS evaluation, analyzing research work over the past five years (up to 2024), Dr. Konstantinos Gyftakis, Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), has been ranked 3rd internationally (out of 7,693 researchers) in the field of Induction Motors. This distinction means that he belongs to the top 0.05% of the best researchers in this field. He is also ranked 24th internationally (out of 11,123 researchers) in the field of Electric Machines. It is worth noting that induction motors are the most widely used electric motors in the world, consuming approximately half of the world's produced electric power, and are at the heart of every industrial production process.
The full list of distinguished researchers of 2024 in the field of induction motors is available on the relevant page of ScholarGPS, and is also provided in a snapshot in an image of this article.
Short Bio
Konstantinos N. Gyftakis received his Diploma from the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece (2010) in the Sector of Electric Power Systems. He then received his Ph.D from the same Dept. (2015) entitled: "Electromagnetic fault analysis in induction motors and development of new methods for their diagnosis". He worked as a Post Doctoral Research Assistant in the School of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK (2014-2015), under the FUTURE Electric Vehicles project, while the goal of his research was the understanding of the insulation degradation mechanisms in traction electric motors. Moreover, he worked as a Lecturer on Electrical Engineering, Coventry University, UK (2015-2019). Finally, he worked as a Lecturer on Electrical Machines, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK (2019-2022).
He has been an elected International Steering Committee Member of the conference: IEEE Symposium on Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (IEEE SDEMPED) since 2020 and simultaneously was elected its Secretary. Furthermore, he serves as an Associate Editor for the scientific journals IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and has served as Guest Editor in other journals as well. Additionally, he is an IEEE Senior Member and member of the following societies: IEEE IAS, IEEE IES και IEEE PELS. He regularly serves as invited Chair in IEEE Conferences and also annually organises Special Sessions in IEEE Conferences. At the same time, he serves as regular reviewer of scientific papers for a plethora of scientific journals and conferences in the field of electrical machines. Finally, he is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
During his academic career, he has been invited as speaker or invited researcher by various Universities: a) Universita Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, b) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal, c) Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, d) City University of London, UK, e) Korea University, S. Korea, f) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, g) Politechnika Krakowska, Poland.
His publications record includes more than 150 papers in International scientific journals and conferences and a chapter for the book: "Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance of Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives", IET, 2018.
He has successfully supervised 4 Ph.D. thesis as first supervisor and 1 Ph.D. thesis as second supervisor. Moreover, he has successfully supervised an MRes thesis as second supervisor and more than 50 individual undergraduate and postgraduate projects as first supervisor.
