Prof. em. Dr. Hans Glavitsch

Prof. em. Dr.  Hans Glavitsch

Prof. em. Dr. Hans Glavitsch

Professor Emeritus at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

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Hans Glavitsch was Full Professor at the Electric Power Transmission and High Voltage Technology Laboratory at the ETH Zurich, beginning in 1978. He retired in April 1999.



Prof. Glavitsch was born on February 2, 1934 and is from Austria. He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University in Graz and received a Master of Science from Stanford University, CA. After working at the IBM Development Laboratory in San Jose, CA, he was employed at Brown Boveri Cie, Baden AG, starting in 1961. From 1970 to 1978 he headed a research group at the Brown Boveri Research Center and during this time received his doctorate at Aachen. In 1978 he instituted a research group for electric power transmission and systems control at the ETH Zurich. The focus of his research is on the analysis, modeling and optimization of electric transmission networks, computer application in systems control, and the development of concepts to increase the transmission capacity of transmission lines.



From 1976 to 1982 Prof. Glavitsch was president of the CIGRE Study Committee "System Operation and Control". From 1991 to 1993 he was a member of scientific council of Electricite de France. In 1991 he was awarded the Fellow degree of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), and in 1983 he received the Médaille Trasenster de l'Association des Ingenieurs sortis de l'Université de Liège. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Power Systems Computation Conference.

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