Prof. em. Dr. Herbert Stemmler

Herbert Stemmler has been full Professor for power electronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich since 1991. He was head of the Power Electronics and Electrometrology Laboratory. He retired April 2, 2000.

He was born on March 11, 1935 in Speyer (Germany). Electrotechnical studies in the field of automation at the Technical University in Darmstadt (Germany). From 1961 up to 1991 he continuously worked with Brown, Boveri & Co., respectively ASEA Brown Bovery, in Baden (Switzerland), at first as development engineer, after 1971 as head of the Department for development, engineering, test, commissioning and trouble-shooting of power electronic systems. In 1987 he was appointed vice-president of this Department. Working-fields: converter and inverter locomotives, all kinds of large a.c.-drives, reactive power compensators, HVDC-transmissions, low power electronics, standardised and tailor-made electronic control units. Parallel to that, he graduated in 1971 with a doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Aachen (Germany).

Projects in the fields of power electronics (traction, drives, Flexible AC Transmission Systems [FACTS], Solar energy systems, uninterruptable power supply, Matrix Converter). Professor Stemmler is foundation-member of the "Executive Council" of the European Power Electronics and Drives Association (EPE).