Our Team
Faculty
Dr. Georgios Kampitsis
Associate Professor & Principal Investigator
Dr. Georgios Kampitsis is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece (since December 2022). His research centers on the optimum utilization of wide band gap (WBG) devices, primarily Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN), to develop power electronics with increased efficiency and power density.
From 2020 to 2022, he was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, where he worked on a radical redesign of power conversion stages in distributed energy resources (DER) to enable their large-scale adoption in future smart grids. Previously, he held a Fellowship co-funded by Greece and the EU at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), focusing on efficient power distribution in data centers. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, developing and controlling high–switching-frequency, high–power-density converters using GaN transistors. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA in 2016, where his work involved designing high-efficiency inverters and DC/DC converters with SiC power devices for photovoltaic (PV) applications and wireless power transfer systems (WPTS).
His research output includes 19 high-impact journal papers (including one in Nature and 12 in IEEE Transactions) and 18 international conference papers, with more than 1,000 citations.
Beyond academia, he has served as a scientific consultant for start-ups in Switzerland (e.g., Corintis, Hexisense). In 2018, he also led the EPFL electronics design team as part of the SpaceX Hyperloop competition, contributing on a voluntary basis.
Researchers
Theofilos Moraitis
PhD Researcher
Theofilos Moraitis received the Integrated Master’s Diploma of Electrical Engineering in 2024 with first class honors, from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece For his Master’s Thesis, he focused on beyond-safe operating area (SoA) device characterization. Since his graduation, Theofilos joined the Electromechanical Energy Conversion Laboratory as a PhD candidate and a teaching assistant, instructing laboratory classes for the course of Electric Machines and Power Electronics offered by the school’s curriculum. His current research interests reside in bidirectional conducting & blocking devices, for their utilization in ultra-compact and power dense multi-level converters for applications in renewable energy sources.
Panagiotis Adamopoulos
PhD Researcher
Panagiotis Adamopoulos received his Integrated Master’s Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, in 2025. His master’s thesis focused on the design of bidirectional DC–DC converters for hybrid energy storage systems in electric vehicles, integrating batteries and supercapacitors. Following his graduation, he commenced his Ph.D. studies at the Electromechanical Energy Conversion Laboratory, where he also serves as a teaching assistant, conducting laboratory classes in Electric Machines and Power Electronics. His research interests include the design of multilevel power converter topologies and control circuits, as well as the thermoelectrical characterization of bidirectional switching devices.
Sotiris Fillipas
PhD Researcher
Sotirios Filippas is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant at the Laboratory of Electromechanical Energy Conversion, University of Patras. He received his Integrated Master’s Diploma from the same institution, graduating with first class honors. His research interests include the analog design for monolithically integrated power converters, gate driver design for high-power density DC/AC and DC/DC converters and high-power density 48-to-PoL power converters. His thesis focused on the design and implementation of a high-power-density 48-to-12V converter for automotive and data centers applications.