The research done by Luis Martínez Salamero from the URV’s Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering has focused on the control of power converters applied to space flight and renewable energy

The URV professor of systems and automatic engineering, Luis Martínez Salamero, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier in a ceremony held on the afternoon of 18 June with Bruno Estibals, researcher at the Laboratory of analysis and system architecture of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (LAAS-CNRS), as sponsor.

Luis Martínez Salamero holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia and has been a lecturer at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili since 1995, where he directed the Industrial Automation and Electronics Research Group between 1998 and 2018, and was the head of the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering. His research has focused on the control of power converters applied to space flight and renewable energies. More recently, he has taken an interest in the problems of energy distribution in hybrid and electric vehicles, as well as the conditioning of renewable energy sources.

He has been a visiting lecturer at Duke University, Durham (United States) and at the CNRS Systems Architecture and Analysis Laboratory (France). He has been a guest editor for numerous specialised publications in the field of the control/command of power converters; between 2005 and 2008 he was president of the Spanish section of the power electronics and industrial electronics societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and between 2008 and 2011the national coordinator in the field of electrical, electronic and computer sciences of the National Evaluation and Prospective Agency (ANEP) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Luis Martínez Salamero was awarded his honorary degree in the same ceremony as four other scientists: Elías Campo, a lecturer in pathological anatomy at the University of Barcelona and director of IDIBAPS; Gregory Ciottone, a lecturer in emergency medicine and a specialist in disaster medicine at Harvard University (United States); Jacques Côté, a lecturer in molecular biology, medical biochemistry and pathology at the Université Laval and director of oncology research at the Quebec University Hospital (Canada); and Tsuyoshi Kawai, a lecturer in Chemistry at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology ( Japan).