Maria Canete
Market Development
Manager,
CIRCE Technology Center
Tanya Kirilova
Gachovska
Power Engineer,
MDA
Kasra Latifi Fard
Power Electronic
Design Engineer,
NanoStructured Coatings
Jerome Gregoire
eDrive Leader and Principal
Power Electronics Engineer,
Ascendance Flight
Technologies
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About Our Experts
Maria is an electronics engineer with a
Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering.
She has been working at CIRCE Technology
Center since 2011, and during this time, has
contributed to technology development as
a development engineer, project manager,
head of electronic system group, and now
market development manager. Her main
focus is the design and development
of power inverters, EV conductive and
inductive chargers, and embedded digital
signal processing for power converters.
Kasra is a power electronic engineer at
companies that focus on high voltage and
high current AC/DC and DC/DC converters.
He has about 8 years of experience in
switching power supplies.
Tanya holds an M.Eng. and two Ph.D.
degrees in Electrical Engineering and
has had an extensive career in academia.
She worked for Solantro Semiconductor
before moving to MDA. Dr. Gachovska
authored or coauthored numerous papers,
presentations, and books, and holds a
world patent in Pulsed Electric Fields. She
is PELS Ottawa chair, PEDCC standard
chair, chair for two IEEE Standards, and a
senior IEEE member.
Jerome is an IET-chartered engineer
working as an eDrive leader and principal
power electronics engineer at Ascendance
Flight Technologies. In this role, Jerome
leads the design effort for the hybrid
eVTOL eDrives, the propulsion system key
element. He is a subject matter expert in
powertrain and power electronics and is
skilled in high voltage power electronics,
semi-conductors (SiC, MOSGETS, IGBT)
cooling, and technical team leading.
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