Mircea Popescu, PhD, IEEE Fellow

Principal Product Specialist Ansys - Motor Design Ltd

Mircea Popescu is Principal Product Specialist with Ansys UK. He received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, in 1984 and 1999, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in electrical machines from Aalto University, Espoo, Finland in 2004.  
He has more than 35 years of engineering experience. Earlier in his career, he was with Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University), Finland, SPEED Lab at University of Glasgow, U.K. and Motor Design Ltd, U.K. He has published more than 150 peer reviewed papers and his publications have received three IEEE best paper awards.  
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Popescu is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IET Electric and Power Applications journal. He served as an Officer of the IEEE Industry Application Society Electrical Machines Committee 2010 – 2017 and Prominent Lecturer for IAS Region 8, 2014-2016.