Oscar Lucia

Óscar Lucía is a Full Professor at the University of Zaragoza, an IEEE Fellow, and President of the Young Academy of Spain. He has built a solid teaching and research career in power electronics for domestic, industrial, and biomedical applications, with a strong focus on electrification, energy efficiency, and sustainability, achieving high impact scientific results, significant technology transfer to industry, and active participation in leading international scientific forums. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience in digital and power electronics, has supervised 8 Ph.D. theses and over 75 final degree and master projects, and has held several academic coordination positions in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications, including the coordination of the Doctoral Program in Electronic Engineering. He has carried out research stays in Germany and the USA.

Advisory and evaluation activities are a distinctive part of his profile, covering people, projects, and institutions. He regularly evaluates research proposals and scientific careers for national and international agencies, including the European Commission (European Innovation Council), the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), UKRI, FWO, ESF, the National Science Centre of Poland, and CONICET, as well as for certification bodies assessing industrial R&D such as EQA, DNV, and SGS. He has served on scientific committees for talent attraction programs, on the jury of Falling Walls Spain, and on IEEE Senior Member evaluation panels. He advises several government agencies and departments, and represents the Young Academy of Spain as a voting delegate at the International Science Council.

His research has resulted in more than 125 JCR journal publications (over 50 in Q1), 5 book chapters, and more than 250 conference papers, with over 10,000 citations and an h index of 41 (WoS, Scopus) and 46 (Google Scholar). He is a member of the research team of an ERC project on high frequency power electronics. His collaboration with industry has produced more than 75 patent families in commercial exploitation, with over 150 international extensions, through more than 40 competitive projects and over 70 research contracts with major companies such as BSH Electrodomésticos España, Daimler, Panasonic, Lear, Bosch Power Tools, VoltMed, Pendulum, CNRS, and AngioDynamics, with an aggregate budget exceeding 17 million euros. Since May 2025 he has directed the TDG Ibernavitas Chair on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. His career has been recognized with four CNEAI evaluation periods, three in research and one in transfer, the maximum possible. He serves or has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (Society News Editor), IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society.

Dr. Lucía has received the Agustín de Betancourt y Molina Young Researchers Award (2021) from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE Rudolf Chope Research and Development Award (2024), the Aragón Investiga Ramón y Cajal Award, and a BBVA Foundation Leonardo Grant (2021). Other recognitions include the extraordinary awards for his degree (2006) and doctorate (2010), the BSH Universidad de Zaragoza awards for Industrial Innovation (2009) and Innovation in Business (2018), the IEEE APEC Outstanding Presentation Award (2011), the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine Best Paper Award (2018), the SAMCA Chair Multidisciplinary Innovation Award (2021), the IEEE CPE Powereng Best Paper Award (2023), and the PCIM Best Presentation Award (2026). He is coauthor of the most cited 2017 paper in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and of the most cited article in the field of induction heating. His research group (GEPM) has been repeatedly recognized by Clarivate as a global leader in applied electronics for household appliances, he has been distinguished as a Highly Ranked Scholar in induction heating, and he is regularly listed in the Stanford ranking of the top 2% most influential researchers worldwide.

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