Dr. Lukas Graber

Biography

Lukas Graber received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich in 2002 and 2009, respectively. He conducted the experimental part of his M.S. research project on transient recovery voltage at the high voltage laboratories of Bonneville Power Administration in Portland, Oregon. His Ph.D. research focused on SF6 leakage detection in gas insulated switchgear, for which he was awarded the ETG Innovation Prize. He joined Georgia Tech in 2015 after working for several years at the Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida State University, first as a post-doctoral research associate and then as a research faculty member. His research focuses on superconducting power cables, fault current limiters, ultra-fast mechanical switchgear, short circuit forces in substations, and the grounding aspects of power distribution for future all-electric Navy ships. He has authored and co-authored over 40 publications in journals and conference proceedings and holds several patents. Graber is also interested in the fundamental and applied research projects and the commercialization aspects of new technologies. Additionally, he was a guest technical editor for special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. In his free time, he likes to tinker with audio electronics, play the trumpet, scuba dive in Floridian waters, and paraglide in mountain ranges around the world.

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