Francesco Cupertino

electrical machines - team leader

email cupertino@poliba.it - tel. +39 080 5963769 - fax. +39 080 5963410

Francesco CupertinoFrancesco Cupertino was born in Fasano, Italy, on December 1972. He received the Laurea degree and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Italy, in 1997 and 2001 respectively. From 1999 to 2000 he was with PEMC research group, University of Nottingham, UK. From 2002 to 2014 he was an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Bari. From November 2014 he is an Associate Professor of Converters, Electrical Machines and Drives at the department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Politecnico di Bari where he teaches a course in Electrical Drives. His research interests include the design of permanent magnet electrical machines, intelligent motion control of electrical machines, applications of computational intelligence to control, sensorless control of ac electric drives, signal processing techniques for three phase signal analysis and fault diagnosis of ac motors. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers on these topics (24 on peer-reviewed internatinal journals). In is the scientific director of the laboratory EFB and the responsible for the research line "High speed electrical machines".