Jonathan Carlos Mayo-Maldonado received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Ciudad Madero, Mexico, in 2008 and 2010 respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton in 2015, under the supervision of Dr. Paolo Rapisarda.


He is currently an Associate Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. His research interests include switched systems, behavioural systems theory and power electronics.


He has worked on the development of a new framework to study switched systems. This framework is strongly based on the physical observation of real-life systems with switching dynamics. The proposed setting is rich and flexible in the algorithms that can be used, since it permits the modelling of dynamic modes as sets of higher-order differential equations that do not necessarily share the same state space. Applications of this framework include modelling and stabilisability of power converters and energy distribution networks.


Jonathan says: "I am very pleased and honoured to receive this prestigious award. During my Ph.D.studies, I had the opportunity to work on a very challenging topic that demanded a lot of hard work and well articulated thoughts. I am glad that the results obtained were published in a number of journals in different disciplines such as Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics, corroborating the theoretical and practical advantages that were proposed in the thesis. The IET Doctoral Dissertation Award represents an invigorating experience that remind me the merits obtained from an open mind and hard work and also encourage me to always pursue the highest standards in my scientific career".


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