“applying my creativity in a positive way”
Daniel C. Ludois (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in physics from Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, WI, USA, in 2006, 2008 and 2012, respectively. He cofounded C-Motive Technologies in 2012, a company developing capacitively coupled power conversion technologies. Today C-Motive is working to commercialize electrostatic machines. In 2013, he was with the UW-Madison Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, where he is currently a Jean van Bladel Associate Professor. He is also a Research Director with the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium. His interests include power electronics, electric machines, applied electromagnetics and entrepreneurship. Dr. Ludois was the recipient of the USA National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015 and was named a Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation in 2017. He has co-authored 4 IEEE prize papers.