ARCHIMEDES Advisory Board

The establishment of the ARCHIMEDES project’s Advisory Board has been initiated to challenge the decisions, results, and directions taken in the project, serving as a critical mechanism for ensuring the project's alignment with its overarching goals and objectives.

ARCHIMEDES project objectives

Introducing Members of the ARCHIMEDES Advisory Board

The inaugural meeting of the project’s Advisory Board took place on the 28th of March 2025, marking an important milestone for the ARCHIMEDES project.

Frede Blaabjerg

Has been a full professor at Aalborg University for more than 25 years, working on power electronics and its applications. Over the past fifteen years, his focus has been on power electronics component and system reliability, as well as power system stability and reliability in inverter-dominated connections.

He is currently Co-Lead of the Danish Pioneer Centre CAPeX (https://capex.dtu.dk/), a 13-year grant of 45 million euros for discovering new materials for Power-to-X processes, including the development of a digital twin. He is starting his second ERC grant (SaferGrid), studying the future power grid.

Radoslava Mitova

A distinguished power electronics expert in the CTO Office Europe, within the Energy Management Business of Schneider Electric. Her field of expertise is WBG (SiC & GaN) device technologies and conversion topologies for various industrial applications such as motors, drives, and UPS systems.

She also has extensive experience in predictive diagnostics and health monitoring of critical devices, such as power devices and capacitors (both electrolytic and film types).

Erwin Schoitsch

Has been working in the areas of dependable systems, software engineering, and the standardisation of safety-critical systems for more than 50 years. Following his retirement from AIT Austrian Institute of Technology – Austria’s largest independent research institute—he continues as a Senior Research Fellow (freelancer under subcontracts) at AIT.

He is involved in large, industry-driven European projects, particularly under the ARTEMIS JU, then ECSEL JU, and now KDT-JU/Chips JU (Joint Undertaking – a public-private partnership between the European Commission, national authorities, and industrial associations INSIDE, AENEAS, and EPoSS).

His work focuses on multi-concern assurance and co-engineering, highly automated vehicles, Industry 5.0 production and automation, IoT and Digital Twins, AI, Smart Mobility, Robotics, and Smart Manufacturing. Current projects include AI4CSM (Automotive Intelligence for Connected and Shared Mobility, ECSEL JU project), AIMS5.0 (Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing leading to Sustainability and Industry 5.0), A-IQ Ready (AI using quantum-measured information for real-time distributed systems at the edge), PoweriezD, ShapeFuture, MOSAIC, and the EC standardisation support action INSTAR.

Erwin is a member of several scientific organisations, such as ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics), where he serves as Local Editor for Austria of ERCIM News and General Secretary of AARIT, the Austrian mirror group. He is also a member of AIOTI (Alliance for IoT Innovation) and represents AIT in INSIDE and EPoSS—two of the industrial associations within Chips JU. He is also active in numerous standardisation groups of ISO, IEC, and ISO/IEC JTC1, and serves as an organiser or Programme Committee member for conferences such as SAFECOMP, the DECSoS workshop, and IDIMT. At the national level, he is President of the Future Network, which organises cybersecurity and “Society 5.0” workshops. Additionally, he is Co-Leader of the working group on CPS/Industry 4.0/IoT of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and of the Austrian Software Industry Innovation (VÖSI).

Roland D'Authiers

A graduate of Polytech'Nice-Sophia and has extensive experience in power electronics. As the co-founder of AXID Power Electronics, he played a key role in developing innovative solutions in power electronics, with a strong focus on reliability and energy efficiency.

His expertise also extends to technical training and technological monitoring, areas to which he dedicates particular attention to stay at the forefront of technological developments. His involvement in the Advisory Board of the Chips JU co-funded project ARCHIMEDES demonstrates his commitment to promoting innovation and excellence in the electronics sector.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT: ARCHIMEDES is supported by the Chips Joint Undertaking and its members, including the top-up funding by National Authorities under Grant Agreement No 101112295.