Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli

Dr.ir. Gautham Ram is an Assistant professor of electric mobility in the DC systems, Energy Conversion and Storage group in the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His current research focuses on electric vehicles, EV charging, PV systems, power electronics, and demand-side management.

He received his bachelor’s and master’s in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Trichy, India in 2011 and the Delft University of Technology in 2013, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Delft University in 2018 for the development of a solar-powered V2G electric vehicle charger compatible with CHAdeMO, CCS/COMBO, and designed smart charging algorithms (with PRE Power Developers, ABB, and UT Austin). From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft working on research topics related to power converters for EV charging, smart charging of EVs, and trolley busses.

He is involved in many projects with industrial and academic partners at the national and EU levels concerning electric mobility and renewable energy such as PV charging of electric vehicles, OSCD, Trolley 2.0, and Flexgrid. He is the coordinator and a lecturer for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Electric cars on edX.org with ~175,000 learners from 175 countries. He is the Vice-chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Benelux chapter.

Areas of Expertise:

• Electric vehicles & charging technology
• Power electronics
• PV systems
• Control algorithms
• Battery storage