Jorge Varela Barreras

Jorge combines an academic role as battery researcher in Imperial College London, with an industrial role as EV expert at CTAG. He is joint chairman of IEEE UK & Ireland Education Society, and editorial board member of eTransportation by Elsevier and WEVJ by MDPI. Previously, he was a postdoc at the University of Oxford, co-chairman of the Oxford Research Staff Society, founder member of the Danish Battery Society, and co-founder of a consulting company. He received the degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Vigo, the M.Sc. in Power Electronics from Aalborg University and the Ph.D. also from Aalborg (2017). He has been involved in 18 international R&D projects with a combined budget over 100M€. He has co-authored 34 peer-reviewed papers, including 14 journal articles and 2 book chapters. His interests include EVs, energy storage systems, batteries, and battery management