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Nicola Femia received the Laurea Degree with honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno, in 1988.

He is currently Professor at the University of Salerno, where he teaches Power Electronics in the Electronic Engineering Master Program. His research activities encompass circuit theory and applications, design and optimization of switching power supplies, magnetic power components modeling and optimization, power electronics and control techniques, wireless power transfer systems. He has co-authored about 180 scientific papers, six patents and one book on power electronics topics.

In the last two decades he has directed and developed tens of research and education projects on power electronics topics in collaboration with world-wide electronics companies, like National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, National Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Power-One/ABB, Whirlpool, Coilcraft, and Würth.

He held more than 50 invited lectures, courses and seminars on Power Electronics Design and Education for universities and industries over Europe, United States, China and India. In 2014 he has been Visiting Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

He is the author and co-creator of the Texas Instruments Power Management Laboratory Kit (TI-PMLK), of the Texas Instruments Power Electronics board for National Instruments ELVIS III, TI-PMLK BUCK-Würth Elektronik Edition, the most enhanced tools for university and industry power electronics education and training.