Project title: Advancing Energy Conversion Technologies: High-Frequency Magnetics in Modern Power Electronics
Project acronym: MAGNIFY
Call: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01
Type of action: HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks
Our joint journey has officially begun. The consortium, bringing together 15 universities, research centres, and industrial partners and led by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, is ready to tackle ambitious goals and explore new frontiers in the development of energy conversion technologies.
The project beneficiaries — KU Leuven (Belgium), TAU (Finland), ULB (Belgium), UPJŠ (Slovakia), CERTH (Greece), INRIM (Italy), HE-PL (Poland), DANFOSS (Sweden), and UPM (Spain) — combine expertise in experiments and simulations, from material-level research to power electronics applications, within a holistic approach covering the entire energy conversion value chain.
The consortium also includes manufacturers and designers providing state-of-the-art solutions in power electronics, such as Danfoss (Sweden) and Hitachi (Switzerland), simulation solutions by ALTAIR (France), and application-oriented partners BSH (Slovakia) and Thales Alenia Space (Belgium).
Source: project MAGNIFY
The project is implemented at the Institute of Physics, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) under the leadership of Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Ján Füzer, PhD., who will also serve as the supervisor of the doctoral candidate MEng. Ioannis Tsoukalas. Other project researchers includeProf. RNDr. Peter Kollár, DrSc. and RNDr. Samuel Dobák, PhD.
The MAGNIFY project strengthens European excellence in the field of power electronics by advancing magnetic materials, modelling, and device design for efficient energy conversion. Through an interdisciplinary approach and the training of 15 doctoral candidates, the project will contribute to increased global energy efficiency and sustainable technological innovation.
The doctoral position at UPJŠ within the project was awarded, following a competitive selection process, to MEng. Ioannis Tsoukalas from Greece, who commenced his doctoral studies on 1 February 2026. The topic of his doctoral research is Advanced soft magnetic composites with ferrite insulation, aiming at the design and development of advanced soft magnetic composites with enhanced magnetic, electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties for sustainable power electronics applications across a wide temperature range.
As part of his doctoral studies, MEng. Ioannis Tsoukalas will participate not only in consortium meetings but also in several-month research secondments at INRIM in Turin, CERTH in Thessaloniki, and BSH in Slovakia.
More information is available on the project website.
