Biography

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 PhD from Delft University in 2018 for the development of a solar-powered V2G electric vehicle charger with smart charging, compatible with CHAdeMO, CCS/COMBO (with PRE Power Developers, ABB and UT Austin). The project was awarded the ‘Most significant innovation in electric vehicles’ at the IDTechEx Show 2018 in Berlin and the ‘Best Tech idea of 2018’ by KIJK. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral research at TU Delft working on research topics related to power converters for EV charging, smart charging of EVs, trolley busses.

He is involved in many projects with industrial and academic partners at national and EU level concerning electric mobility and renewable energy such as TULIPS, Drive2X, FLOW, FlexEC, FLEXInet. He is the coordinator and a lecturer for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Electric cars on edX.org with ~200,000 learners from 175 countries. He is the Vice-chair of IEEE Industrial Electronic Society Benelux chapter.

  Further information

• LinkedIn profile  
• List of publications: Google Scholar , TU Delft PURE
• PhD thesis: Charging electric vehicles from solar energy - Power converter, charging algorithm and system design

Research area

Electric vehicles - EV charging - Power electronics - PV systems -  Intelligent control  - Energy Storage - Demand-Side Management  

Recognition

Research:

• ‘Young alumni achiever award’, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, 2020
•  ‘Under 35 Innovator’ award from IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, 2019
• Winner ‘Most significant innovation in electric vehicles’ Award Presented at the IDTechEx Show Berlin, 2018
• The ‘Best Tech idea of 2018’ by science magazine KIJK
• ‘Apple Prize’ for outstanding research work in the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy, TU Delft for the year 2016
• Featured on the Dutch national TV NPO1, in their prime time series ‘Breakthrough’ (Doorbraak) as part of the show Een Vandaag  in July 2017
• Selected as one of three finalists for the ‘emove360° award for Energy storage’ in 2017
• Winner of the NRG Battle Europe edition 2013 and runner-up of TU Delft Teamwork Price Award 2014 for developing a new idea for energy storage using silicon. Trained by Yes!Delft and selected as a speaker for TedxDelft Award 2014 to present the idea

 Education:

• Awarded the ‘Ambassador for Open and Online Education award’ by TU Delft, 2022

 Publications:

• Second prize in the Delft Energy Initiative ‘Best Energy Paper Award’, 2022 for W. Vermeer, G. R. C. Mouli and P. Bauer, "A Comprehensive Review on the Characteristics and Modelling of Lithium-ion Battery Ageing," in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 2021, Early access 
• Best Paper award in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics for 2018, “Energy management system with PV power forecast to optimally charge EVs at the workplace" by D.vd. Meer, G.R. Chandra Mouli, G. Morales-Espana, L.Elizondo, and P.Bauer
• Best poster award for G.R. Chandra Mouli, V. Prasanth, J.A. Ferreira, P. Bauer, M. Zeman, “Charging of EV from PV and Contactless Power”, Energy Informatics & Management (EIM) conference, 2016
• Best paper award (Poster category) for G.R. Chandra Mouli, A. Nithya, V. Jayashankar, & P.R. Goundan, “Fail Safe Operation of Audio Frequency Track Circuits for Railway Signalling”, Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), 2009 Annual (pp. 1-5)

Projects

Ongoing:

• NEON: New (transport) Energy Outlook in the Netherlands
• MOOI Flexinet - Intelligent flexibility through integrated energy storage
• Demonstrating lower polluting solutions for sustainable airports across Europe (TULIPS)
• Flexibility in distribution grids - Flexgrid  (TKI project) 
• Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Electric cars on edX.org

Completed:  

• Trolley 2.0 (EME - Electric Mobility Europe) 
• Orchestrating Smart Charging in mass Deployment (OSCD) project (EME - Electric Mobility Europe) 
• Electric Vehicle supported PV Smart grid  
• Solar e-bike charging station 

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