
Jean Frédéric Charpentier was born in Tananarive, Madagascar, in 1969.
He received the M.Sc. (French Engineering Diploma) and PhD degree in electrical engineering from the ENSEEIHT, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, Toulouse, France in 1993 and 1996 respectively. He obtained the "Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches" degree in 2010.
His Phd thesis subject was modeling the association between electrical machine and power electronics drive coupling electronic circuit calculation and 2D Finite Element electromagnetic field calculation.
From 1996 to 1997 he was a post doctoral fellow at Laval University, Québec, Canada. In Québec, he worked on electrical machine and drive modeling and design and on optimization methods for the design of electrical devices .
From 1997 to 2002 he was an Assistant Professor at the University Institute of Technology (IUT) of Brest, University of Western Brittany, Brest, France. In University of Western Brittany, he worked on modelling and design of magneto-mechanical devices as for example magnetic coupling and bearing. He worked also on the design of unconventional electrical machines using iron powder soft magnetic composite (new generation of soft magnetic materials)
Since 2002, he is an Associate Professor in the French Naval Academy (Institut de Recherche de l’Ecole Navale) in Brest, France. His current research topics include modeling and design aspects on electrical machines and drives, electrical naval propulsion systems and marine renewable energy.
He is the author or the co-author of more than 20 articles in major electrical engineering international scientific journals and more than 30 communications in major international conferences.
His experience includes expertise for research and industrial institutions and partnership with industrial firms (research contracts).
Area of expertise :
electrical naval propulsion systems,
marine renewable energy,
electric machines and drives,
electric machine control,
magnetic bearings and couplings,
magnetic material for electrical devices (Permanent Magnet, soft magnetic material)