Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society

The graduate fellowship, established by the Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), is a prestigious grant and enables its winner to further explore a research topic in the areas of electrical insulation and dielectric phenomena. The fellowship aims at students pursuing their Ph.D. degree and is awarded for a one-year research topic aside (but close to) the larger research project of the applicant.

The submitting graduate student must be either a student member of IEEE or have applied for a student membership in IEEE at the time of application submission. Priority will be given to those students who are also DEIS members and if the major advisor for the student is also a DEIS member. Previous recipients of this award are not eligible for consideration.

The DEIS Graduate Student awards are competitive, and the research proposals are refereed by members of the DEIS Education Committee (and/or other referees).

The fellowship is offered annually and will be awarded to 2-5 students. Each recipient receives an initial payment of $3000. The second and final payment of $2000 is made once the recipient published and presented the work at a DEIS conference.

Eligible candidates are full-time graduate students currently pursuing the Ph.D. degrees. The calls for research proposals for the upcoming academic year will be opened in April each year (Call 2024).

Winners of the 2023 graduate fellowship listed here

Contact
Prof. Christian M. Franck
Educational Committee Chair (2023 – ongoing)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)
[email protected]

Past awardees

2023

2023

Fabian Bill	ETH Zurich	Vitrimers – a Step Towards a More Sustainable Transmission Grid?
Ghada Gmati	University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC)	Dynamic Moisture and Temperature Monitoring Modules for Power Transformers
Haoliang Liu	Tianjin University, China	Space Charge Measurement of Polymer Dielectrics in Strong Magnetic Field Based on Current Integral Method
Praveen Sahu	School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University (WL), USA	Intracellular Protein Interactions of Biodielectric Triple Negative Cancer Cells Treated with Electric Pulses
Meng Zhou	Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS), China	Dielectric Gradient Materials Fabrication: A Synergy of Electric Field Assistance and Photocuring 3D Printing

2022

Aritra Das	IIT Ropar, India	Location of Damaged Insulation for an Underground Power Cable in High-Frequency Model
Zhifei Han	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Surface Acoustic Wave Technology for Online Monitoring of Insulator Electric Fields”
Rohith Sangineni	IIT Guwahati, India	A Robust, Cost-effective, Portable and Non-Invasive Device for Condition Assessment of Liquid Insulation
Mingcong Yang	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Identification and regulation of interface heterojunctions between high-temperature polymers and inorganic oxides

2021

Shaojie Wang, China	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Understand the interphase of nanodielectric from the direct detection in model polymer
Shixun Hu	North China Electric Power University	Dielectric Properties Enhancement Mechanism and Tailoring Strategy of Grafting Modification Based on Thermoplastic Polymer for HVDC Cable Insulation
Jia-Yao Pei	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Suppression of conduction loss of polymer dielectrics at elevated temperatures through electrode-dielectric interface engineering”
Duvan Mendoza-Lopez	University of Toulouse	Study of charge trapping phenomena by coupled LIMM and PSD measurements in BOPP thin films
Tianyu Wang	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Research on directly controlling the trap parameters of insulating materials to control the surface charge
Sang Cheng	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Surface Coated Polymers for High- performance High-temperature Dielectric Materials

2020

Yujie Zhu	Tsinghua University, China	Rational Design on High Temperature Polymer via Machine Learning
Alexios Ioannidis	Aristotle University of Thessalonik, Greece	Fractal-based modeling of surface discharges in advanced solid dielectrics
Ajith John Thomas	IIT Ropar, Rupnagar, India	Electric Treeing Breakdown Fields Incorporating Nonlinear Conduction under Steady State DC and Polarity Reversal
Evangelos Staikos	Aristotle University of Thessalonik, Greece	Wide frequency modeling of metal-oxide varistors and advanced surge protection of smart devices
Hanwen Ren	North China Electric Power University	Development of space charge measurement technology with high spatial and temporal resolutions based on optical principles

2019

Jia Wei	Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA	Investigation of the dielectric properties of pure supercritical fluids and mixtures
Valerie Renoll	Johns Hopkins University, USA	Nucleic Acid – Polymer Hybrid Materials for Biocompatible Piezoelectric Devices
Xiaolei Zhao	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Study on Application of Adaptive Materials in High-Voltage DC Bushings
Hucheng Liang	School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, China	3D Electric Field Reconstruction inside Gas Insulated Transmission Line by Induced Charge Tomography
Tushar Damle	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology	Investigation of the effect of surface charge density on insulator flashover characteristics in shipboard power systems

2018

Chunjia Gao	North China Electric Power University	Interface Charge Characteristic of Insulation Structures under Various Voltage Stresses
Yang Ge	North China Electric Power University	Working mechanism of nanoparticles on charge transport, streamer propagation and breakdown property of transformer
Zhikang Yuan	North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China	Study on Synergistic Effects of C 3 F 7 CN Gas Mixtures.
Lakshya Mittal	Purdue University, USA	Proteomic Analysis of Breast Cancer Cell Plasma Membrane Electroporation using Ultra-Microsecond and Other Pulses
Maryam Mesgarpour Tousi	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Nonlinear dielectrics for partial discharge control in next-generation wide bandgap power

2017

Florian Hartmann	University Linz, Austria	Dielectric Separators for a New Generation of Stretchable Batteries
Asha Sharma	IIT Kanpur, India	Modeling of Interfaces in Nanodielectrics using Electric Force Microscopy
Animesh Roy Chowdhury	Texas Tech University, USA	Study of Possible ″Lock-On″ in a GaN Based Photo Conductive Semiconductor Switch for High Voltage and High Power Applications

2016

Lei Gao	Tsinghua University Beijing	Self-healing Polymeric Insulation Dielectrics from Photo-Responsive Microcapsule Composites
Amanda Loveless	Purdue University, USA	Derivation of Scaling laws for AC Breakdown Voltage in Microdischarges
Robert Pichler	University Linz, Austria	Dielectric Elastomers for Energy Harvesting in Aqueous Environment

2015

Ning Liu, China	University of Liverpool, UK	“Modeling of Charge Trapping/Detrapping Characteristics in XLPE Cables and Their Relation with Ageing”
Thomas Heid, Austria	TU Graz, Austria	“Innovative Nano-Structured Epoxy Composites for Enhanced High Voltage Insulation Systems”
Deep Jariwala, India	Northwestern University, USA	“Towards Large-area, Uniform Dielectrics on Two-dimensional Transition Metal
Raphael Färber	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	“Modular arbitrary waveform dielectric spectroscopy for aging diagnostics of recessed epoxy specimens exposed to mixed-frequency high voltage stress”

2014

Myriam Koch, Germany	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	“Determination of Partial Discharge Inception Level with Pulsed X-Ray”
Christian Siket, Austria	Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria	“Patterned High-K Metal Oxide Dielectric Films for Plastic Electronic Circuits”
Andrew Fierro, USA	Center of Pulsed Power and Power Electronics, USA	“Investigation of pulsed, low-temperature plasma formation by experimental and simulation techniques”

2012-2013

Peng Wang, China	Southwest Jiatong University, VRC	“Influencing Factors on the Lifetime of Turn-to-Turn Insulation for Type II Inverter-Fed Motors at Repetitive Square”
Refat Atef Ghunem, Syria	Amerian University of Sharjah, UAE	“A Study of the Direct Current Erosion Mechanism of Poymetric Materials”
Scott Harris, USa	Central Michigan University, USA	“Dielectric Barrier Discharges in Micrometer Sized Voids”
Yu Deng, China	Tsinghua University, China	“Electrical Performance of Icicled and It’s Impact on Ice Flashover Due to Morphology Difference”
Yue Fan Du, China	North China Electric Power University, China	Enhancing Transformer Oils Insulating Characteristics Through the Development of Dielectric Nanofluids