Anouar Belahcen (M13-SM15) is a professor in
computational electromechanics at Aalto University in Finland. His research
interests are the numerical modeling of electrical machines, magnetic materials
characterization and modeling, coupled magneto-mechanical problems, magnetic
forces and magnetostriction, iron losses, and fault diagnostics of electrical
machines. He is a senior member of the IEEE Society and a member of the first
Board (AdCom) of the ICEM NPO, which manages the ICEM conferences, and a member
of the ICS board, which manages the COMPUMAG conference. He has authored or
co-authored more than 90 journal papers and several conference papers, many of
which are the result of joint international cooperation, with French, German,
Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Belgian, Portuguese, and Chinese research groups.
Besides his work at Aalto University, he has been working as an invited
professor at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia since 2011, where he
teaches subjects related to electrical machines and supervises Ph.D. and
postdoc researchers.