Frede Blaabjerg got his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of Power Electronics and Drives in 1998 at AAU Energy. He has been an honoris causa at the University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania, since 2017 and at Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Estonia, since 2018. His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality, and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 800 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of eight monographs and editor of fourteen books in power electronics and its applications. He has received 42 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019, and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. In 2019-2020, he served as a President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Since 2020, he has been the chairman of the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy. He was also nominated in 2014–2019 by Thomson Reuters to be among the 250 most-cited researchers in engineering in the world.