Noureddine Takorabet received an Engineer Degree from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers in 1993, a Master's degree in electrical engineering from University Nancy I, France, in 1994 and a PhD from INPL in 1996. He is currently Professor at University of Lorraine and a member of GREEN. His main research activities deal with electromagnetic devices modeling and optimisation. In particular, he is interested in electromechanical conversion. His teaching activities concern electrical machines, electromagnetics and numerical simulation and design of electromagnetic devices.