Winner of the Semikron Danfoss Innovation Award 2026
This year the jury has selected Neha Nain, Matthias Kasper, Kennith Leong, Gerald Deboy from Infineon Technologies Austria, together with Sven Weihe, Jonas Huber, and Johann W. Kolar from ETH Zurich, for their innovative work on ´Monolithic Bidirectional GaN Transistors – Power Electronics’ Missing Element´ for the Semikron Danfoss Innovation Award 2026!

Winner of the Semikron Danfoss Young Engineer Award 2026
The Semikron Danfoss Young Engineer Award 2026 goes to Ruben Schnitzler from the University of Stuttgart, Institute of Robust Power Semiconductor Systems, Germany for his work on ´Rapid Gate Switching Instability Characterization of SiC MOSFET at Extended Lifetimes using Accelerated Switching Frequencies of 40 MHz´, as well as Jiahong Liu from the Aalborg University, Department of Energy, Denmark for his work on ´A Practical Gate-Driver Add-on for SiC MOSFET Reliability: Ultrafast Adaptive Short-Circuit Protection and Online Gate-Oxide Health Monitoring´.

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The Semikron Danfoss Innovation Award and the Semikron Danfoss Young Engineer Award is given for outstanding innovations in projects, prototypes, services or novel concepts in the field of power electronics in Europe, combined with notable societal benefits in form of supporting environmental protection and sustainability by improving energy efficiency and conservation of resources. Both prizes have been initiated in 2012 by the SEMIKRON Foundation. Semikron Danfoss is awarding the prizes in cooperation with the European ECPE Network.

Pictures: © Marc Wiegelmann / VDE
from top left to down right: 
1. Peter Beckedahl (Semikron Danfoss) with representative of Innovation Award winning team Prof. Johann W. Kolar and Prof. Leo Lorenz (ECPE).
2. Peter Beckedahl (Semikron Danfoss) with Young Engineer Award winner Ruben Schnitzler and Prof. Leo Lorenz (ECPE).
3. Peter Beckedahl (Semikron Danfoss) with Young Engineer Award winner Jiahong Liu and Prof. Leo Lorenz (ECPE).