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Nihal Kularatna, DSc

Associate Professor
The University of Waikato

Nihal Kularatna is an electronics engineer with over 46 years. He has authored ten books for practicing electronic engineers including the two consecutive IET Electrical Measurement Series books and five Elsevier (USA) titles. His latest research monograph titled Energy Storage Devices for Renewable Energy Systems: Rechargeable Batteries and Supercapacitors, was published by Elsevier in June 2021. He was the winner of New Zealand Innovator of the Year 2013 Award.
From 1976 to 1985 he worked as an electronics engineer at airports and digital telephone exchange systems. From 1985 to 2002, he had an industrial reserch career at the Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, where he was promoted to the CEO in 1999. In the 1990s, he was an active consultant for a few US companies, including the Gartner Group, Technology Dynamics, NJ and many other organizations in his home country. He moved to New Zealand acdemia in 2002 joining University of Auckland. He moved to University of Waikato in 2006.
A Fellow of the IET (London), Fellow of Engineering NZ and a Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and a 1976 graduate from the University of Ceylon, he was coferred with a DSc degree by UoW in 2015. He is currently active in research in non-traditional supercapacitor applications, power converters and portection sytems. He has contributed over 175 papers to learned journals and international conferences. His work on supercapacitor assisted (SCA) circuit topologies/techniques such as SCALDO, SCASA and SCATMA culminated numerous US, NZ and PCT patents. He is presently an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, UoW, New Zealand. At international IEEE conferences and industry trade shows he frequently delivers invited tutorials, workshops and lectures. His hobbies are gardening and car-grooming.




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