Dr. Mor Mordechai Peretz was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, in 1979. He received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering (Summa cum laude) from the Negev Academic College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, in 2003, and the M.Sc.(Summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel, in 2005 and 2010, respectively.
From 2010 to 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Power Management and Integrated SMPS, University of Toronto, Canada. In 2012, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, where he is currently the director of the Center for Power Electronics and Mixed-Signal IC.
Dr. Peretz serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS and the IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON LED DRIVES. His research interests include digital and smart control methods for efficient energy processing, SMPS miniaturization, mixed-signal IC design of SMPS, modeling and computer aided design, applications of nonlinear magnetics, and renewable energy systems.
| Significant Achievements | |
|---|---|
| 2014 | Associate Editor - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics |
| 2014 | The Electrical Engineering Department “Teaching Excellence” recognition, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, March, 2014 |
| 2010-2013 | Bikura (first) post-doc Fellowship, Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Full program award (fellowship + reintegration support) On the basis of academic and research excellence. This award was granted to only 6 doctoral students in nationwide competition. |
| 2010-2011 | NSERC post doctorate program |
| 2010 | BGU ‘return-path’ grant for postdoctoral research |
| 2008 | Adams fellowship, Israel academy of sciences and humanities. On the basis of academic and research excellence. This award was granted to only 10 doctoral students in nation wide competition. |
| 2008 | Wolf Foundation PhD scholarship, awarded for outstanding academic and research achievements. This award was granted to only 6 doctoral students in nationwide competition. |
| 2007 | Dean’s list of honor, dean of engineering faculty award for PhD students. On the basis of academic and research excellence for PhD students. Sole winner. |
| 2006 | Kreitman school Fellowship for outstanding Ph.D. candidates |
| 2004–2005 | Hamer scholarship, Israeli council for higher education. On the basis of academic excellence in bachelor degree studies in non-university facilities. This award was granted to only 10 M. Sc. students in nation wide competition. |
| 2003 | Academic distinction award for the B. Tech. studies. Summa cum laude |
| 2003 | Academic distinction award for the 4th year of undergraduate studies. Summa cum laude |
| 2003 | Best undergraduate project award. (Stabilized borderline Active Power Factor Correction for universal utility grid) |
| 2002 | Academic distinction award for the 3rd year of undergraduate studies. Magna cum laude |