USC
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
USC is a university with over 500 years of history, serving as an essential public institution dedicated to the community through study, teaching, research, and the transfer of knowledge.
The Department of Electronics and Computer Science participates in several EU programmes as partner or coordinator. Its core competences include semiconductor and photovoltaic devices modelling and characterization, electronic design, computer simulation, and machine learning techniques, among others.
USC is the RePowerSiC project coordinator and will lead WP1, WP5, and WP7. USC is going to design (combining TCAD and Machine Learning), characterize and validate (in laboratory conditions like outer space) high power laser transmission systems based on SiC laser power converters.
Key Persons
Antonio Garcia Loureiro
Antonio Garcia Loureiro received a MSc degree in Electronic Physics and a PhD in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Nowadays he is a professor in the Department of Electronics, University of Santiago de Compostela. He was a visiting researcher at the Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities during 2002 and 2006. His current research interests include the development of numerical simulators for advanced semiconductor devices, solar cells and power converters. He has published over 100 papers in highly ranked peer-review journals, with more than half in collaboration with international partners, and has participated in more than 150 international conferences. During the last ten years, he has been principal investigator in 11 research projects/contracts, and in another 25 as a member of the research team. Also, he was director of 15 PhD thesis in this field.
Natalia Seoane
Natalia Seoane PhD in 2007 from University of Santiago de Compostela, senior lecturer since 2024, has more than 50 peer-reviewed international journal articles and more than 70 international conference contributions. Principal investigator of three R&D projects and has participated as a member of the research team in 20+ projects. She has been a visiting postdoctoral researcher at British institutions for more than 4 years. Her main research areas include semiconductor device simulation and the development of TCAD tools to study variability effects in state-of-the-art semiconductor devices and photovoltaic solar cell and laser power converter modelling. She has been involved in the development of registered device simulation software (eg. VENDES, FomPY).