Academic Group

Professor Juan Carlos Olivares Galván was born in Mexico in 1969. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia (Mexico) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. His Ph.D. in electrical engineering from CINVESTAV, Guadalajara, Mexico in 2003.

He was visiting professor at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, in 2001 (12 months). He was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, during 2014 (12 months). He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is currently a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Department of Energy, Azcapotzalco Campus).

He was a transformer design engineer for eight years at Electromanufacturas S.A. de C.V. (Electromanufacturas operated as a subsidiary of Eaton Corporation plc.). He has reviewed more than 300 scientific articles in various journals. He is a member of the ANCE Standardization Committee for the development, modification and revision of ANCE Mexican Standards and participates in committee 14 (transformers).

His main interests are related to the experimental and numerical analysis of electromagnetic devices. He has published 47 papers in JCR journals. His publications have been cited more than 1000 times (google scholar). He has registered a patent at the IMPI (Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property). He is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level II in the engineering area).