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Sebastián Felipe Neira Castillo

PhD Student

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


My current research interests include the design and control of multiport and multilevel power converters applied to energy storage, solar energy conversion, and industrial applications.

Educación

  •  Electrical Engineer, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2016
  •  Electrical Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2017

Experiencia Académica

  •   Laboratory demonstrator Part Time

    UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

    Engineering

    Edinburgh, Reino Unido

    2021 - 2021

  •   Lecturer assistant Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Engineering

    Santiago, Chile

    2019 - 2020

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Development Engineer Full Time

    RT Electronics

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - 2019

Premios y Distinciones

  •   Student Project Demonstration on Emerging Technology Award

    IEEE ECCE 2019

    Estados Unidos, 2019

    For oral demonstration of power electronics project


 

Article (3)

Sequential Phase-Shifted Model Predictive Control for Modular Multilevel Converters

Poblete, Pablo; Neira, Sebastian; Aguilera, Ricardo P.; Pereda, Javier; Pou, Josep

Article ISI
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION  (2021)

Three-Port Full-Bridge Bidirectional Converter for Hybrid DC/DC/AC Systems

Neira, Sebastian; Pereda, Javier; Rojas, Felix

Article ISI
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS  (2020)

New Dual H-Bridge Converter for Continuous Space Vector Modulation

Tomás Durán, Sebastián Neira; Javier Pereda, Félix Rojas

Article
IET Power Electronics  (2019)

ConferencePaper (8)

Closed-Loop Performance Improvement for MMCs Based on Optimal Reference Governor

Pablo Poblete; Sebastian Neira; Rodrigo Cuzmar; Ricardo Aguilera; Andrés Mora; Javier Pereda

ConferencePaper
 (2021)

Modular Multilevel Converter with Inductor Parallel Branch Providing Integrated Partially Rated Energy Storage

Sebastian Neira; Zoe Blatsi; Paul Judge; Michael Merlin; Javier Pereda

ConferencePaper
 (2021)

Modular Multilevel Converter with Stack-Parallel Cascaded H-Bridge Energy Storage Branch

Zoe Blatsi; Sebastian Neira; Paul Judge; Michael Merlin; Stephen Finney

ConferencePaper
 (2021)

A Novel Three-Port NPC Converter for Grid-Tied Photovoltaic Systems with Integrated Battery Energy Storage

Sebastián Neira; Alonso Lizana; Javier Pereda

ConferencePaper
 (2020)

Sequential Phase-Shifted Model Predictive Control for a Multilevel Converter with Integrated Battery Energy Storage

Sebastián Neira; Pablo Poblete; Rodrigo Cuzmar; Javier Pereda; Ricardo Aguilera

ConferencePaper
 (2020)

Trapezoidal Current Mode for Bidirectional High Step Ratio Modular Multilevel dc-dc Converter

C. Pineda; J. Pereda; S. Neira; P. Bravo; J. Rodriguez; C. Garcia

ConferencePaper
 (2020)

Three-Port Full-Bridge Cell for Multilevel Converters with Battery Energy Storage

Neira S.; Pereda, J.; Merlin M.; Rojas F.

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
2016 IEEE ENERGY CONVERSION CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION (ECCE)  (2019)

Consensus-Based Distributed Control of a Multilevel Battery Energy Storage System

Sebastian Neira; Pablo Poblete; Javier Pereda; Felipe Nuñez

ConferencePaper
 

Proyecto (1)

Direct and Resonant Modular Multilevel Converters for Power Networks

FONDECYT (1171142)

Proyecto
2017-2020
Investigador(a)

10
Sebastián Neira

PhD Student

Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

3
Javier Pereda

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Pablo Poblete

Fundador

Andes Electronics Spa

Rancagua, Chile