Christian Franck

Biography

Christian M. Franck was appointed Associate Professor of High Voltage Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich by June 2015 (Assistant Professor from Jan 2010 – May 2015). He studied physics at the Universities of Bonn (Germany), Edinburgh (Scotland), and Kiel (Germany) where he graduated 1999 with a diploma. Afterwards he worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald (Germany) in the area of electromagnetic wave propagation in magnetized plasmas, receiving his Ph.D. in experimental physics in 2003. Then he worked at the ABB Research Center in Baden (Switzerland) in the area of current interruption, limitation and high voltage insulation. From 2005 on he headed the group for high voltage systems and gas circuit breakers. In January 2010 he joined ETH Zurich as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in June 2015. He is married and has three children. His current research and teaching is in the area of “technologies for future electric energy transmission systems” with focus in the areas of High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission technology and High-Voltage Gaseous Insulation Systems.

Research Interest

High-Voltage Gaseous Insulation Systems; High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission technology