Xavier Jordà was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1967. He received the B.S. degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree from the Institut National des Sciences Apliquées de Lyon, Lyon, France, in 1995. From 1990 to 1995, he was with the Centre de Génie Eléctrique de Lyon-Equipe de composants de Puissance et Applications, Lyon, where he worked on vector control of induction motors, three-phase pulsewidth-modulation methods, and ac drives.

Since 1995, he has been with the Power Devices and Systems Group, Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona-Centro Nacional de Microelectrònica (IMB-CNM), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Bellaterra. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 research papers published in journals and conference proceedings. His current research activity deals with the thermal management, modeling, and electrothermal characterization of power semiconductor devices and systems.

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