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Head of Department for Electrical Power Engineering, Research Associate, Research Assistant

Office hours

by arrangement

Representation:

  • Dr Viktor Wesselak
  • Annika Rausch

Department:

Department of Engineering

Area of responsibility:

Head of Department for Electrical Energy Systems

Field of work:

  • Energy system modelling
  • Electrical machines
  • Electrical systems engineering

Research areas:

  • Fluid friction losses within electrical machines
  • Energy system modelling on various scales (from single-family homes to federal states)

Institute or organisation:

in.RET | Institute for Regenerative Energy Technology

  • Apprenticeship as an electronics technician for energy and building technology
  • Specialised baccalaureate at the Andreas-Gordon-Schule Erfurt
  • Studied regenerative energy technology at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences
  • Study Systems Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen
  • currently: PhD on fluid friction losses in electrical machines at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  • Schmidt, T. Schabbach and M. Doppelbauer, "Numerical Investigations on the Effects of Slot Openings on Friction Losses in the Air Gap of Electrical Machines," 2022 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), 2022, pp. 1411-1416, doi: 10.1109/ICEM51905.2022.9910701
  • Schmidt, A. Oberdorfer, T. Reinhardt, S. Voswinckel, V. Wesselak, "Influence of electricity price fluctuation on the energy system of Thuringia in 2050", 27th REGWA Symposium, Stralsund, 2020
  • Schmidt, T. Schabbach, and M. Doppelbauer, "An alternative approach for determining the conductive thermal resistances in lumped parameter thermal networks of electric machines using conduction shape coefficients," in 2020 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), vol. 1, 2020, pp. 1491-1496
  • Schmidt, T. Holoyad, "Moderne Optimierungsansätze für elektrische Maschinen im Mobilitätssektor", In: RET.Con 2020: Tagungsband : 3. Regenerative Energy Technology Conference in Nordhausen 13-14 February 2020. Nordhausen: Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences. S. 206-228. Online at: https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00046250.
  • Schmidt, P. Manz, S. Voswinckel, V. Wesselak, "Kontinuierliche Leistungsmessung am Freifeld-Teststand für systembedingte Degradationsmechanismen", 29th OTTI Symposium Photovoltaic Solar Energy, Bad Staffelstein 2014

  • Course Sector Coupling
  • Internship electrical systems engineering
  • Internship Electrical Power Engineering
  • Internship Photovoltaics
  • Internship Electrical Machines

  • Volkswagen Baunatal
  • Erfurt municipal utilities
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Reiner Lemoine Institute
  • TU-Ilmenau

  • Member of the local staff council;
  • Chairman of the doctoral student representation;
  • Member of the University Health Management Committee;
  • Board member of the Institute for Regenerative Energy Technology

Christoph Schmidt

Problems can never be solved with the same mindset that created them.

Albert Einstein