María Inés Valla (born 1956) is an Argentine

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and power engineer specializing in

power electronics Power electronics is the application of electronics to the control and conversion of electric power. The first high-power electronic devices were made using mercury-arc valves. In modern systems, the conversion is performed with semiconduct ...

and

nonlinear control Nonlinear control theory is the area of control theory which deals with systems that are nonlinear system, nonlinear, time-variant system, time-variant, or both. Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that ...

for

electric power Electric power is the rate of transfer of electrical energy within a electric circuit, circuit. Its SI unit is the watt, the general unit of power (physics), power, defined as one joule per second. Standard prefixes apply to watts as with oth ...

systems. She is a professor of electrical engineering at the

National University of La Plata The National University of La Plata (, UNLP) is a national public research university located in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It has over 90,000 regular students, 10,000 teaching staff, 17 departments and 10 ...

, affiliated with the

National Scientific and Technical Research Council The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (, CONICET) is an Argentina, Argentine Government of Argentina, government agency which directs and co-ordinates most of the scientific and technical research done in List of universities i ...

(CONICET) Institute for Research in Electronics, Control and Signal Processing (LEICI).

Education and career

Valla was born in

Paraná, Entre Ríos Paraná () is the capital city of the Argentine province Entre Ríos, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, opposite the city of Santa Fe, capital of the neighbouring Santa Fe Province. The city has a population of 268,889 inhabit ...

on April 3, 1956. She earned an engineering degree from the National University of La Plata in 1980 and completed a doctorate there in 1994, under the joint supervision of Carlos F. Christiansen and José María Catalfo. She served as co-editor-in-chief of ''IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics'' from 2013 to 2018.

Book

Valla is the coauthor, with Sergio Alberto González and Santiago Andrés Verne, of the book ''Multilevel Converters for Industrial Applications'' (CRC Press, 2014).

Recognition

Valla received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. She was named an

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

in 2010 "for contributions to non-linear control of electric drives". In 2019, the National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Argentina gave Valla the Premio Consagración, their highest award.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valla, Maria 1956 births Living people People from Paraná, Entre Ríos National University of La Plata alumni Academic staff of the National University of La Plata Argentine engineers Argentine women engineers Fellows of the IEEE