Philippe J. Masson

Dr. Philippe Masson has been working for over 20 years in the area of electro-mechanical systems, power application of superconductivity, electrical machine design, analysis-led design and Multi-Physics modeling. As Senior Scientist at AML, Dr. Masson leads the company’s electrical machine and related magnet technology development which includes MOEM™ a proprietary software for the optimization of motors and generators.

His career began at the FSU-Center for Advanced Power Systems in Tallahassee, FL where for over six years he worked on the development of high power density superconducting machine for aircraft propulsion and on numerical modeling of electro-thermal instabilities in superconductors. At the same time, he was appointed by the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering as adjunct professor for the Department of Electrical Engineering.

For six years, he served as a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Principal Investigator of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

Dr. Masson has served on the Editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity as Editor for Large Scale Applications for over 13 years. He is an elected member of the board of director of the Applied Superconductivity Conference, a member of the International Organizing Committee of CHAT-AS and the HTS Modeling Workshop, a board member of the HTS Modeling Workgroup and a founding member and instructor of the International School on Numerical Modeling for Applied Superconductivity. He also serves on the conference committee for Magnetics 2020.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of AIAA and a member of the Cryogenic Society of America.

He received the “Outstanding Young Researcher Award” from NASA in 2007 and the Roger W. Boom Award from the Cryogenic Society of America in 2010. Dr. Masson has published over 50 journal papers and given more than 90 conference presentations in the area of electro-mechanical systems, Applied Superconductivity and Multi-Physics Modeling. He received a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the Université Henri Poincare, Nancy, France in 2002.