Ahmed Lotfy Elrefai
Associate Professor
ahmed.lotfy@ejust.edu.eg
Personal Info
B26.F02.14
Electrical Power Engineering
Ahmed L. Elrefai received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt in 2011. He also received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt in July 2013. In October 2013, Dr. Elrefai was awarded the Japanese government MEXT/Monbukagakusho scholarship to complete his doctorate studies in Electrical Engineering from Kyushu University, where he received his doctorate degree in September 2016.
From 2016 to 2021, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the magnetic nanoparticle biosensing systems research center, Kyushu University, Japan where he was awarded a two year postdoctoral fellowship (2018-2020) from Japan Scoiety for Promotion of Science (JSPS). In 2021, he joined Cairo University, Egypt, as Assistant Professor at the Electrical Power Engineering Department. Since February 2025, he has held the position of Associate Professor in the Electrical Power Engineering Department at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology.
Dr. Elrefai has 14 years of experience in academic research, supervision of postgraduate students and academic teaching of postgrad/undergrad courses. He also has 3 years of experience as technical instructor at Egypt’s National Telecommunications Institute and Information Technology Institute, delivering hands-on training programs on designing production-ready industrial electronic products.
Power Electronic Converters – Smart Grids – IOT Applications in Electric Systems – Grid Forming and Grid Following Inverters – Battery Management Systems – Motor Control and Machine Drives – Wireless Power Transfer – Embedded Systems Design and Implementation – Magnetic Sensors – Magnetic nanoparticles Biomedical Applications – Magnetic Particle Imaging – Magnetic Hyperthermia – Solar Still Desalination
