Shafigh Nategh received his Ph.D. degree in electric power engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, from 2012 to 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Lead Designer of PM machines for marine segment with the Rolls-Royce Group, Trondheim, Norway. He continued his career as a Designer of traction motors for railway applications with Bombardier Transportation, Västerås, Sweden, from 2015 to 2018. He was an R&D Senior Engineer with E-mobility Department, ABB AB, Västerås, Sweden, in 2018–2020, and Principal Engineer with Volvo Cars, Göteborg, Sweden, in 2020-2022. During this period, he held a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. He was a Senior Principal Engineer and also Manager of Electric Drive Unit CAE and Electromagnetic Design with Polestar, Göteborg, Sweden. He is currently an Electric Motor Expert at Huawei Research Center. Dr. Nategh is a Chair of IEEE IES Electrical Machines Technical Committee, Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, and technical Chair/Co-chair of several electrical machine conferences. His research interests include different aspects of electrical machine design in consumer electronics, e-mobility, marine, aerospace and railway applications.

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