Issouf Fofana obtained his PhD from École Centrale de Lyon,
France, in 1996. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Lyon in 1997 and worked at
the Schering Institute of High-Voltage Engineering Techniques at the University
of Hanover, Germany, from 1998 to 2000. He was a fellow of the Alexander von
Humboldt Stiftung from November 1997 to August 1999. He has been at Université
du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Quebec, Canada, since 2000, where he is presently
a full professor. He held the Canada Research Chair, tier 2, of insulating
liquids and mixed dielectrics for electrotechnology (ISOLIME) from 2005 to
2015. He is holding the Canada Research Chair tier 1 on the Aging of liquid
filled power equipment installed on High Voltage networks (ViAHT), and is the Director of
the MODELE laboratory and the International Research Centre for Nordic
Engineering (CIIN). Professor Fofana is an accredited professional engineer in
the province of Québec, and Fellow of the IET and the 2021 IEEE Chen Jidan Award.
He is currently a member of a few international conference scientific committees
(ICDL, CEIDP, ICHVE, CATCON, ICEMPE and ISH). Since 2017, he has been the Chair of
the IEEE DEIS Technical Committee on Liquid Dielectrics. He has
authored/co-authored over 400 scientific publications.
