Cristina MOREL

Cristina MOREL is a Permanent lecturer-researcher at ESTACA since 2020, specializing in electrical engineering and control systems. Previously, she held academic positions at ESEO (2016-2020) and the IUT of Angers (2000-2020), and began her career at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (1992-1999). Her research focuses on nonlinear dynamics, chaos control, and applications in power electronics and renewable energy systems.

Dr. MOREL holds a Doctorate in Automatics and Applied Computer Science from the University of Angers (2005) and a Habilitation to Direct Research (2016). She earned her Graduate Engineer degree in Automation and Computer Science from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (1992), where she was Vice-major of her promotion.

• 2016: Habilitation to Direct Research in Electronics, University of Angers
• 2005: Doctorate in Automatics and Applied Computer Science, University of Angers
• 1992: Graduate Engineer in Automation and Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Her research spans chaos control, nonlinear dynamics, and their applications in power electronics and renewable energy systems. She pioneered anticontrol of chaos to reduce electromagnetic interference in power converters and developed novel maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms for photovoltaic systems under partial shading. Current work focuses on fault diagnosis for electric vehicle powertrains using entropy analysis and neural networks.

Recent publications (2022-2025) show strong focus on chaos applications for MOSFET thermal management, entropy-based fault diagnosis in inverters, and energy storage optimization for electric vehicles and drones. There is clear evolution toward data-driven approaches (neural networks) for fault detection and real-world applications in e-mobility.

Dr. MOREL has received several academic honors early in her career:

• Winner of the National University Assistant Competition (Romania, 1996)
• Winner of the National University Preparation Competition (Romania, 1993)
• Winner of the national entrance exam to the Polytechnic School of Cluj-Napoca (1987, 15th out of 700 candidates)

She has supervised five PhD theses and three Master's research projects on topics including fault diagnosis in polyphase machines, energy management for battery-ultracapacitor vehicles, and MPPT for photovoltaic systems. Her research is supported by collaborations with University of Angers, ESEO, and ESTACA laboratories.

Dr. MOREL led the Automation and Electrical Engineering research group at ESEO (2016-2018) and the Energy and Environment option (2016-2020), conducting experimental work in power electronics and control systems laboratories focused on converter design and EV powertrain validation.