It is a pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2025 Hans Tropper Memorial Lecture is Prof. Issouf Fofana.
Prof. Issouf Fofana obtained his PhD from École Centrale de Lyon, France, in 1996. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Lyon in 1997 and was 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 has been a full Professor since 2010. He has held the Canada Research Chair, tier 2, of insulating liquids and mixed dielectrics for electrotechnology (ISOLIME) from 2005 to 2015. He holds the Canada Research Chair tier 1 on the Aging of liquid-filled power equipment installed on High Voltage networks (ViAHT), he is director of the MODELE laboratory and the International Research Centre for Nordic Engineering (CIIN). Issouf is an accredited professional engineer in the province of Québec, Fellow of the IET, and the 2021 IEEE Chen Jidan Award. He is currently a member of few international conference scientific committees (ICDL, CEIDP, ICHVE, CATCON, ICEMPE, and ISH). Since 2017, he is the chair of the IEEE DEIS Technical Committee on Liquid Dielectrics. He has authored/co-authored over 400 scientific publications.
The title of his lecture is ‘Applications of ester liquids in power transformers’.
The previous recipients of the ‘Hans Tropper Lecture’ are:
| Year | Location | Recipient | Title of Lecture |
| 1984 | Pavia, Italy | T.J. Lewis | Electronic Processes in Dielectric Liquids Under Incipient Breakdown Stress |
| 1987 | Salford, UK | N.J. Félici | Blazing a Fiery Trail with the Hounds |
| 1990 | Grenoble, France | Unknown | Unknown |
| 1993 | Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland | P. Atten | Electrohydrodynamic Instability and Motion Induces by Space Charge in Insulating Liquids |
| 1996 | Roma, Italy | K. Yoshino | Electronic Processes in Liquids of Aromatic and Conjugated Structure |
| 1999 | Nara, Japan | Unknown | Unknown |
| 2002 | Graz, Austria | J.K. Nelson | Motion at the Liquid-solid Interface - Developing Design Tools from Fundamental Models |
| 2005 | Coimbra, Portugal | C.W. Fabjan | Fundamental Physics with Noble Liquid Detectors |
| 2008 | Poitiers, France | M. Pompili | Partial Discharge Measurements in Dielectric Liquids |
| 2011 | Trondheim, Norway | A. Denat | Conduction and Breakdown in Dielectric Liquids |
| 2014 | Bled, Slovenia | E. Gockenbach | Liquids in High Voltage Equipment |
| 2017 | Manchester, UK | H. Okubo | Kerr Electro-optic Electric Field Measurement and Electrical Insulation Performance in HVDC Liquid Dielectric Systems |
| 2019 | Rome, Italy | J. Yagoobi | Transport of Heat and Mass with Electrical Field – from Earth to Space |
| 2022 | Seville, Spain | F. Borghesani | Charge Transport in Dense Noble Gases (and more) |
| 2023 | Worcester, USA | A. Beroual | Models for predicting the streamers propagation velocity in liquid dielectrics |