Stephan Passon

Stephan Passon was born in Salzgitter, Germany, in 1991. He visited the High School at Salzgitter, and afterward, he started studying at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. He received the Ph.D. degree from Technische Universität Braunschweig in 2022. For his bachelor’s thesis at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, he planned, built, tested, and calibrated an impulse voltage divider. In 2017, he started his master’s thesis on a high-voltage divider for DC as well as superimposed voltages like switching impulses on DC. Since the end of 2017, he was working on his Ph.D. thesis for the measurement of very fast transients and superimposed signals in HVDC transmission systems, which he finished in 2021. In his fourth semester, he began his work as a Research Assistant with the Institute of High Voltage Engineering and the Electrical Energy Facility, Technische Universität Braunschweig, where his interest in high-voltage engineering and application grew and soon he began his bachelor’s thesis. During the next three years, in PTB’s high-voltage metrology working group, he worked on several national and international projects in HVDC transmission, switchgear testing and design, and precision voltage and current sensor calibration.