received his B.S. (1984) and M.S. (1986) degrees from the University of Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia), and his Ph.D. degree from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1989. In 1992, he joined the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. In 1998, with Prof. Robert W. Erickson, he co-founded the Colorado Power Electronics Center (CoPEC), and has since served as the CoPEC Co-Director. CoPEC research program in smart power electronics and digital control for high-frequency switched-mode power converters has attracted significant support from numerous industrial sponsors and agencies (NSF, DARPA, ONR, DOEd).

Prof. Maksimovic has published over 170 papers in journals and at professional conferences, and holds over 20 US patents. He received NSF CAREER Award in 1997, Power Electronics Society Transactions Prize Paper Awards in 1997 and 2008, Bruce Holland Excellence in Teaching Award in 2004, and CU Boulder Inventor of the Year Award in 2006. He is the co-author of the textbook Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2nd edition, Springer 2000. He currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE PELS Technical Committee on DC Power Systems, and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He is the General Chair of IEEE COMPEL 2010.

His current research interests include digital control of switched-mode power converters, power electronics for renewable energy sources and energy efficiency, as well as analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits for power management applications.