Mateja Novak received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Zagreb University, Croatia, in 2014 and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2020. From 2020 to 2023 she was a Postdoc at AAU Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is currently employed as an Assistant Professor at AAU Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark.

She was a visiting researcher at the Chair of Power Electronics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany in 2018 and Danfoss Drives Intelligence, Gråsten, Denmark in 2023. Dr. Novak is the recipient of EPE Outstanding Young EPE Member Award for the year 2019 and 2nd price winner of 2021 IEEE-IES Student and YP Competition.

Her research interests include model predictive control, multilevel converters, machine learning, statistical model checking, reliability of power electronic systems and renewable energy systems.