Dr Mohamed Dahidah
Senior Lecturer in Power Electronics

Degree Programme Director

Areas of expertise:

• Advanced Power Electronics Conversion Systems
• Solid State Transformers (SST)
• Multilevel converters
• Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE)
• HVDC and FACTS based Converters
• DC Fast chargers
• EV Battery chargers

Dr Haris Patsios
Senior Lecturer in Power Systems

Areas of expertise:

• Network operation and control methodologies
• Future power systems
• Integration of electrical storage for enabling low carbon transition
• Renewable energy systems
• Power electronic converters, control and operation
• Electric vehicles

Professor Barrie Mecrow
Professor of Electrical Power

Areas of expertise:

• Novel electrical machines
• Power electronic controllers
• Electromagnetics
• Switched Reluctance Machine (SRMs)
• Fault tolerant electrical machines
• Drives for safety critical systems

Dr Matthew Armstrong
Senior Lecturer in Control of Electrical Power

Areas of expertise:

• Power electronics
• Advanced digital control of electrical power systems
• Design of novel power converter topologies
• Real-time digital control of power electronic converters
• Control of electric drives
• System modelling: system identification/parameter estimation
• Hardware in the Loop (HiL) emulation

Dr Nick Baker
Senior Lecturer in Electrical Power

Areas of expertise:

• Electrical machine design for unusual and emerging technologies
• Modelling, fabrication and testing
• Renewable energy
• Permanent magnet machines
• Linear machines

Dr Glynn Atkinson
Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

Areas of expertise:

• Electrical machine design and manufacture
• Soft magnetic composites in electrical machines
• Fault tolerant electrical machines for aerospace applications
• Design analysis and optimisation of electrical machines

Dr Andrew Smith
Lecturer in Electrical Power

Areas of expertise:

• Control of electric drives
• Sensorless control of AC machines
• Wind power generation
• Photovoltaics

Dr Neil Wade
Senior Lecturer in Power Systems

Areas of expertise:

• Electricity distribution networks
• Distributed energy resources
• Energy storage
• Power system control

Professor Janusz Bialek
Professor of Power and Energy Systems

Areas of expertise:

• Application of advanced mathematical methods to address techno-economic problems of sustainable power supply
• Technical and economic integration of renewable generation in power systems
• Smart grids
• Power system dynamics
• Power markets
• Prevention of power blackouts

Dr Salaheddine Ethni
Lecturer in Electrical Power

Areas of expertise:

• Nature-inspired optimization algorithms
• Battery of electric vehicles modelling/management and control
• Control of electric drives
• System identification (parameter estimation) of power electronic systems
• Electric power generation
• Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of electrical machines
• Power electronic converters
• Adaptive control of power electronic systems
• Stand-alone and grid-connected PV systems