HAPIWEC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Head of the Wind Energy and Control Centre
Professor Bill Leithead is the head of the Wind Energy and Control Centre (WECC) at the University of Strathclyde. He has over 30 years' experience in control of renewable energy devices and is also the director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind and Marine Energy Systems & Structures.
His research interests include modelling and control of wind turbines and wind farms, and other renewable energy devices, conceptual design of novel renewable energy devices and digitalisation of offshore energy.
Dr Adam Stock is a Research Fellow and a Research Co-Investigator on the HAPiWEC project, working at the university of Strathclyde. Adam completed his PhD in control in 2015 after which he worked in industry for three years. During this time, he developed the Integrated Marine Point Absorber Control Tool (IMPACT), a MATLAB toolbox for the design of controllers for WECs. He is leading Work Package 2 "Optimal Velocity Tracking Control for WECs". He also has a strong interest in wind turbine and wind farm control and, outside of research, enjoys playing cricket (badly), playing the guitar (badly) and coaching his children's rugby teams.
Job Titles:
- Chancellor 's Fellow
- Co - Investigator
Dr Brian G. Sellar is a Chancellor's Fellow in Marine Renewable Energy and a Co-Investigator on the HAPiWEC project, working at The University of Edinburgh. Brian completed his PhD in exploratory and experimental sensing for wave energy applications in 2012 after which he continued to work on advanced sensing on a flagship tidal energy research project in partnership with tidal developers, academia and industry as a postdoctoral researcher, and latterly as Technical Lead (www.redapt.eng.ed.ac.uk). Since 2015 he has coordinated multiple tank-testing projects involving instrumented scale models of tidal energy devices, including flow-mapping of the ambient and device-affected flow field. Brian has also led multi-year field measurement campaigns measuring waves, currents and turbulence in the UK, USA and Europe (www.realtide.eu) .
Job Titles:
- Co - Investigator
- University of Strathclyde Chancellor
Dr David Campos-Gaona is a University of Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow (Lecturer) at electronic & electrical engineering department and member of the WECC (Wind Energy and Control Group). Over the course of his career, David has focused his research efforts on the improvement of production, transmission, and distribution of electric energy by integrating power electronics into the power systems, with a strong reliance on prototype development and digital control to validate the proposed solutions. He has collaborated in industrial prototype development and consultancy activities for companies in Mexico, USA, Canada, and the UK. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has more than 40 refereed publications, including 24 journal articles and one book. Within HAPiWEC, David leads Work Package 3 "Rapid Prototyping to Enable Controllable WECs".
D Campos-Gaona, R Pena-Alzola, JL Monroy-Morales, M Ordonez, (2018) "Fast selective harmonic mitigation in multifunctional inverters using internal model controllers and synchronous reference frames", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 64 (8), 6338-6349
Job Titles:
- Co - Investigator
- Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics
Dr David Forehand is a Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics and Fluid Dynamics at The University of Edinburgh. He is also a Co-Investigator on the HAPiWEC project. David has over 10 years' of experience in the numerical and physical modelling of single (including rigid-body, multi-body and deformable) Wave Energy Converters (WECs) and WEC arrays. He was the principal Edinburgh researcher on the PolyWEC project and was responsible for the numerical and physical (in wave tanks) modelling of WECs equipped with Dielectric Elastomer Generator (DEG) PTOs. David was also Edinburgh PI on the three follow-on WES funded projects investigating WECs with DEG PTOs. He has more than 60 refereed publications, including 24 journal articles and one book chapter. Within HAPiWEC, David leads Work Package 4 "Numerical Modelling".
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh
Dr Peter McCallum is a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh with a background in hydrodynamic modelling of wave energy converters. Since finishing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2017, he has taken a particular interest in research software development, having built and deployed a number of desktop and web applications. A big part of this work has been around the Python-based web framework Django, with example web platforms including tidalenergydata.org. Peter brings a number of core skills to the HAPiWEC project from his experience around numerical modelling and software development, including testing, server deployment management, web security and data protection, relational database design, interface design, performance optimisation, and underlying numerical model design.
Dr Reza Yazdanpanah received his Ph.D. degree in electrical power engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. His research interests include nonlinear control of electric drives, electric machine design, and power electronics. He is currently with the Wind Energy & Control Centre, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He contributes to the development of digital control, remote access interface, and power take-off hardware test bed for HAPiWEC.
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde
Dr Seyed Abolfazl Mortazavi Zadeh is a research associate at the University of Strathclyde with a background in power electronics and electrical machines. In 2020, he completed a PhD program at the Isfahan University of Technology, Iran. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked on LLC resonant converters based on GaN-HEMTs at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy. In the department of electronics and electrical engineering, he is part of the wind energy and control team since June 2022. For the HAPiWEC project, Seyed worked on remote interfacing and control of wave energy converters.
Job Titles:
- Co - Investigator
- FloWave 's Senior Experimental Officer and Co - Investigator
Dr Tom Davey is FloWave's Senior Experimental Officer and Co-Investigator on the HAPiWEC project at The University of Edinburgh. Tom completed his PhD experimentally studying wave responses at vertical breakwaters in 2010 before moving onto investigating site characterisation and resource assessment for the wave energy sector in the EU FP7 EquiMar project. Since 2013 he has led the engineering team at the FloWave wave-current test tank, delivering a multitude of projects for industrial and academic projects in the offshore renewable energy sector. Within HAPiWEC Tom leads Work Package 5 "Physical Testing".
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh
Dr. Alexandra Price is a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh with a background in experimental modelling of wave energy converters. Since finishing her PhD on wave energy control theory at the University of Edinburgh in 2009, she has worked principally in commercial R&D of wave energy. She conducted field trials and tank testing for AWS on the CLAM concept. She has a personal research blog which have led to several collaborations, including working for Jochem Weber on structured innovation, archiving the Edinburgh Wave Energy Group's work, and her last project prior to HAPiWEC, CEORL, which was funded to Stage 3 by the Wave Energy Scotland Control call. CEORL investigated the application of reinforcement learning to control of wave energy converters.
Job Titles:
- Chairman in Renewable Energy
- Co - Investigator
Prof Alasdair McDonald is the Chair in Renewable Energy Technology in the Institute for Energy Systems and Mechanical Engineering Discipline, at University of Edinburgh.
In his research he works on wind turbine powertrain and wave energy powertrain modelling, design, optimisation, reliability and condition monitoring.