Engineering Discipline:
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Biography:
Professor Gareth Harrison is Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering and Deputy Head of the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Doctorate from the same institution.
He leads research activity across a wide area including integration of renewable energy within multi-vector energy systems, renewable resource assessment, climate change impacts on energy systems; and carbon footprints of energy systems.
He is Associate Director of the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI), was previously Principal Investigator of the Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems project and is currently a Co-investigator on a range of EPSRC and InnovateUK projects covering energy storage, hydrogen, conventional generation and offshore renewable energy.
Professor Harrison is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and an Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Academic Qualifications:
- BEng (Hons) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 1997
- PhD Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2001
Professional Qualifications and Memberships:
- Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
- Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
- Emeritus Member, RSE Young Academy of Scotland
- Inquiry Committee Member, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Energy Inquiry (2017 - )
- Member of Working Group, Royal Academy of Engineering, Wind Power Inquiry (2012 – 2014)
- Editorial board member of the International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems
- International Advisory Board, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment
Teaching:
- Interdisciplinary Group Design Project [MEng]
- Sustainable Energy Group Design Project [MSc]
- MSc Dissertation
Research Interests:
My research activity covers a wide range of areas including:
- Grid integration of renewable energy
- Renewable resource assessment using high performance computing
- Climate change impacts on electricity systems
- Multi-vector energy systems/energy systems integration
- Carbon footprints of energy systems
Specialities:
- Renewable resource assessment
- Network Integration of Renewable Energy
- Multi-vector energy systems/energy systems integration
- Climate Change Impacts on Renewable Energy
- Life cycle assessment (or carbon footprints)
