Institute for Energy Systems

An underwater view of the turbines in the Flowave tidal and wave tank

The Institute for Energy Systems, IES, is one of seven multi-disciplinary research institutes within the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Led by Professor Vengatesan Venugopal there are seven integrated research areas involving 26 academic staff, 28 research staff and around 70 postgraduate students.

Research Themes

Image of offshore wind turbines at Rampion Wind Farm
all IES research themes

Research Projects

Tidal Turbine
all IES research projects

Our People

Prof Vengatesan Venugopal
Professor and Head of Research Institute
Miss Karen Brocklehurst
Research Institute Services Administrator
all IES staff and students

Seminars

RSE Curious: Engineering approaches in biomedicine
08/08/2022 - 11:30
Frontiers Champions Programme: Multiscale Design for System-Wide Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading
08/06/2022 - 11:00
Equality Matters Seminar - Decolonising the Curriculum
30/05/2022 - 12:00
all IES seminars

PhD Opportunities

Advanced Marine Renewable Energy Harvesting via Added-mass-variation Control
Aerodynamics of high-performance yacht sails
Aerodynamics of the gliding seeds of the Javan cucumber vine
America’s Cup yacht hydrofoils
all IES PhD opportunities

Vacancies

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Engineering Research News

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...more research news

Research Events

Electrochem 2022
Digital Fluid Power Workshop 2022
11th International Conference On Boiling & Condensation Heat Transfer ICBCHT11
Heat Powered Cycles Conference 2023