Meet the Team
The Wind Energy and Control Centre (WECC) brings together expertise spanning advanced wind turbine concepts, grid integration and power electronics, reliability and asset management, and experimental validation.
Centre leadership
Academic team
Dr Hong Yue
Stochastic control, optimisation and uncertainty-aware energy systems.
Dr David McMillan
Probabilistic reliability, condition monitoring and asset management.
Dr David Campos Gaona
Advanced control of grid-connected converters and power electronics.
Dr Abbas Kazemi Amiri
Structural dynamics, inverse load identification and fatigue assessment.
Dr Ed Hart
Drivetrain mechanics, main-bearing loads and wind turbine reliability.
Research staff
Dr Luis Recalde-Camacho
Advanced control, MPC and estimation for wind and marine energy systems.
Dr Reza Yazdanpanah
Electrical machine design and electromagnetic modelling.
Dr Laurence Morgan
Aerodynamics and aeroelastic modelling of wind turbines.