Meet the Team

The Wind Energy and Control (WEC) Group brings together expertise spanning advanced wind turbine concepts, grid integration and power electronics, reliability and asset management, and experimental validation.

Centre leadership

Professor James Carroll

Wind turbine reliability, offshore O&M analytics and condition monitoring.

Co-Director Reliability analytics Offshore O&M

Professor Olimpo Anaya-Lara

Power system dynamics and control of wind generation for grid support.

Co-Director Power system stability DFIG control

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.

Emeritus Professor Bill Leithead

Wind turbine and wind farm control; founded WEC’s wind energy research stream in 1988.

Research Professor Mike Grimble

Founded Strathclyde’s Industrial Control Centre in 1981; robust and nonlinear industrial control.

Research Professor David Infield

Wind energy systems, renewable integration and wind turbine wake modelling.

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.

CDT PhD Researchers

PhD researchers across the WAMSS and EnerHy Centres for Doctoral Training.

Administration

Drew Smith

Administrative Officer for WEC and the Wind Energy CDTs.