Engineering Discipline:
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Biography:
Dr Sun is a Chancellor's Fellow (equivalent to AP) in Energy Systems Integration within the School of Engineering. His research focuses on planning and operating low-carbon energy systems with high renewable penetration, using applied data science and advanced optimization techniques. Dr Sun previously worked on building a multi-scale energy system integration architecture for National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) and as a lead researcher on Hydrogen’s Value in the Energy system (HYVE).
Dr Sun has also contributed to Realising Energy Storage Technologies in Low-carbon Energy Systems (RESTLESS) and Adaptation and Resilience In Energy Systems (ARIES).
Dr Sun is holding a visiting research fellowship at UCL.
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Academic Qualifications:
- PhD Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2015
Professional Qualifications and Memberships:
- Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- Member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)
- Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Teaching:
- Hydropower Interdisciplinary Group Design Project [MEng]
- Electrical Engineering Fundamentals of Renewable Energy [MSc]
- MSc Sustainable Energy Systems - Dissertation supervision
- MSc Advanced Power Engineering - Dissertation supervision
Research Interests:
My research activity covers several energy themes including:
- Grid integration of renewable energy
- Multi-vector energy systems integration, including electricity,gas, heat and alternative fuel systems
- Power-to-X and green hydrogen
- Power system planning and operation
- Renewable resource assessment
- Climate change impacts on electricity systems
Specialities:
- Network Integration of DER
- Electricity Network Modelling
- Gas/Hydrogen Network Modelling
- Climate Change Impacts on Renewable Energy
- Optimisation Modelling
- Statistic analysis
- Data Science applications in Power Systems
