Engineering Discipline:
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Biography:
Professor Gareth Harrison is Head of the School of Engineering and Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Doctorate from the same institution.
His research is focused on renewable energy integration within energy systems and he has built a reputation for the application of meteorological modelling and optimisation methods for energy network operation and planning. He is currently a Co-investigator on several EPSRC and Ofgem/InnovateUK projects covering energy storage and power networks. He was Associate Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (2016-2022), Principal Investigator of the EPSRC Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems project (2012-2015), examining climate impacts on energy system resilience, and has been Co-Investigator on many UK and EU consortia.
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 is an Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He was a founding member and now Emeritus member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland.
Academic Qualifications:
- BEng (Hons) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 1997
- PhD Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2001
Professional Qualifications and Memberships:
- Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
- Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- 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)
- Associate Editor/Editorial Panel, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Energy (2002 - )
- Editorial Board Member, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (2018 –)
- Editorial Board Member, IET Energy Systems Integration (2018 –)
- Editorial board member, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (2005 - )
- Guest Editor, Proc. IMechE, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, ‘Evaluating Energy Technologies for the Net Zero 'Greenhouse Gas' Transition: From Here to 2050’ (2023)
- Guest Editor, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, ‘Special Issue in marine and ocean energy dedicated to the work and memory of Professor Ian Bryden’ (2019)
- International Advisory Board, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment (2013 - 2019)
- Associate Editor, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment (2010 –2013)
Teaching:
- Interdisciplinary Group Design Project [MEng]
- 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)
