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Dr Jiabin Jia obtained his BEng (2002) in Electronics Engineering and MSc (2005) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Wuhan University, China. After worked one year in the Hardware R&D department of H3C Technology Co. Ltd, China, Dr Jia started his PhD study supported by the ORSAS scholarship from 2006 and achieved his PhD degree in 2010 at The University of Leeds, UK. Following three years working on an EPSRC project as a Research Fellow, he started to work at the School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh from October 2013.   Dr Jia’s expertise is in the area of sensing physics, electronic instrumentation, process measurement and analysis. The research in Dr Jia’s laboratory takes an approach of synergistic integration of physics, modelling, optimization and design, to provide innovative sensing solutions for various challenging problems.   So far, he has been awarded research funding more than £500k as PI and £2M as Co-I. Dr Jia is maintaining close collaborations with industrial partners. A number of technological breakthroughs were developed, patented and licensed for commercialisation to the world-leading industrial company in process tomography, Industrial Tomography Systems plc (ITS). His work attracted interest from international company. After a worldwide technology tender, Fuji Electric Ltd invested £300K on commissioned research basis to develop a wet gas metering technology. In 2016 and 2018, Dr Jia undertook consultancy work for the National University of Ireland Galway and Pennsylvania State University to provide technical advice. So far, more than 40 peer-reviewed journal and two book chapters has been published. Two patents were granted. Three PhD students have successfully achieved degree under his supervision. At present, he is supervising five PhD students and two PDRAs.

• 2019 Postgraduate Certificate Academic Practice (PgCAP), Univesrity of Edinburgh, UK
• 2010 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
• 2005 Master in Science (MSc), School of Electrical Engineering, Wuhan University, P. R. China
• 2002 Bachelor of Science (BEng), School of Electrical Engineering, Wuhan University, P. R. China

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE)
• Member of consultative scientific panel of Interntional Society for Industrial & Process Tomography
• Associate editor of Measurement Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

• Software and Embedded Systems Laboratory 2 (ELEE08022)
• Digital System Design and Digital System Laboratory 3 (ELEE09035)
• Engineering Mathematics 2B tutorial (SCEE08010)
• Supervision for BEng, MEng, MSc and PhD projects.

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Themis holds the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and is Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers. His work focuses on developing metal-oxide Resistive Random-Access Memory technologies and related applications and is leading an interdisciplinary team comprising 30 researchers with expertise ranging from materials process development to electron devices and circuits and systems for embedded applications. He holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship. He is an Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia, visiting Professor at the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the IET and the Institute of Physics and is also Senior Member of the IEEE. He served as the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation International Consortium for Nanotechnology and Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano- Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS). In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterisation of novel nanodevices in over 21 countries and in 2019 he founded SoneT.ai that is building new power-efficient AI hardware solutions. His contributions in memristive technologies and applications have brought this emerging technology one step closer to the electronics industry for which he was recognised as a 2021 Blavatnik Award UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering.

Istvan Gyongy received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Following a period in industry, where he worked on processors for smartphones and a cloud-connected activity tracking system for dairy farms, he joined the University of Edinburgh. His initial research at the University was on hydrodynamic modelling relating to the development of FloWave, the combined wave and current test facility. His research is now focused on the development of single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cameras and their application in a range of domains including LIDAR and the life sciences.

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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• PhD Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2015

• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

• 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

• 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

Dr Jonathan G. Terry is the Deputy Head of the Engineering Graduate School at the University of Edinburgh.  He joined the School of Engineering in early 1999 as a Post-doctoral Research Associate and later became a Chancellor’s Fellow. He currently lectures in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Discipline teaching undergraduate students in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th year, as well as those within the MSc Electronics programme.

He is based in the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, where his current research activities are in the production of smart sensor systems, exploiting the extensive toolset in place at the fabrication facilities of the Scottish Microelectronics Centre. These involve the development and use of novel fabrication processes and materials, and their integration with post-processed foundry CMOS circuitry. To date, his research has included the development of sensing systems for physical, biological, chemical, medical, astronomical and harsh environment applications.He is a named inventor on three patents and has authored over a hundred journal and conference publications.

Recent and current funded research projects include:

• IMPACT: Implantable Microsystems for Personalised Anti-Cancer Therapy
• New Engineering Concepts from Phase Transitions: A Leidenfrost Engine
• EMBOSS: Enhanced Multiscale Boiling Surfaces - From Fundamentals to Design

• 1993 BEng(hons) Electronic Engineering (UMIST)
• 1994 MSc Microelectronic Materials and Device Technology (UMIST)
• 1998 PhD Solid State Electronics (UMIST)

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of the Technical Committee of IEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures
• Officer of the Scottish Chapter of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS)
• Regional Editor of the IEEE EDS Newsletter (UK, Middle East & Africa)
• Counsellor to the University of Edinburgh IEEE Student Branch

• Course Director: ELEE09021 Microelectronics 3
• Course Director: ELEE10017 Professional Issues for Engineers 4
• Course Director: PGEE11038 Microfabrication Techniques

• BEng
• PhD

• SFHEA
• MIEEE

• MSc (2001), University of Nis, Serbia
• PhD (2004), UMIST, UK

• Member of Joint CIGRE/CIRED WG C4.42 and CIGRE WG C4.63
• Co-chair of two CIGRE/CIRED Joint Work Groups: C4.110 (Voltage Dips) and C4.605 (Load Modelling)
• Advisory Member of IES Controls Protocol Committee
• MIET, SMIEEE
• Several EPSRC, EU, TSB, ETP and DECC Research Projects
• Member of BSI/IEC Committees L/013 (Smart Grids) and GEL/210 (EMC)
• Chair of Task 3: Electric Power Systems Perspective, IEEE PES WG on Sustainable Future Electrical Energy System Design

• MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems, Dissertation Project (PGEE11017)
• Power Systems Engineering and Economics (PGEE11016)
• Power Systems and Machines 4 (ELEE10005)
• Power Systems Engineering 5 (ELEE11054)
• Power Engineering Fundamentals (MSc, PGEE10013)

• Electrical Power Systems
• Distributed Generation
• Modelling of Microgeneration and Small-scale/Medium-scale Distributed Generation
• Illuminating Engineering
• Load Modelling and Demand Side Management
• Power Quality and Reliability/Security Assessment
• Assessment of Steady State and Transient Perfromance of Distribution Networks
• Multi-Vector Energy Systems (Electrical, Heating/Cooling, Transportation...)

• Deputy Programme Director of Sustainable Energy Systems MSc Studies
• Previous Employment: 1992-2001 University of Nis, 2001-2005 University of Manchester/UMIST

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Professor Gareth Harrison holds the Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He has held a number of executive leadership roles in the School of Engineering, most recently as Head of School.

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.

• BEng (Hons) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 1997
• PhD Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2001

• 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, 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)

• Interdisciplinary Group Design Project [MEng]
• MSc Dissertation

• 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)