Energy Systems

Currently working with the Policy and Innovation Group within the Institute for Energy Systems, on a range of UK and European projects. Donald's research topics include techno-economic analysis and cost reduction, lifecycle assessment, technology commercialisation, and the research & innovation requirements for the ocean energy sector.

Donald completed an Engineering Doctorate, with research on testing renewable energy devices in a combined wave-current environment at the University of Edinburgh's FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility, as part of the Industrial Doctorate Centre of Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE). His background is as a civil engineer/hydrologist, with over nine years experience in small hydropower schemes and renewable energy, flood risk assessment and flood management, plus coastal engineering

Doctor of Engineering (EngD) in Offshore Renewable Energy. The Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, and Exeter, as part of the Industrial Doctorate Centre of Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE)

Master of Engineering (MEng) in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

For my publications, please see my Research Gate profile, ORCID, or PURE below

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• PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London (UK), 2013, awarded the “Eryl Cadwaladr Davies” Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department.
• MSc Control Systems from Imperial College London (UK), 2008, obtained with Merit.
• Diplôme "Ingénieur en Électronique" from ENSEA (Cergy, France), 2008.
• Diplôme Universitaire Technologique in "Génie électrique et Informatique Industrielle" from Institut Universitaire de Belfort-Montbéliard (Belfort, France), 2005.

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); societies: PELS, PESand CS
• Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

• Advanced Control for Electrical Power Engineering [MSc]
• Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grids [4/MSc]

• Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and Member of the Energy Institute
• 2015 - 2019: Chair for the IChemE's Scottish Members Group

Personal Tutor and Dissertation Supervisor for the MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems

Lecturer in Chemical Enginering, currently teaching part or all of the following courses:

• Process Safety and Environmental Issues in Chemical Engineering 3 (part)
• Chemical Engineering Design 3 (part)
• Chemical Engineering Desgin Projects 4 (group supervisor)
• Sustainable Energy Systems Dissertation (MSc), projects supervision

• "Appropriate" Engineering for development, including in the areas of Food, Energy and Water. For more detail, please visit www.susdev.eng.ed.ac.uk 
• Conversion and storage of renewable energies: Hydrogen; biofuels and biochar; compressed air; CO₂ utilization

• For more info: Please visit my personal webpage.

Munawir is a PhD student at the Institute for Energy Systems, working with Prof. Vengatesan Venugopal as his Primary Supervisor, and Dr. Encarni Medina-Lopez as his Secondary Supervisor. His current research is about the coastal hydrodynamics at Montrose Bay and Montrose Tidal Inlet System, Scotland, UK. He is using numerical modelling using Delft3D-4 and Delft3D-Flexible Mesh in an attempt to understand the tidal hydrodynamics and the significance of other forcings (wave-, wind-, and density-driven currents) at Montrose Bay and further a Montrose-like inlet system.

He received his Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, in 2017. In 2019, he came to the University of Edinburgh to conduct his MSc by Research with Prof. Vengatesan Venugopal, sponsored by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency (LPDP). In January 2021, he was awarded with MSc by Research 2021, and later that year, he continued to pursue a PhD degree at the University of Edinburgh under the DTP Studentship award. In August 2023, Munawir attended the 40th IAHR World Congress in Vienna, Austria and was listed as the finalist of the 15th John F. Kennedy Student Paper Competition.

• MSc by Research, Energy Systems. The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 2021.
• BSc, Ocean Engineering. Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. 2017.

• Student Member of the IAHR - International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research
• Student Member of the ICE - Institution of Civil Engineers
• Student Member of the Challenger Society of Marine Science

Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Level:

• Dynamics 2

• Tidal and Wave Hydrodynamics
• Coastal Processes
• Tidal Energy
• Numerical Modelling