Energy Systems

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2010 Dissertation: Transport Phenomena in Cathode Catalyst Layer of PEM Fuel Cells (Advisor: Prof Xianguo Li)
• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, 2003 Dissertation: Electrostatic Double Layer Interactions in Confined and Many-Body Geometries (Advisor: Prof Subir Bhattacharjee)
• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh, 2001 Thesis: Elastic-Plastic Behaviour of a Circular Rod under Combined Torque and Tension (Supervisor: Prof Abu Rayhan Md. Ali)
• BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh, 1998 Thesis: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of a Solar Water Heater (Supervisor: Prof Md. Imtiaz Hossain)

Editorships Associate Editor in Electrochemical Engineering, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering (2022–date) Associate Editor, Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage (2021–date) Associate Editor in Fuel Cells, Electrolyzers and Membrane Reactors, Frontiers in Energy Research (2020–date)

Guest Editor for the special issue: Multiphysics, Multiphase, and Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Porous Media in Electrochemical Energy Systems, Frontiers in Energy Research (2023) Lead Guest Editor for the special issue: Battery Management in Electric Vehicles: Current Status and Future Trends, Batteries (2022–2023) Lead Guest Editor of a special issue on Advanced Energy Materials and Research, Energies (2020–2021)

Editorial Board Member for section Battery Performance, Ageing, Reliability and Safety, Batteries (2022–date) Editorial Board Member of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2022–date) Editorial Board Member for section D1: Advanced Energy Materials, Energies (2019–2023) Editorial Board Member for section Inventions and Innovation in Energy and Thermal/Fluidic Science, Inventions (2018–date)

Advisory Board Member, Challenges, MDPI (2020–date)

• Thermodynamics 4
• Professional Issues for Mechanical Engineers 3
• Sustainable Energy Systems Dissertation
• Mechanical Engineering Project 4

I am an electrical power engineer by training, holding the Personal Chair of Agile Energy Systems at the School of Engineering of the University of Edinburgh.

As a member of the Institute for Energy Systems I lead the Agile Energy Systems Research Group, conducting interdisciplinary research in the areas of renewable energy conversion and integration, smart grids, and robotics and smart materials for energy applications. Our group currently comprises 9 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers and has already graduated an additional 10 PhDs. Our research has generated ~100 peer-reviewed publications. 

My teaching includes courses on renewable energy, power and control engineering and research methods. I have a strong track record in developing and delivering courses and programme curricula at both under- and postgraduate levels.

My administrative roles include the School's Directorship of Internationalisation - Students, responsible for the strategic development and delivery of the School's international academic partnerships, while I am also the founding Programme Director of the MSc in Electrical Power Engineering and the 2-year MSc in Advanced Power Engineering.

• BEng Electronics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete (TEIC), 1999
• Postgraduate Diploma in Communications, Control & DSP, University of Strathclyde, 2000
• PhD in Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2005

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

Control & Instrumentation Engineering 3Course Organiser 3rd Year Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Solar Energy & Photovoltaic SystemsCourse Organiser MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems / Electrical & Advanced Power Engineering

Solar Energy Conversion 5Course Organiser 5th Year MEng Undergraduate Programmes

Engineering Research Methods with Grand ChallengeCourse Organiser (2018-2021) Core course for all Engineering MScs

• Power System Modelling
• Distributed Generation
• Renewable Energy
• Smart Grids & Demand Side Management

Since 2018 I have been a Visiting Professor at the China-UK Low Carbon College of the Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, China. I am currently Associate Editor of the IET Smart Grid Journal and Member of the Editorial Board of the MDPI EnergiesJournal. I have also been Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Marine Energy, the Special Issue on Data-Driven Methods in Modern Power Engineering and the Special Issue on Advances in Electrical Power Conversion for Energy, Transportation and Industry Applications of the MDPI Energies Journal.

I am a Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of the IET. I am also an active STEM Ambassador for East Scotland, having organised several events promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics to the public and especially primary and high school children, specifically in the areas of renewable energy and robotics.

I'm a Research Associate in Energy Market Integration for Grid-Scale Storage at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh. Prior to this, I’ve been a Faculty Member at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sirjan University of Technology, Iran, from Jun. 2017. I have Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Power Systems from the University of Isfahan, Iran obtained in Oct. 2016 and my thesis title was “Generation Scheduling of a Virtual Power Plant Considering Industrial Microgrids in Power Systems”. My Ph.D. dissertation discusses about a transmission power network that is actively working under a regional electric company, and different VPPs within this system are included various types of distributed generation units like wind powers and demand response loads. The purpose was focused on industrial VPP and its management under a stochastic environment in a short-term power market. From Oct. 2015 to Apr. 2016, as a visiting researcher, I’ve worked on VPP self-scheduling problem in a power system and robust optimization method and I’ve also worked on day-ahead and intraday power markets of MIBEL (Iberian Electricity Market) in Electrical Engineering Department of Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain. I’ve been also involved as PI or Co-PI in 5 research projects within the power and energy systems field funded through universities or companies.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, 2016.
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Kashan, Iran, 2011.
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran, 2008.

Dr Andrew Lyden is a Lecturer in Energy System Economics and Management within the Institute for Energy Systems. His research focus is on advancing open-source energy system science including data, models, and outputs. He is working on research and consultancy projects related to net-zero electricity markets, integrated multi-energy (electricity, heat, transport, food, water) markets and models, decarbonised district heating and cooling, and long-term energy storage technologies (e.g. underground thermal energy storage).

As part of his work on the INTEGRATE project (which focussing on modelling of the integration of multiple energy sources with seasonal thermal energy storage to decarbonise heat), he developed a transmission network model of the GB power system, PyPSA-GB, which can model historical years and National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios. During his PhD he worked on modelling local energy systems with particular interest on the optimal design and control of heat pumps and thermal storage. As part of this work he developed the open-source tool PyLESA (Python for Local Energy Systems Analysis). He has previously worked on numerous research and industry projects including topics such as future district heating design, community energy masterplanning, and virtual power plants.

Publications.

• PhD in Renewable Energy Systems, University of Strathclyde, UK
• MSc in Renewable Energy Systems & the Environment, University of Strathclyde, UK
• BSc in Physics, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Course organiser - Energy & Environmental Economics MSc
• Supervisor - Sustainable Energy Systems Disseration MSc

An Electrical and Mechanical Engineer by training, Camilla now teaches about sustainable energy and researches the environmental impacts of energy. Currently this mostly involves developing better tools and techniques to analyse the climate change impact or carbon footprint of changes to the electricity system: whether new renewable energy developments, new transmission lines or even new market operations.

Camilla is a Co-Investigator in the EnergyREV project, leading the work package on developing a Multi-Criteria Assessment tool for Smart Local Energy Systems. She is also the Deputy Co-ordinator on the NEWEST-CCUS project, and is leading a multi-disciplinary international team on the specific task of robustly quantifying the atmospheric-carbon-reduction-potential of waste-to-energy plants with carbon capture and storage.

Camilla is also a keen advocate for diversity in Engineering. She is the founding chair of the School's Molly Fergusson Initiative, and was named one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering - Sustainability in 2020. 

Her pronouns are she/her.

• PhD Carbon and Energy Payback of Variable Renewable Generation, University of Edinburgh, 2014
• MEng(Hons) Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2004

• Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, MIET
• Winner Top 50 Women in Engineering 2020 - Sustainability

• MSc Sustainable Energy Systems - Dissertation supervision
• Technologies for Sustainable Energy - Course-organiser and lecturer

• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and carbon footprinting
• Marginal carbon analysis
• Renewable resource assessment
• Daylighting analysis