Academic staff

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

www.carboncapture.eng.ed.ac.uk

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, University of Naples, Italy, 1994
• Laurea summa cum laude in Chemical Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy, 1991

• Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 3 CHEE09011
• Adsorption CHEE11016
• Chemical Engineering Industrial Project 5 CHEE11014
• Chemical Engineering Research Project 5 CHEE11017
• Chemical Engineering Study Project 4 CHEE10009

• Carbon capture
• Adsorption and membrane gas separations
• Diffusion in nanoporous and porous materials
• Fluidization

• Director of Chemical Engineering Discipline
• Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia
• Recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2001)
• Recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2001)
• Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
• Senior Member American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Member International Adsorption Society and British Zeolite Association
• Member of the Directorate of the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage centre
• Research area champion for adsorption and membranes of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre

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

blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar

I am Lecturer in Engineering Management, based in Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Materials and Processes.

I am Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) and of The New Real research programme and creative community.

I research and teach innovation process management, organisational, learning and future design and I coordinate the School of Engineering's Space and Satellite portfolio of projects as well as entrepreneurship and socio-economic research themes within Space Innovation Hub.

I co-coordinate several academic networks, in particular Social Dimensions of Outer Space, Social Network Analysis Scotland, and Social Studies of Outer Space.

You can find out more info on my personal research blog: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar/

• PhD in Science and Technology (2020)
• MSc by Research in Science and Technology (2015)
• MSc in Science and Technology in Society (2014)
• BSc (Hon) Physics (2013)

• Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society
• Fellow of British Interplanetary Society
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy
• Member of the Institute of Physics

I am course organiser of the following courses:

• Technology and Innovation Management 5 / MSc
• Systems Engineering: Thinking and Practice 5 / MSc
• Social Dimensions of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
• Building Near Futures (in Edinburgh Futures Institute)
• Engineering Design 1

I am currently not accepting any new MSc or PhD students as main supervisor.

I am otherwise open to supervising PhD and MSc projects in innovation process management, organisational development, interdisciplinary engineering, futures design, technology strategies and prototyping methodology, especially in the fields of space and satellite and artificial intelligence.

My research centres on innovation management processes, entrepreneurship and organisational learning at the forefront of high-tech (systems) engineering, especially in space and satellite, geoinformation data and artificial intelligence.

I lead the development of NanoSpace Lab, connecting key processes and R&D infrastructure for small-scale Space Industry pathfinder projects.

I also co-lead The New Real programme on Experiential AI at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute and funded by the EPSRC, AHRC, and Scottish Funding Council.

Recent publications can be found at Edinburgh Research Explorer

https://smcdonagh.github.io/

www.ewireless.eng.ed.ac.uk

• BEng
• PhD

• Senior Member of The Institution for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE)
• Fellow of the Institution for Engineering and Technology (FIET)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)

• Embedded and Wireless Systems - MEng (year 5) and MSc
• Radio Frequency Engineering - Year 4
• Engineering Software -Year 3
• Digital System Design - Year 3
• Coordinator of MEng Programme
• Leader Digital Teaching Subject Group

• High Performance Reconfigurable Architectures
• Low Power Design techniques and strategies.
• Reliable Operating System and Software for Reconfigurable Systems
• Positioning and Location Indoors and in Urban canyons
• Use of sensors for positioning, localisation and tracking.
• Use of wireless technologies for positioning, localisation and tracking.
• Smart Antenna and Radio Frequency (RF) Systems
• RF MEMS devices such as switches and phase shifters
• Design for Mission Critical and Harsh environments
• Evolvable, bioinspired, and adaptive hardware and software systems.
• Multi-objective optimisation.

• Member of the IEEE Executive Technical Committee for VLSI Systems and Applications
• Leader of Embedded Wireless, and Wearable Sensor Systems Group
• Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer sensewhere Ltd.
• Co-Founder Sofant Technolgies

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.

• PhD, Structural Engineering, Queen's University (Canada), 2003
• MSc (Eng), Structural Engineering, Queen's University (Canada), 1999
• BEng, Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, 1997

Engineering Education

I have an ongoing interest in improving student ownership of and engagement in education in engineering, and have been involved in various engineering design, professional skills development, and curriculum reform initiatives.