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bradaighThe Chair of Future Infrastructure is a new post designed to help policymakers address large-scale challenges in transport and utilities. Professor Masterton will oversee a Centre for Future Infrastructure which will draw upon world-leading expertise in fire safety and structural engineering, granular materials, railway engineering, non-destructive testing and large-scale data acquisition and analysis. Professor Masterton will embark on research to aid decision-making on appropriate infrastructure projects. He will also apply his industry experience to direct research into safe and successful project delivery. He also hopes to study infrastructure in Scotland’s urban and rural mixed economy, as a model to help to address problems created by world class cities in other less populated countries.

Background Experience

Until 2015, Professor Masterton was Vice-President of Jacobs Engineering. He is a past president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, past president of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, former chairman of the Construction Industry Council, former Vice Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, and founder and current Chairman of the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. Professor Masterton was the UK Government's project representative on the £15bn Crossrail development in London – Europe’s largest construction project to date. Recently, he was appointed a member of the Independent Assurance Panel for the HS2 high-speed rail link. Professor Masterton brings more than 35 years of industry experience and leadership of major infrastructure design, construction and commissioning to his new post.

• BSc, BA, MSc, DIC

• FREng, FRSE, FICE, FIStructE, FIES, MCIWEM

• OBE, HonDEng, HonDTech

1985, BE, Mechanical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway 1987, MEngSc, Mechanical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway 1991, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, USA

Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Chartered Engineer, Member of Engineers Ireland Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Member of Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE)

Inaugural Sir Bernard Crossland Medal for Engineering Innovation, Engineers Ireland, 2008 Institution of Mechanical Engineers Donald Julius Groen Prize, 2012 Údarás na Gaeltachta / TG4 Gaeltacht Business Award 2007 - Innovation Category Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Award for Successful Licensing from NUI Galway ATRP Project, 2007 Fulbright Scholars Programme Award at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, 1995 Engineers Ireland Smith Testimonial, 1994

I am an Honorary Fellow with the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. My main position is Associate Professor in Power Systems with the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. I am also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Co-Chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society Taskforce on Quantum Computing for Power System Operations. My research is focused on the design of control systems and markets to enable the large-scale integration of distributed power system flexibility.

University of Oxford web page: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/thomas-morstyn

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, 2016.
• BEng in Electrical Engineering with First Class (H1) Honours, University of Melbourne, 2011.

• Senior Member, IEEE
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

• PhD supervision.

• Power system modelling and control
• Electricity market design
• Peer-to-peer energy trading
• Electric vehicle smart charging and vehicle-to-grid
• Microgrid control

If you are interested in collaborating or pursuing a PhD in one of my areas of research interest, please get in touch by email (thomas.morstyn@eng.ox.ac.uk).

Other Information

www.oncphys.ed.ac.uk

• BSc (hons:1st class) Technology with Industrial Studies - CNAA
• PhD Mechanical Engineering (Shape Optimisation) - Edinburgh

• Fellow of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Year 3 - Manufacture 3 (Comuter-aided Design)
• Year 4/5 - Digital Manufacturing 5

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• Director of ShapeSpace Ltd
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