Professor of Agile Energy Systems and Director of Internationalisation (Students), responsible for the development of international educational partnerships as well as the recruitment and support of international students at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh. Director of the MSc programmes in Electrical & Advanced Power Engineering. Visiting Professor at the China-UK Low Carbon College at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. My research interests include modelling and control of Renewable Energy Conversion including marine, wind and solar, Distributed Generation, Smart Grids, Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency. 20+ years of research experience in the areas of Energy & Power Systems, during which I have worked as a researcher, co-investigator and leader for large, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research consortia and have collaborated with industry leaders such as Scottish Power, Scottish & Southern Energy, E-on and more. Principal Investigator of the EPSRC-funded UK Centre for Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy Generation (CAMREG) and the UK-India collaborative project on Data-Driven Intelligent Energy Management for Environmentally Sustainable Energy Access (D-DIEM). Investigator in several major projects including the EPSRC Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI), the UK Centre for Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA Hub), the EU FP7 DTOCEAN, the FP7 ITN ADVANTAGE and the EPSRC SUPERGEN Marine projects, with a total budget in excess of £40M. Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of the IET and an active STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Ambassador for East Scotland.Specialties: Electrical power system modelling & control, micro & smart grids, demand side management, renewable energy conversion including wind, hydro, solar, and marine, industrial control, embedded systems.