Ndukwe Ibiam is a professional Power System Engineer with over 12 years of experience in the energy sector. He has dedicated his career to enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of electrical networks and focuses on smart grid reliability, renewable energy integration, and resilient electrical network operations.
He holds a Master’s degree in Automation and Control from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. He is currently working as a System Forecasting Engineer at one of the UK’s major Electricity Distribution Company, Northern PowerGrid.
Sequel to his master’s degree, he contributed as a Research Assistant, where he furthered research on the design of an adaptive battery control system for priority load management of critical grids. And in the last decade, he has been deeply involved in different roles in the energy sector. As an Electrical Project Engineer, where he engaged his expertise in evaluating grid connection options and implementing intelligent energy management systems for renewable assets. Also, as a Protection, Control and Metering engineer in one of the major energy distribution companies in Nigeria. His industrial journey started when he was an industrial trainee with the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) which he completed with exceptional records and achievements.
He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a founding partner of an NGO that is focused in youths in STEM called, Youths for Rural Education and Job Creation Initiative (Y4RED); where he helps to hone the skills of young high school graduates to fully explore their STEM potential.
Prof. Mohammad Abusara received his BEng degree from Birzeit University, Palestine, in 2000 and his PhD degree from the University of Southampton in 2004, both in Electrical Engineering.
His PhD was concerned with control of grid-connected inverters and was sponsored by Bowman Power Group Ltd in Southampton. He worked for Bowman Power until 2010 during which he led the development of a number of commercial products including a novel interleaved grid-connected inverter, line interactive uninterruptable power supply, AC microgrids, converters for hybrid vehicles and sensorless drives for high-speed machines.
He joined the University of Exeter in 2010 leading the microgrids research activity and acting as Director of Post Graduate Research in the Engineering department. To date he has obtained research grant income of c. £2.1m from Research Councils and industry, and published over 100 papers and a monograph, supervised 12 PhD students to completion and currently supervising 7 PhD students.
In 2014 he founded HiT Power Ltd (HPL) to commercialise his work in Power Electronics. HPL has developed a cost effective, efficient and reliable 100kW converter for battery to grid applications. A number of those converters are currently installed at the Royal Mint, Portsmouth International Port and industrial estates in South Wales.
Dr Mohammad Moghimi Ardekani (BSc, MSc, PgCHPE, PhD, CEng, MIMechE, MEPC, FHEA, Hon. MIEO) is the Associate Professor of Clean Energy Technologies University of Staffordshire and has been actively involved in the design and optimisation of new technologies and devices in the fields of renewable energy (solar thermal technologies in particular), energy storage, and multiphase-based (including nanofluid) heat sinks. In that regard, he has published 70 articles in top peer-reviewed journals and prestigious conference proceedings, two books, two book chapters and a webinar in collaboration with different research institutes and companies around the world including: Imperial College London (UK), The University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Nottingham (UK), DLR-institute of solar research (Germany), SOLASTOR (Australia), University of Clarkson (USA), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), University of Pretoria (South Africa) and etc.
He actively contributed in proposal writing, securing research grants and technical management and delivery of over 2m funded projects in those fields with over £600k attributed to his institutions, in combined.
In addition to those academic experiences, he has gained more than 4 years of industrial experiences in designs and simulations of equipment in different plants (Solar thermal, Oil, Gas and Petrochemical plants). He was involved in different industrial projects and conducted various research projects for R&D departments of different international companies e.g. DLR-institute of solar research (Germany), SOLASTOR (Australia) and etc.
His scientific activities earned him the international Green Talent Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) which introduced him as top young scientist in Green Energy in 2015. His research activity rated him as Promising Young Researcher (Y2 rating) by National Research Foundation, South Africa. He is Charted Engineer, Member of IMechE, fellow of Higher Education Academy and member of various professional institutes and societies.
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