2026 Steering Committee
Barrie Mecrow
Professor of Electrical Power, Newcastle University, UK
Phil Mellor
Professor of Electrical Engineering, School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
Pat Wheeler
Director of the University of Nottingham's Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research, University of Nottingham, UK
Martin Foster
Professor of Energy Storage and Conversion, University of Sheffield, UK
Frede Blaabjerg
Professor, The Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jiang Xiaohua
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Will Drury
Interim Exec Director, Digital and Technologies | Challenge Director - Driving the Electric Revolution (DER), Innovate UK/ UKRI,UK
Sandy Smith
Professor, School of Engineering, University of Manchester, UK
2026 Organising Committee
Yunjie Gu
Assistant Professor - Power Systems, Imperial College London, UK
Panos Panagiotou
Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK
Sinisa Durovic
Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK
Linnan Sun
Research Fellow , University of Nottingham, UK
Xu (Daisy) Deng
NUAcT Fellow in Electrical Power, Newcastle University, UK
Luca Peretti
Associate Professor - Electrical Machines and Drives KTH, Sweden
João Filipe
Pereira Fernandes, Assistant Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Pooya Davari
Head of Section for Applied Power Electronic Systems. Aalborg University Denmark
Simon Hart
Director, and CTIO, InnCat, UK
Derrick Holliday
Technical Director, DER-IC, UK
Zhigang Sun
Technical Specialist in Power Electronics, Rolls-Royce, UK
Nika Piekut
Power Electronics Engineer, Nidec Drives, UK
Marc Henry
Head of Innovation, Unipart, UK