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Our 2026 Committees

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