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Home / Our people / Professor Thomas Morstyn

Professor Thomas Morstyn

Tutorial Fellow in Engineering

Associate Professor in Power Systems

thomas.morstyn@eng.ox.ac.uk

Thomas received his BEng (Hon.) degree from the University of Melbourne in 2011, and his PhD degree from the University of New South Wales in 2016, both in electrical engineering. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and an EPSRC research fellow at the University of Oxford. Prior to undertaking his PhD, he also worked as an electrical engineer in Rio Tinto’s Technology and Innovation group.

Thomas is now Associate Professor in Power Systems with Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science and a Tutorial Fellow with Hertford College. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, co-chairs the IEEE Power & Energy Society Taskforce on Quantum Computing for Power System Operations and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh. His research is focused on the design of control systems and markets to enable the large-scale integration of distributed power system flexibility.

Undergraduate teaching

Thomas teaches first year engineering tutorials on electrical circuits and differential equations, and second year tutorials on energy systems, electromagnetism and computer engineering.

Within the Department of Engineering Science, Thomas teaches a fourth-year course on advanced electrical power networks, organises the second-year electrical machines laboratories and supervises final year projects.

Graduate teaching

Thomas supervises DPhil students and dissertation projects for Oxford’s Energy Systems MSc.

  • Research interests

    Power systems are undergoing a fundamental transition due to the rapid adoption of distributed renewable generation, the electrification of heating and transport, and the new availability of customer-level sensing, communications and control. Thomas’s research focuses on the design of control systems and markets which can manage this transition by integrating distributed flexibility at scale into power system operation and design. This is underpinned by work in systems modelling, multi-agent control, optimisation and mechanism design. Thomas also collaborates with economists, computer scientists and social scientists to incorporate new advances from areas including game theory, machine learning and quantum computing, and to study the wider impacts and policy implications of new power system technologies.

  • Publications

    A full list of publications is available at Google Scholar

     

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