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Professor James Carroll

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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Personal statement

James Carroll is a Professor and former Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering (EEE). James is the Director and PI of the Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures CDT (2019 to 2027), he is the ³Ô¹Ïtv Director and PI of the new EnerHy Wind and Hydrogen CDT (2024-2032), and is the Co-Lead of the Wind Energy and Control (WEC) Group. WEC is one of the largest university based wind energy research groups in the UK with 8 academics and over 35 researches.  

Professor Carroll joined EEE and the Wind Energy and Control Group in 2012 as a Wind Energy Systems CDT PhD student, he secured a Chancellor’s Fellowship in 2018 and was promoted to Professor in 2023. His core research areas include wind turbine reliability/maintenance modelling, novel wind turbine development and data driven failure prediction of wind turbine components. 

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
20/11/2019

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Publications

Li Mingxin, Kikuchi Yuka, Ringsberg Jonas W, Gryllias Konstantinos C, Baraldi Piero, Zio Enrico,
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Vol 235 (2026)
Li Mingxin, Xu Zifei, , Kikuchi Yuka, Dong You, Gryllias Konstantinos C, Baraldi Piero, Zio Enrico,
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Vol 226 (2026)
, , Nejad Amir R,
Forschung im Ingenieurwesen Vol 89 (2025)
, Chou Evan,
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 3131 (2025)
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Energies Vol 18 (2025)
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Ocean Engineering Vol 330 (2025)

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Research Interests

Professor Carroll's research focuses on the wind energy area, both onshore and offshore. He has a particular interest in:

- Novel wind turbine concept development

- Wind turbine reliability

- O&M cost modelling

- Wind Turbine cost of energy modelling

- The impact of turbine drive train selection on reliability and cost

- Wind turbine component condition monitoring

- Wind turbine component failure prediction

- Wind turbine component remaining useful life prediction based on data driven machine learning approaches and physical modelling approaches

- SCADA and Vibration data analytics

Professional Activities

Participant
30/1/2025
Keynote/plenary speaker
2019

Projects

Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Co-investigator) Murnin, Conn (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
Kazemi Amiri, Abbas (Principal Investigator) Carroll, James (Co-investigator) Von Solms, Rohan (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Co-investigator) Burns, Aidan (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Co-investigator) Samiei, Mojgan (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Kazemi Amiri, Abbas (Co-investigator) Stansbury, Isabel (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Carroll, James (Co-investigator) Pollard, Elizabeth (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028

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Contact

Professor James Carroll
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Email: j.carroll@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted