Professor William Leithead
Emeritus Professor
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
My areas of expertise are Control Engineering and Wind Energy Systems with particular focus on the conceptual design of wind turbines and wind turbine and farm control system design. My research leadership roles include head of the Wind Energy Research Group at 勛圖tv and Director of the Industrial Control Centre. The Wind Energy Research Group has more than 70 PhD students and Research Assistants. Additionally, I am Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind Energy Systems, which is hosted by 勛圖tv, and its successor, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind and Marine Energy Systems, and I Chair the EPSRC Supergen Wind Energy Hub. I am, also, on the Executive Committee of the EPSRC Industrial Doctoral Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy, which is a partnership between 勛圖tv, Edinburgh and Exeter Universities.
I am actively involved with many national and international wind energy research and policy committees including the European Academy of Wind Energy Executive Committee, European Energy Alliance Joint Programme Wind Steering Committee and ORECatapult Research Advisory Group.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 20/6/2018
Publications
- Sivakumar Nitin, , , Hur Sung-Ho
- Ocean Engineering Vol 352 (2026)
- Cole Matthew, Stock Adam,
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 3131 (2025)
- , , Camciuc Arthur, , , Feuchtwang Julian
- Energies Vol 18 (2025)
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- Wind Energy Science Vol 10, pp. 381-399 (2025)
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- Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 2767 (2024)
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- Wind Energy Vol 27, pp. 569-582 (2024)
Research Interests
- In Control his research interests include linear systems theory and analysis and nonlinear system modelling and identification;
- In Wind Energy his research interests include the dynamic analysis of wind turbines and wind farms, their dynamic modelling and simulation, control system design and optimisation.
Professional Activities
- Chair
- 11/4/2016
- Chair
- 29/2/2016
- Member
- 19/1/2016
- Contributor
- 19/11/2015
- Organiser
- 18/11/2015
- Member
- 11/2015
Projects
- Hart, Edward John (Principal Investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator) Fojcik, Piotr (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Infield, David (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Leithead, Bill (Principal Investigator) Campos-Gaona, David (Co-investigator) McDonald, Alasdair (Co-investigator) Stock, Adam (Research Co-investigator)
- 06-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
- Leithead, Bill (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Co-investigator) Carroll, James (Co-investigator) Jamieson, Peter (Co-investigator) Stock, Adam (Co-investigator) Williamson, Jack (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Stock, Adam (Principal Investigator) Kazemi Amiri, Abbas (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2020 - 15-Jan-2022
- Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Leithead, Bill (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Campos-Gaona, David (Co-investigator) Carroll, James (Co-investigator) Jamieson, Peter (Co-investigator) Kolios, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Kolios, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator) McDonald, Alasdair (Co-investigator) McDonald, Alasdair (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2027
Contact
Professor
William
Leithead
Emeritus Professor
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: w.leithead@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2378