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Professor William Leithead

Emeritus Professor

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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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.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
20/6/2018

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Publications

Sivakumar Nitin, , , Hur Sung-Ho
Ocean Engineering Vol 352 (2026)
Cole Matthew, Stock Adam,
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 3131 (2025)
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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)

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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

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Contact

Professor William Leithead
Emeritus Professor
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Email: w.leithead@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2378