Dr Zhengyu Lin

BSc, MSc, PhD

  • Reader in Power Electronics
Publications

Background

Dr Zhengyu Lin joined the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ in May 2019 and works at the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST). Prior to his current position, he had been with Aston University as a Lecturer for more than 5 years, and with UK industry for more than 6 years. He was a senior researcher with Sharp Laboratory of Europe, and an R&D engineer with Nidec Control Techniques.

Qualifications and Awards

  • 2018 - 2021, EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship
  • March 2001 - July 2004, Ph.D., Power Electronics group, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. 
  • Sep 1998 - Mar 2001, MSc. in Electronic Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, China.
  • Sep 1994 - Aug 1998, BSc. in Electronic Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, China.

Main research interests

  • power electronics
  • renewable energy
  • energy storage
  • machine drives
  • microgrids

Grants and contracts

  • 2021 to 2023, EU H2020 MSCA IF 2019, Grant No. 898194, Power and Information Integration Technologies in Microgrids (PAINTING), 212, 900 Euros, Host Principal Investigator
  • 2021 to 2023, The Royal Society International Exchanges, IEC\NSFC\201174, The operation and control strategy of multi-energy integrated DC microgrids, £12,000, Principal Investigator
  • 2018 to 2022, EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship, EP/S001662/1, Plug-and-play Low Voltage DC Microgrid for Cheap and Clean Energy, £517,364 (FEC £646,705), Key industrial project partners: Nidec Control Techniques, GridEdge, and ARUP, Principal Investigator
  • 2018 to 2021, National Key R&D Program of China, 2017YFE0112400, Plug-and-play Operation Principle and Integration Application of Structured DC-Based Microgrid, 3.95m CNY (~500k Euros), EU partner leader
  • 2018 to 2020, Innovate UK/TSB, TS/R017123/1, Vehicle to Grid Intelligent Control (VIGIL), £ 276,215, Key industrial project partners: Nortech, Bytesnap, co-Investigator
  • 2017 to 2019, The Royal Society International Exchanges, IE161121, Research on Microgrid Optimised and Reliable Operation, £12,000, Principal Investigator
  • 2017 to 2021, EU H2020 MSCA RISE 2016, Grant No. 734796, Research, Demonstration and Commercialization of DC Microgrid Technologies (RDC2MT), total project budgets 436,500 Euros, Coordinator (Principal Investigator)
  • 2015 to 2016, The Royal Society Research Grant, RG140697, Novel power/communication converters network for DC microgrid, £14,000, Principal Investigator
  • 2013 to 2014: Industrial project, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Power Electronics for Solar Energy Storage System, £39k, Principal Investigator

External roles and appointments

  • Senior member of IEEE
  • Member of IET, Chartered Engineer
  • Fellow of Higher Education Association (HEA), UK
  • Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
  • Panel Member of EPSRC panel meeting in 2018
  • Member of IET Technical Committee TC2-4 DC Power Systems
  • Member of CIRED working group on DC DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS - WG 2019-1
  • Innovate UK (TSB) funding competitions assessor since 2013
  • Panel member of The British Council Researcher Links & Institutional Links initiative under the Newton Fund since 2014.
  • International conference technical committee members: ICDCM 2015, ICDCM 2017
  • International conference session chairs: ICRERA 2016, ICDCM 2017
  • External Ph.D examiner: University of Strathclyde and Newcastle University