energy efficient technologies Group

ger.hurleynuigalway.ie

Prof. Hurley is the director of the Power Electronics Research Centre, established in 1992.  He has over 30 years experience in the areas of electromagnetics, power electronics, and renewable energy.  He has published over 100 papers in journals and at international conferences.

maeve.duffynuigalway.ie

Dr. Duffy completed her PhD studies on planar magnetic devices in the Power Electronics Research Centre in 1997.  She worked for a number of years as a research officer with PEI Technologies in NMRC, Cork, before returning to the Department of Electronic Engineering at NUIG in 2001.  Dr. Duffy has published 15 papers in peer reviewed journals, and has contributed to 2 patents and over 30 conference publications.  Her research interests are in magnetic component design, wearable power generators, wireless powering, and sensors.

xinmin.zhannuigalway.ie

Dr. Zhan completed his PhD degree study in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2000. Currently, he is a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, NUI Galway. His research interest is to develop a sustainable agricultural industry by studying the environmental and energy issues, with the research topics of: (1) biofuels (biogas, bioethanol and biodiesel) production from agro-industrial wastes and crop by-products; (2) advanced technologies for nitrogen removal from high-nitrogen wastewater; and (3) development of adsorbents and nanomaterial for water supply, wastewater treatment and biofuel production. His research has been supported by EU FP6 and FP7, Irish EPA, Enterprise Ireland, Irish Department of Agriculture, etc. He has published more than 30 peer-review journal papers and is the Associate Editor of the journal of Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China (Springer and Higher Education Press of China) and a member of the editorial board of The Open Systems Biology Journal (Bentham Science Publishers).

hugh.melvinnuigalway.ie

Dr. Melvin is based at the Department of Information Technology since 1997. Prior to this, he worked for 9 years in Power Engineering and latterly as Maintenance Manager of a 1000MW Power Station in Moneypoint on the west coast of Ireland. His research interests include Real-Time Systems, Energy Informatics, Internet Multimedia, Time & Timing Systems and Wireless Technologies. He holds a PhD in Internet Multimedia from UCD(2004), a H.Dip(Software Design & Development) and research MSc from NUI,Galway (1998/2000) and an MBA from the University of Limerick (1997). He is also a member of the Performance Engineering Laboratory research group, a distributed group of researchers, based out of UCD and DCU but with a presence in other Irish institutions including NUI,Galway (See http://pel.ucd.ie/ and http://pel.it.nuigalway.ie/).

jamie.gogginsnuigalway.ie

Jamie Goggins is a lecturer in civil engineering. Prior to joining the academic staff at NUIG in 2008, he worked as a consulting engineer in Ireland and the on both national and international projects. Before that, he worked as a site engineer and project manager in both Australia and Ireland. His research interests linked to the activities of the Energy Research Centre include the development of sustainable construction technologies, energy efficient buildings, embodied energy analysis, ocean energy, structural control and health monitoring, and computational mechanics. Jamie is a chartered engineer with both Engineers Ireland and the Institute of Civil Engineers.

sean.leennuigalway.ie

Prof. Leen's main interest is in the development of computational solid mechanics solutions related to the 'Materials for Energy' theme. Examples are the development of computational and experimental methods for:

1. advanced materials technology for high efficiency, low emission fossil-fuel power-plant and
   
2. energy efficiency in contact mechanics and tribology of mechanical engineering systems and devices, e.g. aeroengine transmissions, offshore marine systems.