News & Vacancies

Vacancies

We are striving to provide excellent environment for research and encourage those who would like to carry out quality research in control theory and control engineering (including all areas, e.g. power electronics, renewable energy, automotive electronics, process control, mechatronics, flight control etc) and/or to study for a PhD degree with us. We are also very happy to host academic visitors and Fellowships (e.g. Newton International Fellowships, RAEng Research Fellowships, Royal Society University Research Fellowship etc).


Vacancy
Advert Details
Closing Date
Three postdoctoral researchers
In the area of power electronics and energy management for HEVs (to be advertised soon)

Postdoctoral researcher
http://jobs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php?page=Details&id=1320
18 March 2011
KTP Associate (DSP/Inverter Engineer)
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAR654/ktp-associate-dsp-inverter-engineer
10 March 2010
Postdoctoral researcher
http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/research/R-571818.htm
26 March 2010


News

Date
Details
21/04/2011
Mr Akbar Beik Khormizi joins the team as a PhD student.
28/03/2011
Miss Olivia Zeng joins the team as a PhD student.
24/03/2011
Mr Wen-Long Ming joins the team as a PhD student.
10/03/2011
Professor Zhong receives a £572K EPSRC grant as part of a £3.5M grant under the low-carbon vehicles Integrated Delivery Programme. See news release at National News, EPSRC, and Loughborough University
1-2/12/2010
Professor Guorong Liu, the Vice Chancellor of Hunan Institute of Engineering,  China, visits the group.
26/11/2010
Professor Zhong visits Cardiff Business School and gives a talk on control of time-delay systems and possible applications in supply chain manangement.
26-28/10/2010
Dr Josep M. Guerrero from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, visits the group.
21-22/10/2010
Professor Frede Blaabjerg visits the group and gives an IEEE Distinguished Lecture.
18-30/09/2010
Professor Salah-eddine Rebiai from the Department of Mathematics, University of Batna, Algeria, visits the group.
17/09/2010
Mr T. Hornik passes his PhD viva and becomes Dr Hornik. Congratulations to him.
15-16/09/2010
Professor Zhong chairs the 6th New-ACE Workshop with the theme on Advanced Process Control.
09/08/2010
Mr Z. Hou joins the group as a KTP Assocaite to work on the KTP project at Power Systems Warehouse Ltd.
04/08/2010
Professor Zhong is awarded a £126,530 grant for "Charging Systems with Grid Support for Electric Vehicles" under the EPSRC KTA scheme.
25/06/2010
Professor Zhong gives an invited webinar on synchronverters, organised by US EPRI, to participants from US research insitututions and utility companies.
24/06/2010
Professor Zhong gives an invited speak at University of Reading.
12-17/06/2010
Professor Zhong attends the 20th International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM) 2010 held in Pisa, Italy..
11/06/2010
Professor Shaosheng Fan from Changsha University of Science and Technology joins the group and starts his one-year visit.
20/05/2010
Professor Kevin Warwick from University of Reading visits the group.
06/05/2010
Dr Zhong is appointed as a Professor of Control Engineering to lead the Control and Reliability Group at the Dept of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University.
01/03/2010
Dr Zhong is appointed as a Guest Associate Editor for the 2010 Speical Issue on Power Electronics for Microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. Click here for a call for papers.
25/01/2010
Dr Zhong is elected to a Fellow of IET.
21/01/2010
Funding secured for "Further Development of the Synchronverter Technology to Increase its Technology-Readiness Level" from EPSRC KTA.
22/12/2009
A KTP partnership with Power System Warehouse Ltd, with support from TSB and EPSRC, is established.
25/11/2009
The synchronverter technology is awarded Highly Commended at the IET Innovation Awards 2009.
08/07/2009
The synchronverter technology is awarded Commended at the IET Innovation Awards Northwest 2009.
01/07/2009
Dr Zhong is appointed as an Associate Editor of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
30/06/2009
Dr Zhong is awarded a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering.