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Professor Brendan Fox Emeritus and Visiting Research Professor |
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Biography
Brendan Fox obtained a first-class honours BSc and a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) in 1966 and 1969. He then joined the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) as a research officer, leaving to take up a lecturing post at the Ulster Polytechnic in 1972. He joined QUB as a lecturer in 1980, and was subsequently appointed to a senior lectureship in 1990, a readership in 1996 and a chair in 2007.
Fox’s research interests are power system analysis, modelling and operation, and the large-scale integration of natural energy sources such as wind and tidal stream power. He has worked closely with the electricity supply industry in these areas.
He has published over 100 research papers. He was awarded the Crompton Premium (1992) and the Power Division Premium (2000) for papers published in the Proceedings of the IEE/IET. He is lead author of a book on ‘Wind power integration – connection and system operational aspects’ in the IET Power Engineering Series (2007). A second edition is due in 2014.
Professor Fox has been actively involved with the IEE/IET for a number of years at local and national level. He was chairman of the Northern Irish Power Section in 1993/1994, and was an honorary editor of the IEE Proceedings Part C (Generation, Transmission and Distribution) from 1996 until 2005. He currently acts as a professional review interviewer for the IET.
He has been an external examiner for masters courses in the electric power area at the Universities of Manchester, Bath and Cardiff.
He recently contributed to a book to celebrate 100 years of engineering at Queen’s – ‘Learning to Create: one hundred years (1912 – 2012) of electrical and mechanical engineering at Queen’s University Belfast’, edited by Don McCloy.