Professor Suleiman Sharkh BEng, PhD,SMIEEE, CEng, MIET
Professor of Power Electronics Machines and Drives, Head of Mechatronics Group,Deputy Director of the Southampton EPSRC Energy Storage and its Applications CDT
Suleiman Sharkh is Professor of Power Electronics Machines and Drives within Engineering and the Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
He is the Head of the Mechatronics Research Group, and the Deputy Director of the Southampton EPSRC Energy Storage and its Applications CDT.
He has over 20 years research experience in electric machines, power electronics and their applications in transport, renewable energy and microgrids. He has published over 160 papers, supervised over 20 PhD students to completion and currently supervises 10 PhD students. His inventions and research, funded by industry, EPSRC and Innovate UK, have contributed to the development of several commercial products: rim driven thrusters; direct drive tidal turbine generators; submersible motors; high speed PM machines for electric turbo compounding and gas compressors and grid connected inverters.
He was the winner of The Engineer Energy Innovation and Technology Award 2008 for his work on novel rim driven marine thrusters and turbine generators.