EngD Project Title: The Effect of Turbine Design on Tidal Array Potential

Industry Partner: Proteus Marine Renewables 

I graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MEng in Mechanical Engineering in 2025. During my studies, I completed a sandwich year at Ansys within the Materials Data R&D team in Cambridge. This experience allowed me to explore my technical interests and the direction I wanted to take in my career. There, I found myself resonating with the strong culture of sustainability found in Cambridge, and enjoying the research-driven aspects of my intern role.

I took that back with me in the final year of my degree, where I proposed and carried out my thesis on physics based simulation of battery degradation due to vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging. The project produced promising results, but I was unsure how relevant it would be to industry, and how much impact my research would actually have in the end. Through that, I realized having an impact is important to me - I want my research be relevant to and resolve current problems in renewables. This is what attracted me to IDCORE - its strong emphasis on industry collaboration in both understanding the sector and shaping meaningful research. In a fast moving sector such as renewables, I believe this to be an especially important connection.

As for what I hope to achieve, there is this one saying I quite like: “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”. While I’m only at the beginning of my career in renewables, I hope to contribute to work that creates a change for the better, and helps leave the world a better place for future generations.