Principal Investigator

Dr. Paul Leahy, Senior Lecturer in Wind Energy

• Head of Energy Engineering
• Programme Director, BE Energy Engineering
• Programme Director, ME Energy Engineering
• Tel: +353 21 4902017
• email: paul.leahy@ucc.ie

Postdoctoral Research Assistants

• Dr. Quang Vu Dinh, HyFloat1 & H-Wind Project
• Dr. Javier Sanz-Corretge, HyFloatComp Project.
• Research Fellow, Dr. Dam Pham, HyFloat1
• Research Fellow, Dr. Mitra Kami Delivand, EirBlade

PhD and MEngSc Research Students

Current Students

• Justin Rutherford. Wind Energy Forecasting. Co-supervised with Dr. Marguerite Nyhan.
• Nathan Barr (M.Eng.Sc.), Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Retrofitted Housing Schemes. Co-supervised with Dr. Sarah O'Connell, College of SEFS and Dr. Dominic O'Sullivan.
• Mitra Abed (M.Eng., Munster Technological University). Wind Turbine Blade Condition Evaluation. Co-supervised with Kieran Ruane (MTU) and Dr. Vesna Jaksic (MTU)
• Jamal Alfaraj. Solar Photovoltaic Resource and Data Synthesis. Co-supervised with Dr. Emanuel Popovici, School of Engineering & Architecture.
• Dorcas Mikandani. Community Ownership of Wind Farms. Co-supervised with Dr. Peter Deeney (Sustainability Institute & Maynooth University) and Dr. John O'Brien (Accounting and Finance, CUBS, UCC).
• Trang Le (PhD, TUS). Variable Angle Tow Composite Hydrogen Tanks. Technical University of Shannon. HyFloatComp Project. Co-supervised with Dr. Luan Trinh (TUS) and Prof. Paul Weaver (UL).

Awaiting Graduation

• Hannah Mealy, Carbon Fluxes on Reforested Cutaway Peatland. Co-supervised with Dr. Fiona Cawkwell, Geography Department. 

Graduated PhD students since 2018

• Angela Nagle (PhD). Wind  Turbine Blade Repurposing. Co-supervised with Dr. Gerard Mullally, Department of Sociology and Dr. Niall Dunphy, CPPU/Sustainability Institute.
• Hussain Al-Mahdi (PhD). Condition Monitoring and Degradation of Solar PV Modules. Co-supervised with Dr. Alan Morrison, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
• Samuel Ayokunle Olowosejeje (PhD) PTDF PhD Fellow. Thesis topic: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­Integrating Renewables in Nigeria’s Energy Mix for increased sustainability of Power Generation. Co-supervised with Dr. Alan Morrison, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
• Igor Kerin (PhD), Flood Warning Systems for Scour Prevention. Co-supervised with Dr. Eamon McKeogh. 
• Joseph Kelly (PhD), Battery Energy Systems Electricity Market Modelling. Co-supervised with Dr. Alan Morrison. 

Graduated MEngSc and MRes Students Since 2015

• Patrick O’Kelly-Lynch, Science Foundation Ireland MAREI PhD Fellow. Topic: Extreme wave-structure interactions, smoothed particle hydrodynamics Co-supervised with: Dr. David Henry, School of Mathematical Sciences, UCC.
• Ian Evans, PIP MEngSc Fellow. Topic: Downtime analysis for offshore facilities
  Co-supervised with: Prof. Tony Lewis (Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCC & Beaufort Research), Prof. Alistair Borthwick (Edinburgh University)
• Ipek Uremek. (MEngSc) Environmental Monitoring for Early Detection of Forest Fires. Co-Supervised with Dr. Emanuel Popovici, School of Engineering & Architecture. 
• Parvaneh Nobakht, MEngSc (Research)  Catchment Modelling for End-to-End Attribution Studies. Co-supervised with Prof. Gerard Kiely, Hydromet group, UCC.
• Adam Pasik, MRes. Extreme Weather Events & Impacts. Co-Supervised with Dr. Kieran Hickey, Geography Department, UCC.

Previous PhD and MEngSc Research Students

• Edward Mc Garrigle (PhD 2014)
• Laura Kokkala (MEngSc 2014)
• Michael Lenihan (MEngSc 2013)
• Kevin Coffey (MEngSc 2013)