Prof John Ringwood

Electronic Engineering

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Biography

Biography

John Ringwood, a native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, was educated at Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street and at Strathclyde University in Scotland, where he was awarded the PhD in 1985. He also obtained an MA in Music Technology from Maynooth University in 2005. He was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering in Dublin City University until 2000, when he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University, serving as founding Head for a five year term to July 2005, also serving as Dean of Engineering from 2001 to 2006. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Ocean Energy Research at Maynooth University. He was a visiting Research Fellow at Massey University in New Zealand in 1991/92 and a visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland in 1999. His research interests focus on the development and application of modelling and control systems techniques, with current applications in renewable energy systems (particularly wave energy) and physiology.

John is a Fellow of EngineersIreland, by Presidential Invitation, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE). and has won a range of awards, including Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Award, Maynooth University’s Doctoral Supervision and Commercialisation Awards, a range of best paper awards, including best paper awards for IEEE Trans. on Control System Technology, IEEE Control Systems, Journal of Simulation, a range of best paper awards at international conferences, and was elevated to Chevalier des Palmes Academiques by the French Government in 2017. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles, 2 co-authored books and was awarded 2 patents for innovations in wave energy. He has supervised over 40 research students to completion and more than 40 postdoctoral researchers.

John currently sits on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, IET Renewable Power Generation, and the Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ringwood-783ab818/?originalSubdomain=ie  

 

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