Professor Geraint Jewell

Geraint is a graduate of the University of Sheffield (BEng 1988, PhD 1992) and has been a member of the academic staff since 1994. He served as Engineering’s first Faculty Director of Research and Innovation from 2008-2011 and as Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering from 2013 to 2019. He served as Interim Head of the Advanced Manufacturing Group from 2022 and became Vice-President and Head of the Advanced Manufacturing Group in June 2023.

During his time on the academic staff, he held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (2000-2005) and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship at Rolls-Royce (2006-2008). He has been Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Advanced Electrical Machines since 2006 and Director of the EPSRC Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub since 2019.

His research is concerned with electromagnetic and electromechanical devices and has encompassed numerous topics including impulse magnetisation fixture design, pulsed field characterisation of permanent magnets, core loss in electrical machines, linear actuation systems, electrical machines for aerospace applications and mechanical and aerodynamic aspects of high-speed machines. Much of this research has been undertaken in close collaboration with industry. His research has in more recent times focussed on manufacturing of electrical machines.