Professor Andrew Cruden

• Professor of Energy Technology, Head of Energy Technology Group Department of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton
• Email: A.J.Cruden@soton.ac.uk
• Telephone: (023) 8059 7660
• Twitter: @unisouthampton
• UKES 2019 Science Board member

Professor Andrew Cruden is Professor of Energy Technology within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.

Prof Andrew Cruden obtained his BEng, MSc and PhD degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He was appointed as Professor of Energy Technology at the University of Southampton in July 2012, within the Electro-Mechanical Research Group. In July 2013, he took up the role of Head of the Energy Technology Research Group. He is a Chartered Engineer.

He has significant experience in the field of renewable energy, particularly in fuel cell technology and condition monitoring of wind turbines. The interest in fuel cell technology led, indirectly, to an interest in the field of electric vehicles, and subsequently to research activity in energy storage (both batteries and supercapacitors, with EPSRC and TSB) and traction drives (through current EPSRC funding and two TSB funded projects).

He has attracted over £3M in research funding from both the Research Councils and industry, and published over 110 articles, including conferences and journal papers.