Dr Katerina Fragaki
Katerina has a Physics background with expertise in Photovoltaic Systems and Renewable Energy. She teaches and supervises both undergraduates and postgraduates and she is the MSc Renewable Energy Engineering Course Leader. She welcomes applications for PhD study and/or MSc by research in her area of work.
Katerina's research includes:
- long term weather and the performance of renewable energy systems
- effect of environmental parameters on the performance of photovoltaic systems
- design and sizing of renewable energy systems
- local energy communities.
Katerina is Module Leader of MSc Modules: Renewable Energy Resources and Technology, Design and Analysis of Renewable Energy Systems, Research Methods, and she is the co-ordinator of MSc Renewable Energy Engineering Projects.
She supervises PhD projects in her area of research.
Completed PhD projects as Main Supervisor:
- Simulation of Residential Energy Consumption Profiles, by Edward Sanderson
- Modelling the impact of the electrification of heating and transport on the mix of wind, solar, and storage, by Malcolm Peacock
Completed PhD projects as Co-Supervisor:
- Probing the Stability of Halide Perovskite Films Using Electron Spectroscopy Techniques, by Udit Tiwari
After completing her PhD and before coming to Preston to join us, Katerina worked in the research projects DESIRE (Dissemination strategy on Electricity balancing for large Scale Integration of Renewable Energy) at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Virtual Village (VIRVIL) at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff University (UK) and as a Lecturer in Renewable Energy at the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at Durham University.
- PhD Photovoltaic Systems, University of Southampton, UK, 2005
- MSc in Renewable Energy Systems Technology Loughborough University, 1998
- First degree Physics, University of Patras, Greece.
Katerina's main research interest is in applications of renewable and low carbon technologies in buildings and communities, with emphasis on the effect of weather parameters on the operation of these technologies.
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