Professor Phil Mellor
Ph.D.(Liv.), B.Eng.(Liv.)
Current positions
Professor of Electrical Engineering
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
Electrical machines
Power electronic drives and their control
Hybrid, electric and fuel cell vehicle power trains
Aircraft electrical actuation and generation systems
Automotive 42V electrical systems
MEMS devices
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Innovation and Knowledge Centre: Transforming Net Zero with Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Device Technology (REWIRE)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2024 to 31/03/2029
Multidomain Synthesis for New Concept Hydraulic and In-Wheel Motor Suspension Systems
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/10/2021 to 30/09/2024
Network Synthesis for Air Suspension and Electromagnetic Suspension Design
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/01/2021 to 31/12/2022
8031 AEPEC
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2020 to 30/06/2025
ATI Systems Theme Institutional Funding - Bristol element
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
31/01/2017 to 30/03/2017
Thesis supervisions
Reducing DC-Link Capacitance Requirements in Large Wind Turbines
Supervisors
Topology, Efficiency Analysis and Control of Four-level π-type Converters
Supervisors
Failure and Degradation Analysis of Planar and Trench SiC MOSFETs Under Repetitive Short Circuit Stress
Supervisors
Air-gap Electrical Windings for Light-weighting of Future Electric Propulsion Systems
Supervisors
Manufacture and Analysis of Compressed Aluminium Stator Windings for Low Voltage Electrical Machines
Supervisors
Analysis of performance of SiC bipolar semiconductor devices for grid-level converters
Supervisors
Reflected wave phenomenon in inverter-fed machines with fast-switching (high dv/dt) wide bandgap power converters
Supervisors
Ceramic Enabled Advanced Packaging for Wide Bandgap Power Devices
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
16/07/2026Electro-thermal Stability of Planar, Trench & Double-Trench 4H-SiC MOSFETs in Linear Mode Operation
2026 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Nagasaki 2026 - ECCE Asia)
Uncertainty Analysis of Empirical AC Proximity Loss Methods for Low-Loss Windings
2026 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)
Cross-platform J-A Modelling for High Temperature Superconducting Applications with Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Materials
Superconductor Science and Technology
Experimental and numerical study on the AC loss of HTS REBCO winding for fully superconducting electrical machine
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Experimental Study on the Dynamic Resistance of HTS REBCO Coated Conductor Tape
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Related people
Professor Nick Simpson
Professor of Electrical Machines
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Mr Dominic North
Senior Research Associate
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Saeed Jahdi
Senior Lecturer in Power Electronics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Renze Yu
Senior Research Associate
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr George Barnaby
Senior Research Associate
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering