Professor Thomas Morstyn
About
Professor Thomas Morstyn is Associate Professor in Power Systems with the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Co-Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society Taskforce on Power System Operations and Control with Quantum Computing.
His research is focused on the design of control systems and markets to enable the large-scale integration of distributed power system flexibility.
Previously, Professor Morstyn was a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and an EPSRC research fellow at the University of Oxford. Prior to undertaking his PhD, he also worked as an electrical engineer in Rio Tinto’s Technology and Innovation group.
Professor Morstyn received the BEng (Hon.) degree from the University of Melbourne in 2011, and the PhD degree from the University of New South Wales in 2016, both in electrical engineering.
Expertise
- Power networks
- Energy markets
- Smart grids
- Electric vehicles
- Distributed energy resources
- AI and machine learning for power systems
- Quantum computing for power systems
Selected publications
- Opportunities for quantum computing within net-zero power system optimization (2024)
- OPLEM: Open Platform for Local Energy Markets (2024)
- Making resource adequacy a private good: The good, the bad, and the ugly (2024)
- The energy flexibility divide: An analysis of whether energy flexibility could help reduce deprivation in Great Britain (2023)
- Putting wind and solar in their place: Internalising congestion and other system-wide costs with enhanced contracts for difference in Great Britain (2022)
- Scalable multi-agent reinforcement learning for distributed control of residential energy flexibility (2022)
- The opportunity for smart charging to mitigate the impact of electric vehicles on transmission and distribution systems (2020)
- Using peer-to-peer energy-trading platforms to incentivize prosumers to form federated power plants (2018)