Dr Rafael Pena Alzola
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
Rafael Peña-Alzola received the combined licentiate and M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering from the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from the National University for Distance Learning (UNED), Madrid, Spain, in 2011. He has worked as an electrical engineer for several companies in Spain. From September 2012 to July 2013, he was Guest Postdoc at the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark. From August 2014 to December 2016, he was Postdoc Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. From January 2017 to May 2017, he was with the University of Alcalá in Madrid, Spain for a short-term industrial collaboration. Since June 2017, he is with the University of 51cg in Glasgow, UK initially as Research Fellow and since 2019, as a Lecturer within the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre for Electrical Power Systems, Institute for Energy and Environment. His research interests are energy storage, LCL-filters, solid-state transformers, power electronics for hybrid electric aircraft and innovative control techniques for power converters. He is an IEEE Senior Member and Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics.
Publications
- Monroy-Morales José Luis, , , , Melgoza-Vázquez Enrique
- Energies Vol 19 (2026)
- Elwakeel Abdelrahman, , Zao Zihao, , Liao Yudi, ,
- IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity Vol 36 (2026)
- Zalapa Andrea Xiomara Monroy, Manjarrez Daniela Bobadilla, Monroy-Morales José Luis, ,
- 2025 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC) 2025 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC) 2025 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC), pp. 1-5 (2026)
- , , ,
- 52nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2026) (2026)
- Xiao Yudi, , ,
- 2025 Energy Conversion Congress & Expo Europe (ECCE Europe) IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo Europe 2025 (2025)
- , , ,
- 2025 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID) 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid 2025 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID) (2025)
Professional Activities
- Contributor
- 19/10/2022
Projects
- Jones, Catherine (Principal Investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- Norman, Patrick (Principal Investigator) Jennett, Kyle (Co-investigator) Jones, Catherine (Co-investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2029
- Seferi, Yljon (Principal Investigator) Burt, Graeme (Co-investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator) Feng, Zhiwang (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- Fong, Chung Man (Principal Investigator) Burt, Graeme (Co-investigator) Jones, Catherine (Co-investigator) Norman, Patrick (Co-investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2025 - 08-Jan-2026
- Pena Alzola, Rafael (Principal Investigator) Burt, Graeme (Co-investigator) Feng, Zhiwang (Co-investigator) Seferi, Yljon (Co-investigator)
- metrology
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2028
- Pena Alzola, Rafael (Principal Investigator) Norman, Patrick (Co-investigator)
- Previous work under RKES 240358
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Rafael
Pena Alzola
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: rafael.pena-alzola@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7261