Professor Gareth Harrison is Bert Whittington Chair of Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. His research addresses the challenge of integrating renewable energy reliably and sustainably, and involves emerging industrial and policy questions. He has participated in a wide range of UK and EU research consortia and led the EPSRC Adaptation and Resilience in Energy Systems project, examining climate impacts on energy system resilience.
He is currently a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council and has made contributions to other industrial and learned society committees. These include the Engineering Policy Group Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh Inquiry into Scotland’s Energy Future and the SSE Transmission RIIO-T2 User Group. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.