Dr. Ing. John Licari received a First-Class B.Eng. (Hons) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Malta in 2008. He was awarded the Presidents’ Scholarship from Cardiff University in 2010 to carry out doctoral research in control of variable speed wind turbines. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 2013 and he is currently a senior lecturer and the Head of Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Malta. He is also an associate member of the Institute for Sustainable Energy at the same University. Dr. Licari has published more than 25 international peer-reviewed journal and conference papers on wind turbines, control of power converters for various applications, power systems, zero energy buildings, microgrids, and energy efficiency. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IET and CIGRE. He is also a member of the CIGRE working group B5.82. His research interests include control of wind turbines, microgrids, control of power electronic converters for grid integration of renewable energy sources, power quality and energy efficiency.
Current Research Projects: -------------------------- Principal Investigator in Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) - Funded through MCST Sino- Malta 2023 - €130k Co-Investigator in Decarbonisation of Ports using microgrid technologies with shore and offshore power (DISTRICT) - Funded through MCST Sino-Malta 2023 - €200k Co-Investigator in High Reliability and High Power Density Starter/Generator System for MEA (SGdrive) - Funded through MCST Sino-Malta 2023 - €200k Principal Investigator in Reducing Energy Generated Intermittency Through Voltage Regulation - EWA 65/22 - €120k Co-Investigator in Advanced health evaluating and monitoring tool for aerospace electric drives (eVAL) - Funded through FUSION R&I: Research Excellence Programme, REP-2023-006 - €80k Co-Investigator in The research and development of an integrated hybrid electric drive system for a hydrofoil boat (eHyfoil) - Funded through FUSION R&I: The R&I FUSION programme: Commercialisation Voucher Programme (FUSION: CVP) - €19k Co-Investigator in High power density, fully integrated, one-body solution, starter-generator for light aircraft applications (HiGen) - Funded through FUSION R&I: The R&I FUSION programme: Commercialisation Voucher Programme (FUSION: CVP) - €19k Co-Investigator in Assessment of an emission control area in Maltese ports (ATLANTES) - Setting up of transdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange (TRAKE) complex at the University of Malta (ERDF.01.124) - €120k
