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Judith received her BA in Electrical Sciences from Cambridge University in 1986, and her PhD from the University of Surrey in 1996. She started her career as a Technologist Apprentice at Westland Helicopters (1982-87), then as an Electrical Engineer in the Machines and Drives Department at ERA Technology/Cobham Technical services (1987-1995), followed by industrial control and database projects for an independent software house (1996-2001). She joined the University of Manchester in 2001 as a Research Associate, becoming a Senior Experimental Officer in 2006 and a Lecturer in 2008.

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Research interests

Judith's main research interest is the modelling and control of electric drive systems. This includes electrical machines, power electronics, microprocessor control, mechanical systems, sensors and the power system. She is also interested in

Fault tolerant control of multiphase machines
Electric marine propulsion drives
Calorimetric loss measurement methods and loss calculations for power conversion components

For further information on her current and recent work see her publications:

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Teaching

Judith currently teaches on a second year embedded systems project to design and build an autonomous buggy, and is responsible for the 'Control of Elecrical Drives' module on the Electrical Energy Conversion Systems MSc.