Professor Dan Gladwin

PhD, MEng

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor of Electrical and Control Systems Engineering

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d.gladwin@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Dan Gladwin
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Professor Dan Gladwin received MEng and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sheffield, in 2004 and 2009. Following postdoctoral positions focused on power electronics and safety-critical embedded systems for electric vehicles (2009 - 2010), he joined the school as a Lecturer within the Electrical Machines and Drives research group in 2012, before being promoted to Professor of Electrical and Control System Engineering in 2020.

His research expertise is focused on electrical energy storage technologies - including batteries, supercapacitors, and flywheels, as well as whole-system integration, diagnostics, prognostics, and intelligent optimization systems. He serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Electrical Energy Storage and its Applications (CREESA), managing the UK's only research-led large-scale energy storage test facility (4.1MW capacity). These research activities are supported by a substantial grant portfolio that includes a £3.8M grid-connected lithium titanate demonstrator project, a £1.5M EPSRC-funded TransEnergy project investigating railway storage, and leadership of a Horizon 2020 project to install Europe’s largest hybrid flywheel-battery system.

Research interests
  • Control-power systems
  • Power electronics
  • Embedded systems
  • Energy storage and management
  • Intelligent systems
  • Telematics
  • Optimisation and modelling
  • Evolutionary computing
  • Robotics
  • Optimisation and Modelling
Publications

Journal articles

  • Bryden TS, Rogers DJ, Hutchinson AJ, Gladwin DT, Alahyari A, Rawat T, Patsios C, Harrison CM, Radcliffe J, Yan H & Forsyth AJ (2026) . Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, 47, 102476-102476.
  • Scott JA, Fletcher DI & Gladwin DT (2025) . Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 239(9), 765-776.
  • Hutchinson AJ, Harrison CM, Bryden TS, Alahyari A, Hu Y, Gladwin DT, Radcliffe J, Rogers DJ, Patsios C & Forsyth A (2025) . Journal of Energy Storage, 109.
  • Yan H, Forsyth A, Hutchinson A, Gladwin D, Bryden T, Rogers D, Radcliffe J, Alahyari A, Rawat T & Patsios H (2025) . IET Conference Proceedings, 2024(32), 270-275.
  • Hutchinson AJ & Gladwin DT (2024) . IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 11, 434-445.
  • Khazali A, Al-Wreikat Y, Fraser EJ, Naderi M, Smith MJ, Sharkh SM, Wills RG, Gladwin DT, Stone DA & Cruden AJ (2024) . World Electric Vehicle Journal, 15(8).
  • Khazali A, Al-Wreikat Y, Fraser EJ, Sharkh SM, Cruden AJ, Naderi M, Smith MJ, Palmer D, Gladwin DT, Foster MP , Ballantyne EEF et al (2024) . Energies, 17(15).
  • Hutchinson AJ & Gladwin DT (2024) . Energies, 17(11).
  • Naderi M, Palmer D, Smith MJ, Ballantyne EEF, Stone DA, Foster MP, Gladwin DT, Khazali A, Al-Wreikat Y, Cruden A & Fraser E (2024) . Energies, 17(4).
  • Ahmouda A & Gladwin DT (2023) . Energies, 16(23).
  • Hutchinson AJ & Gladwin DT (2023) . Journal of Energy Storage, 68.
  • Aburziza AA, Naderi M & Gladwin DT () . Energies, 19(9), 2232-2232.
  • Hutchinson AJ, Harrison CM, Bryden TS, Alahyari A, Hu Y, Gladwin DT, Radcliffe J, Rogers DJ, Patsios C & Forsyth A () . Energy Storage and Applications, 3(1), 4-4.

Book chapters

  • Naderi M, Ballantyne E, Munoz MN, Hind G, Stone D, Gladwin D & Foster M (2025) In Wang X (Ed.), Sustainable and Emerging Energy Technology: Challenges, Opportunities, and Perspectives (pp. 133-154). Springer Nature Switzerland

Conference proceedings

  • Nunez Munoz M, Naderi M, Smith M, Hutchinson A, Hind G, Ballantyne E, Stone D, Gladwin D & Foster M (2026) . PCIM Europe Conference Proceedings. Nuremberg, Germany
  • Hutchinson AJ, Scott JA, Smith MJ, Aburziza AA, Gladwin DT & Fletcher DI (2025) . IECON 2025 – 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp 1-6). Madrid, Spain, 14 October 2025 - 14 October 2025.
  • Scott JA, Fletcher DI & Gladwin DT (2025) . IECON 2025 – 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp 1-6). Madrid, Spain, 14 October 2025 - 14 October 2025.
  • Smith MJ & Gladwin DT (2025) . IECON 2025 – 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Madrid, Spain, 14 October 2025 - 14 October 2025.
  • Hutchinson AJ, Gladwin DT, Eardley S, Radcliffe J, Bryden TS, Rogers DJ, Alahyari A, Wang S, Patsios C, Yan H & Forsyth A (2025) . 2025 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP) (pp 141-146), 24 June 2025 - 26 June 2025.
  • Bryden TS, Rogers DJ, Hutchinson AJ, Gladwin DT, Eardley S, Radcliffe J, Alahyari A, Wang S, Patsios C, Yan H & Forsyth AJ (2025) . 2025 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP) (pp 496-500), 24 June 2025 - 26 June 2025.
  • Hutchinson AJ, Gladwin DT, Harrison CM, Radcliffe J, Bryden TS, Rogers DJ, Alahyari A, Rawat T, Patsios C, Forsyth A & Yan H (2024) . 2024 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) (pp 1-6), 10 November 2024 - 13 November 2024.
  • Hutchinson AJ, Gladwin DT, Harrison CM, Radcliffe J, Bryden TS, Rogers DJ, Alahyari A, Rawat T, Patsios C, Forsyth A & Yan H (2024) . 2024 International Conference on Renewable Energies and Smart Technologies (REST) (pp 1-5), 27 June 2024 - 28 June 2024.
  • Rawat T, Alahyari A, Patsios C, Harrison CM, Radcliffe J, Hutchinson AJ, Gladwin DT, Bryden TS, Rogers DJ, Yan H & Forsyth A (2024) . 2024 International Conference on Renewable Energies and Smart Technologies (REST) (pp 1-5), 27 June 2024 - 28 June 2024.
  • Bryden TS, Rogers DJ, Hutchinson AJ, Gladwin DT, Harrison CM, Radcliffe J, Alahyari A, Rawat T, Patsios C, Hu Y & Forsyth AJ (2024) . 2024 IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Application and Technologies Conference (EESAT) (pp 1-5), 29 January 2024 - 30 January 2024.
  • Naderi M, Palmer D, Munoz MN, Al-Wreikat Y, Smith M, Fraser E, Ballantyne EEF, Stone DA, Gladwin DT & Foster MP (2024) . Pcim Europe Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2024-June (pp 949-957)
  • Alahyari A, Harrison CM, Rawat T, Radcliffe J, Patsios C, Hutchinson AJ, Gladwin DT, Hue Y, Forsyth A, Bryden TS & Rogers DJ (2023) . IET Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2023(28) (pp 112-118)
  • Hutchinson AJ & Gladwin DT (2023) . 2023 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Latin America (ISGT-LA) (pp 270-274), 6 November 2023 - 9 November 2023.
Grants
  • Resilient Energy Systems for Cold-climate Underserve, Innovate UK, Aug 26 - Jul 28, PI
  • Commercialising Next-Generation Smart Battery Systems, Innovate UK, Aug 26 - Jul 28, PI
  • Hybrid LTO-LFP Architectures & Digital, Commercial, Apr 26 - Mar 28, Co-I
  • Future Electric Vehicle Energy Networks supporting Renewable, EPSRC, Nov 25 - Oct 26, Co-I
  • Na-ion Batteries for Sustainable Energy and Mobility in Africa, The Faraday Institution, Aug 25 - Sep 26, PI
  • Critical mass programme - IES highlight area, EPSRC, Mar 26 - Feb 30, Co-I
  • Innovative Cement-Carbon Composite Electrochemical Capacitor, EPSRC, Feb 25 - Feb 28, PI
Teaching activities
  • ELE215 Engineering Software Design
  • ELE449 Energy Storage Management

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