Professor Mark O’Malley, University College Dublin Hatfield College
October – December 2013
Mark O’Malley is Professor of Electrical Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD), and founder and director of the Electricity Research Centre, an industry supported research group chaired by the Irish energy regulator. His teaching and research interests are in Grid Integration of Renewable Energy. He has spent sabbaticals at the University of Virginia, University of Washington and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado. He has received two Fulbright awards, is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Institute of Engineers of Ireland (IEI) and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. In 2008 he received the Utility Wind Interest Group (UWIG) Achievement Award.
Professor O’Malley has authored over 250 academic papers and supervised 17 PhDs to completion. He is a world-leading authority on grid integration of renewable energy and he is actively involved in many different international bodies and organisations. These include the International Energy Agency, European Research Council, European Academy of Sciences Advisory Council, Utility Wind Interest Group, US Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Energy Foundation.
Professor O’Malley is also the Irish representative on the International Energy Agency Research Task 25: Design and Operation of Power Systems with Large Amounts of Wind Power and he is the lead author with responsibility for integration issues in the recent International Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation.
While at the IAS Professor O’Malley will use his Fellowship to collaborate with Durham colleagues on projects centred on the Institute’s sub-theme of Life, Culture and Practice and specifically The History and Future of Artificial Light project. He will also work on more general matters of the grid integration of solar power.
Dr Juha Saatsi, University of Leeds University College October – December 2013
Dr Juha Saatsi is Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds, focusing on the philosophy of science. He studied theoretical physics (MSc) at Jyväskylä University in Finland, followed by further studies in mathematics at the University of Leeds. After coming into contact with the philosophy of physics he changed subjects to study philosophy, earning his PhD at Leeds in 2006 with a thesis concerning the limits of scientific knowledge. Soon after graduation he took up a position at the University of Leeds.
Dr Saatsi has broad interests in the philosophy of science and beyond. Much of his research is driven by profound interest in the scientific realism debate concerning philosophical challenges to scientific knowledge. What can we really claim to know about the fundamental nature of light, for example? The history of science, the intricacies of fundamental physics, and the overall nature of scientific theorising give rise to fascinating challenges to any attempt to read scientists’ assertions regarding light more or less at face-value.
Dr Saatsi’s research on scientific realism crosses over to the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as the history of science. Other topics of active research range from the nature of scientific representation and modelling, to the nature of scientific explanation.
He has published numerous articles in prominent journals including, among others, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Studies in History of Philosophy of Science, and Synthese. He is a co-editor of Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, and the author of Scientific Realism in Oxford Bibliographies Online. In 2011 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science.
While at the IAS in Durham Dr Saatsi will be working on historical and philosophical issues relating to the knowledge of the fundamental nature of light.
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