Dr Will Drury
Chief Executive Officer
Power Networks Demonstration Centre
Personal statement
Personal statement
Will Drury is the CEO at PNDC, one of the University of Strathclyde's industry-facing innovation centres. Will has an outstanding track record, focused on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, and has previously held roles including Executive Director for Digital and Technologies and led the Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge for Innovate UK, and Global Technical Expert at Ricardo, an engineering and environmental consultancy. Will is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET and Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a PhD from the University of Bristol.
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Qualifications
MEng PhD CEng FIET SMIEEE
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Publications
- High Power Density, 48V Electrified Drivetrain Technology for Future Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
- Drury William, Patel Chintanbhai, Atkins Andrew, Wearing Anthony
- SAE Technical Papers Vol 1, pp. 55-60 (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-26-0034
- Deploying SiC BJTs in an 800-V switched-mode power supply for hybrid & electric vehicles
- Hopkins Andrew, McNeill Neville, Drury William D, Atkins Andrew
- 2017 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) IEEE 26th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp. 1431-1438 (2017)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2017.8001456
- Adaptive sensorless position estimation of a field-weakened permanent magnet machine over an extended temperature range
- Drury WD, Holliday D, Drury D, Mellor PH
- 5th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2010) 5th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2010) (2010)
- https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2010.0110
- An adaptive structure based sensorless position estimator for permanent magnet machines in aerospace applications
- Drury Will, Holliday Derrick, Drury David, Mellor Philip
- IEEE International electric machines and drives conference, 2009. IEMDC '09. Proceedings IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference 2009 (IEMDC '09), pp. 1264-1269 (2009)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMDC.2009.5075365
- A comparison of a flux observer with a back-emf technique for sensorless rotor position estimation
- Drury W D, Holliday D, Mellor P H
- 41st International Universities Power Engineering Conference, UPEC 2006, Conference Procedings 41st International Universities Power Engineering Conference, UPEC 2006 41st International Universities Power Engineering Conference, UPEC 2006, Conference Procedings Vol 2, pp. 714-718 (2007)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/UPEC.2006.367572
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Professional Activities
- IEEE Tech Summit 2025
- Participant
- 2/10/2025
- Power Electronics: The Backbone of Future Energy Systems
- Speaker
- 9/7/2025
- PNDC: A replica environment for innovation validation
- Invited speaker
- 10/6/2025
- DER leadership meeting 2025
- Participant
- 30/4/2025
- APPG Parliamentary Event on Critical Minerals
- Participant
- 23/4/2025
- My future in your hands…
- Invited speaker
- 2/4/2025
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Contact
Dr
Will
Drury
Chief Executive Officer
Power Networks Demonstration Centre
Email: will.drury@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted