Dr Catherine Jones

Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

I am a Chancellor's Fellow (lecturer) within the Institute for Energy and Environment.

My research focusses on the design of resilient, compact electrical power systems design, incorporating the influence of non-electrical power systems (e.g. carbon fibre composite structures).

This includes efficient methodologies for electrical power system architecture design for disruptive technologies, to meet both performance (weight, efficiency) and dynamic functionality requirements.

Design of integrated electrical power and structural systems, and multifunctional (combined electrical, structural and thermal systems), incorporating:

Component scale electrical and thermal modelling of carbon fibre composites.
Electrical fault diagnostics, prognostics and health monitoring.
Interdependent electrical power systems architectures (including grounding topologies) and composite structure design and trades.

My research involves a range of modelling & simulation and laboratory based hardware testing methods.

The main application for my research to date is aerospace, with electrification and lightweight structures two of the key enabling technologies for decarbonisation of aviation. However, my research is also relevant for other compact networks, e.g. Microgrids, marine electrical networks.

Publications

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Publications

A methodology to assess the sustainability of E-motors in electric vehicles: Bhagat Prithvi, Jones Catherine, Miscandlon Jill; 2024 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC) 2024 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC), pp. 1-6 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1109/esars-itec60450.2024.10819879
Electrical protection design for integrated motor drives with carbon fibre composite casings for aircraft: Jones Catherine E, Higgins Mark, Tahir Muhammad Hijaaj, Norman Patrick, Burt Graeme M; IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification Vol 10, pp. 9701-9711 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2024.3375932
Safety-driven baselining of hybrid electric aircraft electrical power system architectures: Fong Kenny, Norman Patrick, Jones Catherine; 34th Congress of the international council of the aeronautical sciences (2024)
A predictive model for electrical fault uncertainty of carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP): Osama Muhammad, Jones Catherine E, Stephen Bruce; 61st Annual Conference of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, NDT 2024, in conjunction with Materials Testing Exhibition, MT 2024 61st Annual Conference of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing Proceedings of the Annual British Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, pp. 187-198 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1784/ndt2024.4a1
Low frequency design criteria for carbon fibre composite casings for aircraft power electronic converters: Higgins Mark, Jones Catherine E, Peña Alzola Rafael, Burt Graeme; International Conference on More Electric Aircraft (2024)
Sizing of superconducting cables for turbo-electric distributed propulsion aircraft using a particle swarm optimization approach: Nolan Steven, Jones Catherine E, Norman Patrick J, Burt Graeme M; IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification Vol 8, pp. 4789-4798 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2022.3172495

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Teaching

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Teaching

I lead the Vertically Integrated Project on Integrated Systems for Decarbonisation of Aviation.

Research

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Professional Activities

Ian O'Neil: Host; 9/12/2024
UKESF Girls into Electronics 2024: Contributor; 6/6/2024
UKESF Girls into Electronics 2023: Chair; 14/6/2023
Integrating Electrical Power Systems with Composite Materials: Speaker; 15/11/2019
AIAA/IEEE Electric aircraft technologies Symposium: Participant; 22/8/2019
Engineering the Future for Girls: Contributor; 18/6/2019

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Projects

DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Zvolska, Barbora: Jones, Catherine (Principal Investigator) Norman, Patrick (Co-investigator) Zvolska, Barbora (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
GKNAS Modelling and Requirements Capture: Norman, Patrick (Principal Investigator) Jones, Catherine (Co-investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator) Bradley, Luke (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025
Manufacturing of Multifunctional Conduction Composites: Yokan, Catherine (Principal Investigator) Jones, Catherine (Principal Investigator); 29-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
INtegration and Digital demonstration of low-emission aIrcraft technoloGies and airport Operations (INDIGO) (Horizon Europe CL5): Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Jones, Catherine (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2026
Multifunctional carbon fibre composites for lightweight, structural electrical current return networks for future electric aircraft.: Jones, Catherine (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024
Failure modes of CFRP due to electrical current conduction - Vertical Aerospace: Jones, Catherine (Principal Investigator) Cutting, Daniel James (Co-investigator) Norman, Patrick (Co-investigator) Yokan, Catherine (Co-investigator); Application to the Inward Investment Catalyst Fund; 14-Jan-2022 - 14-Jan-2023