Dr Ahmed Aboushady
Senior Lecturer & Deputy Director of SMART Technology Centre
Department of EngineeringDr. Aboushady is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Power Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University. He joined GCU as a Lecturer in 2017 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2019. Dr. Aboushady teaches and supervises students in electrical power engineering, with responsibilities across undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral education, alongside research leadership in smart and sustainable power systems. He held the role of Programme Lead for MSc Electrical Power Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University from 2018 to 2023.
Dr. Aboushady received his BEng (Hons) and MSc in Electrical and Control Engineering from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt, before completing a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in 2013. He has over 21 years of teaching and research experience in Egypt and the UK, including postdoctoral research at the University of Aberdeen and a Lectureship in Electrical Engineering at Robert Gordon University.
Dr. Aboushady’s research interests include high-power DC/DC converters, HVDC transmission, renewable energy integration, smart grids, digital twins of distribution networks and fault localisation in underground cables. He has led and co-led externally funded projects worth £2.2M, published widely, contributed to a patent and IEC Standard technical report, and serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. His full research profile is available on GCU ResearchOnline.