Dr Azmy Gowaid received a BSc (First Class Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 2007, and an MSc degree in 2011. He received a PhD degree from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in Jan 2017.
From 2010 to 2013, he was an R&D engineer with Spiretronic LLC in Alexandria, Egypt. He was also a teaching assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Alexandria University from 2008 to 2013. In 2016, he was appointed a research associate at the Power Electronics, Drives, and Energy Conversion (PEDEC) Research Group at the University of Strathclyde.
He is currently with the Department of Engineering, Glasgow Caledonian University as a lecturer of electrical power engineering. His current research interests include power electronics for smart grid, solar and wind energy integration, peer-to-peer electric energy trading, high voltage DC transmission (HVDC), and power system dynamics. Dr Gowaid has a number of highly-cited publications in top-ranked journals and conferences in the field of electrical power engineering.