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Biography
John
Ringwood, a native of Enniscorthy,
Co. Wexford, was educated at Dublin Institute of
Technology, Kevin Street and at Strathclyde
University in Scotland, where he was awarded the PhD in 1985. He also obtained
an MA in Music Technology from Maynooth University in 2005. He was a Senior
Lecturer in the School of Electronic
Engineering in Dublin City University
until 2000, when he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of
Electronic Engineering at Maynooth
University, serving as founding Head for a five year term to July 2005,
also serving as Dean of Engineering from 2001 to 2006. He is currently the
Director of the Centre for Ocean
Energy Research at Maynooth University.
He
was a visiting Research Fellow at Massey
University in New Zealand in 1991/92 and a visiting Senior Lecturer at
the University of Auckland in 1999.
His research interests focus on the development and application of modelling
and control systems techniques, with current applications in renewable energy
systems (particularly wave energy) and physiology.
John
is a Fellow of Engineers
Ireland, by Presidential Invitation, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of
the Institution of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (FIEEE). and has won a range of awards, including Enterprise
Ireland s Commercialisation Award, Maynooth University s Doctoral Supervision
and Commercialisation Awards, a range of best paper awards, including best
paper awards for IEEE
Trans. on Control System Technology, IEEE
Control Systems, Journal
of Simulation, a range of best paper awards at international conferences,
and was elevated to Chevalier des Palmes Academiques
by the French Government in 2017. He was elevated to Fellow by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for "contributions to the development of wave energy control technology" in 2025, the first such Fellow in RoI. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed
articles, 2 co-authored books and was awarded 2 patents for innovations in
wave energy. He has supervised over 40 research students to completion and
more than 40 postdoctoral researchers.
John
currently sits on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy,
IET Renewable Power Generation, and the Journal of Ocean Engineering and
Marine Energy.
Links to
other information:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BYY-AUcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ringwood-783ab818/?originalSubdomain=ie
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