Rate My Professor Richard McMahon

His research specializations focus on power electronics and electrical machines, particularly wide band-gap devices including silicon carbide and gallium nitride, applied to drive trains for hybrid and electric vehicles, wireless charging systems, battery energy storage at domestic and retail scales, power distribution interventions such as voltage regulators, and renewable generation from wind and marine sources using innovative linear generators. Emphasizing industrial collaboration, his work supports the automotive industry's transition to electrification. McMahon received the UK Energy Innovation Award in 2015 for Best University Technology with HTIP Limited and has delivered invited technical and public lectures. He contributes to EPSRC projects like the Underpinning Power Electronics switch optimisation theme. Key publications include 'Multiphysics Finite Element Analysis of Wire and Ribbon Bonds Under Pulse Power' (2025), 'A Self-Resonant Litz-Based Cable for Inductive Power Transfer' (2024), 'Design, build and retrofit of a 20 kW automotive wireless charging system using CCS interface' (2022), 'Highly reliable and efficient voltage optimizer based on direct PWM AC-AC buck converter' (2021), 'Influence of pole-pair combinations on the characteristics of the brushless doubly-fed generator' (2020), and 'Development of 50 kW wireless power transfer' (2020).