Rate My Professor Thomas Morstyn

Thomas Morstyn is Associate Professor in Power Systems in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Power Systems Architecture Lab. He earned a BEng (Honours) in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne in 2011 and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in 2016. Before pursuing his doctorate, he worked as an electrical engineer in Rio Tinto’s Technology and Innovation group. Subsequently, he held positions as an EPSRC research fellow at the University of Oxford and a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Additionally, he serves as a Tutorial Fellow in Engineering at Hertford College and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Morstyn is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEEE). He directs the Oxford Martin Programme on Circular Battery Economies.

His research specializes in power system digitalisation and market design to facilitate the net-zero energy transition, focusing on control systems and markets that integrate distributed flexibility from renewable generation, heating and transport electrification, and customer-level technologies. This is supported by advancements in systems modelling, multi-agent control, optimisation, mechanism design, game theory, machine learning, and quantum computing. Morstyn collaborates across disciplines with economists, computer scientists, and social scientists to assess impacts and policy implications. He holds editorial roles as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Co-Chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society Taskforce on Power System Operations and Control with Quantum Computing. Notable publications include "Using peer-to-peer energy-trading platforms to incentivize prosumers to form federated power plants" in Nature Energy (2018), "Bilateral contract networks for peer-to-peer energy trading" in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2018), "Multiclass energy management for peer-to-peer energy trading driven by prosumer preferences" in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2018), and "Peer-to-peer energy systems for connected communities: A review of recent advances and emerging challenges" in Applied Energy (2021). His research has been cited over 9,900 times according to Google Scholar.