Professor Simon Neill
Professor in Physical Oceanography
Affiliations
Contact info
Room: Room 212, Marine Centre Wales Phone: 01248 383938
Email: s.p.neill@bangor.ac.uk
Web: Google Scholar; ResearchGate; Amazon Author Page; Twitter; Google Knowledge Panel
I am professor in physical oceanography, specializing in ocean renewable energy: characterizing the wave and tidal energy resource, understanding wave-tide interaction, optimizing grid integration of arrays of marine renewable energy devices, and quantifying the environmental impacts of extracting energy from the oceans. I am founder and course director of an MSc in Marine Renewable Energy, and committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), working on revising IEC Technical Specification 62600-201: Tidal Energy Resource Assessment and Characterization. I am a member of the editorial board of the Elsevier journal Renewable Energy, have written a textbook on marine energy "Fundamentals of Ocean Renewable Energy: Generating Electricity from the Sea", and am lead sediment scientist at FORCE (Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy). I also have other shelf sea research interests, including palaeoceanography, sediment dynamics, and simulating the dispersal of marine organisms and microplastics.
I currently lead a wide range of research projects at Bangor University, including:
- NERC – SE Asia Plastics. South East Asia MArine Plastics (SEAmap): Reduction, Control and Mitigation of Marine Plastic Pollution in the Philippines. Neill SP (PI), Hiddink JG, Robins PE, Lewis MJ, Skov MW, Dunn CP (School of Natural Sciences), Taboada E (University of San Carlos, Philippines); £708,034. 2020-2023.
- European Regional Development Fund. Smart Efficient Energy Centre (SEEC) (£7M) Simon Neill (PI), Iestyn Pierce & Graham Ormondroyd. 2019-2023.
Research Areas
- 2023
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Numerical modelling of tidal energy devices and structures as part of Net Zero
Simon Neill (Examiner)
8 Dec 2023Activity: Examination
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COAST CAEN 2023 - Between Land and Sea - International Conference on Oceanography and 19th French-Japanese Symposium of Oceanography
Simon Neill (Member of programme committee)
24 Oct 2023 → 27 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Powering the Energy Island and its People
Simon Neill (Speaker)
5 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
- 2022
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French Priority Research Program (External organisation)
Simon Neill (Chair)
2022 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of network
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Royal Society Partnership Grant
Simon Neill (Contributor)
2022 → 2023Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement
- 2016
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British Standards Institute (External organisation)
Simon Neill (Chair)
2016 → 2022Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Elsevier (External organisation)
Simon Neill (Chair)
2016 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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International Electrotechnical Committee (External organisation)
Simon Neill (Chair)
2016 → 2022Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
- 2011
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NERC (External organisation)
Simon Neill (Chair)
2011 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee