Professor Antonio Griffo

PhD, MSc

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor of Power Electronics and Electric Drives

Antonio Griffo
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a.griffo@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Antonio Griffo
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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I received my MSc in Electronic Engineering and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples in Italy in 2003 and 2007, respectively.

After completing my PhD on power systems stability and power quality improvement using power electronics based controllers in Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), I moved to the UK.

Here I worked as researcher at the Universities Bristol and Sheffield, where I was appointed Lecturer in 2013.

I have worked on a large number of projects involving the modelling, design, optimisation and control of power electronics and motor drives for applications including automotive, aerospace and renewables.

I developed modeling methods to analyse the dynamics of hybrid AC/DC power systems such as those proposed for the 鈥淢ore electric aircraft鈥, designed advanced control methods for motor drives including novel sensor-less techniques for aircraft starter/generators and developed methods for Hardware and Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop real-time simulation and testing of electrical drives.

I am actively researching the use of SiC-based converters for aerospace and renewables applications.

As electrical technologies become more widespread in novel applications where reliability is a primary concern, such as future more and all-electric aircrafts, I鈥檝e become involved in several projects related to the modelling and detection of faults in permanent magnet machines and power converters.

In particular, I am interested in the development of signal acquisition and processing techniques for real-time monitoring of the state of health of machine insulation, bearings and power electronics converters, with the aim of detecting degradation and faults and predicting the lifetime of components.

Research interests
  • Advanced control of electric drives and power electronics converters
  • SiC power electronics converters in transportation and renewable applications
  • Reliability, fault modelling and fault detection in permanent magnet machines and power converters
  • On-line monitoring of the state of health of machines and converters, diagnosis and prognosis of faults
  • Sensorless control of permanent magnet brushless dc and ac drives
  • Modelling and stability analysis of AC and hybrid AC/DC power systems
  • Power management in microgrids
  • Power electronics and systems for vehicular applications
  • More electric aircraft technologies
  • Thermal modelling and thermal monitoring of electric machines and converters
  • Parameters estimation in electric drives
  • Real time modelling and hardware in the loop testing methodologies
Publications

Journal articles

  • Li W, Li H, Chen X, Griffo A & Sun X (2025) . IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
  • Shlimet SB & Griffo A (2025) . The Journal of Engineering, 2025(1).
  • Shlimet SB & Griffo A (2025) . Applied Sciences, 15(18).
  • Qiu D, Liu M, Zhang R, Luo T, Griffo A & Zhang X (2025) . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, 3, 429-441.
  • Zhu W, De Gaetano D, Sun X, Li H, Chen X, Griffo A & Jewell GW (2025) . IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 1-11.
  • Sundeep S, Wang J & Griffo A (2025) . IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 40(2), 1388-1399.
  • Sherriff M, Griffo A, Jia C, Ng C, Zhu Z-Q & Stone DA (2025) . IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 32(1), 484-493.
  • Hewitt DA, Sundeep S, Griffo A & Wang J (2024) . IET Electric Power Applications, 18(11), 1458-1468.
  • De Gaetano D, Zhu W, Sun X, Chen X, Griffo A & Jewell GW (2023) . IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 59(11).
  • Gaetano DD, Zhu W, Sun X, Chen X, Griffo A & Jewell GW (2023) . IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 30(3), 1312-1321.

Conference proceedings

  • Li W, Li H, Sun X, Chen X & Griffo A (2025) . 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Conference Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (pp 1-6), 19 October 2025 - 23 October 2025.
  • Li W, Li H, Chen X, Griffo A & Sun X (2024) . 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (pp 6478-6483), 20 October 2024 - 24 October 2024.
  • Sun X, Zhu W, Chen X, Griffo A & Jewell G (2024) . 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (pp 3895-3901), 20 October 2024 - 24 October 2024.
  • O鈥橩eeffe H, Masoud M, Panagiotou P, Toqeer R, Griffo A & Lazari P (2024) . IET Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2024(3) (pp 653-658). Nottingham, United Kingdom, 10 June 2024 - 10 June 2024.
  • Wray T, Panagiotou P, Masoud M, O鈥橩eeffe H, Toqeer R, Griffo A & Lazari P (2024) . IET Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2024(3) (pp 646-652). Nottingham, United Kingdom, 10 June 2024 - 10 June 2024.
  • Hambly P & Griffo A (2024) . IET Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2024(3) (pp 560-567)
  • Li H, Zhu W, Liu C, Sun X, De Gaetano D, Chen X, Griffo A, Zhu ZQ, Jewell GW, Yang L , Yuan Y et al (2023) . 2023 26th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS) (pp 1364-1369), 5 November 2023 - 8 November 2023.
  • Zhu W, Gaetano DD, Sun X, Li H, Chen X, Griffo A, Jewell GW, Zhu ZQ, Liu C, Yang L , Yuan Y et al (2023) . 2023 26th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS) (pp 952-957), 5 November 2023 - 8 November 2023.
  • Ogundiran YL & Griffo A (2023) . 2023 IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis (WEMDCD) Proceedings. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 13 April 2023 - 13 April 2023.
  • Ogundiran YL, Griffo A, Wang J, Sundeep S, Bruder-Mandler F & Groh T (2023) . 2023 IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis (WEMDCD) Proceedings. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 13 April 2023 - 13 April 2023.

Preprints

  • Shlimet S & Griffo A (2025) , MDPI AG.
Professional activities and memberships
  • Senior Lecturer, Advanced Control of Electrical Drives
  • MSc Projects Coordinator

Links

Electrical Machines and Power  High Reliability Drives  EPSRC Prosperity Partnership: a new partnership in Offshore Wind