Dr Leon Shpanin

I contribute in teaching of advanced analogue and digital electronics and electric vehicles.

Courses:

Electronic Engineering BEng (Final Year Direct Entry) (BEng (Hons))
Automotive Engineering with Electric Vehicles (BEng (Hons), MEng)

 

Since May 2026, I am assisting with the supervision (as a second supervisor) of one PhD student with the Sheffield Hallam University in the area of artificial intelligence and image processing developments and  evaluations for remote patient monitoring.

 

Since completion of my PhD in electromagnetics for high current interruption in 2006, I worked and successfully completed many academic and industrial research projects in the area of renewable energy, high-voltage engineering and Radio Frequency Design which were conducted in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, Sheffield Hallam University, University of Birmingham, University of Warwick and BRUSH Switchgear Ltd. I hold a reviewer position in the IEEE Journals of Transactions on Plasma Science (USA), Transactions on Mechatronics (USA) and Transactions on Power Delivery (USA). Since 2019, I am a Fellow in Higher Education Academy, Senior Member of IEEE and Guest Member of the Current Zero Club, Low-Voltage Circle which is International Research Group on Interruption Phenomena of Power Switching Devices. This is in line with the High-Voltage and Energy Storage (HVES) laboratory activities, which is a part of the Centre for  Batteries, Electric Vehicles and Electronics (CBEVE) at the Oxford Brookes University, where I am now  developing my research.

 

Some research projects with the significant research impact, where I acted as the Principal Investigator and Named Researcher, are shown below:

Principle Investigator:
Next generation circuit breakers for enhanced performance of UK rail networks (2020-2023), Royal Academy Engineering Industrial Fellowship Award, Funded by Royal Academy of Engineering (IF2021\49) - £50,000 and BRUSH Switchgear Ltd, UK - £20,000.

Named Researcher:
Development of a Novel Energy Efficient Magnetic Scroll Air Motor (2009-2011), Funded by EPSRC (EP/H004084/1) - £200,000.

• Senior Member of the IEEE
• Fellow in Higher Education Academy
• Guest Member of the Current Zero Club, Low-Voltage Circle (International Research Group on Interruption Phenomena of Power Switching Devices), www.currentzeroclub.org/

I attended many national and international conferences disseminating the research outcomes on the work in the area of renewable energy systems, high-voltage and pulsed power systems, mechatronics and control. In May 2024, I presented a collaborative pioneering research work on the smart control of the multirotor drone propeller  for enhanced vibration energy harvesting at 45th International IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, USA which was published at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10520938.

In 2021-2022, I conducted the consultancy work of the Blake UK Ltd, manufacturers and imports products for  TV/Radio aerial & satellite reception, funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), £7,200.

Industrial Fellowship Award for the work on Next-generation Circuit Breakers for Enhanced Performance of UK Rail Networks (Royal Academy of Engineering, 2020). 
Please see the following link for further information: https://raeng.org.uk/news/new-industrial-fellowships-support-research-on-safer-more-efficient-and-novel-transport-systems.

Award for best paper, Feasibility Study of the Quadcopter Propeller Vibrations for the Energy Production, by N. Osuchukwu and L. Shpanin (ICMAE 2017: International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, London, UK, 2017).

Award for the best presentation, Study on Capability of the Octocopter Configuration in Finite Element Analysis Simulation Environment, by B. Mathew Baby, L. Shpanin, M. Abramiuk (ICMAE 2025: International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, London, UK, 2025).