Prof. Neville Watson
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Biography:
Neville Watson received his B.E. (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Canterbury, where he is now a Professor He was appointed to the academic staff at the University of Canterbury in September 1987 where he has been teaching and performing research into various aspects of power systems and power electronics. His main research areas have been; Computer Modelling of Electrical power systems, HVDC transmission, power quality, harmonics and electromagnetic transients. He has coauthored seven books, four chapters of books and more than 200 technical papers. He has been the recipient of a number of paper awards. Prof. Watson is a senior member of IEEE, member of IPENZ and IET (UK). He is also a Charted Professional Engineer, CPEng(NZ) and on the International Professional Engineers register, Int.PE(NZ).