Staff Profile

Kris completed an apprenticeship with British Telecom before attending Northumbria University. Here he received a BSc(Hons) in Communications & Electronic Engineering and a MSc in Microelectronic Engineering.

In 2006 he joined Newcastle University to complete an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) with sponsorship from Dyson. His research focused on Power Supply Quality in Brushless Drives. After completing the doctorate Kris has moved into a Teaching Fellowship at Newcastle University. His research interests are mainly in permanent magnet machine design.

In his spare time Kris enjoys participating in adventure races: kayaking, cycling, running and orienteering.

Kristopher's main interest is on electromagnetic design of electrical machines. Several of the machine designs use Infloytica MagNet and Motorsolve software to simulate permanent magnet machines in both 2D & 3D. Kris has produced a set of tutorials to use the MagNet simulation package that is utilised by MSc and PhD students.

Since 2016 Kris has been a second supervisor to 3 PhD students working on Linear Machines and Induction Motors.

Kristopher is a member of the Electrical Power research group and his profile is available at Google Scholar

Undergraduate Teaching

EEE3008 Industrial Automation and Robotics (Since 2016)

EEE2008 Project and Professional Issues (Since 2012)

Postgraduate Teaching

EEE 8005 Industrial Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Since 2016)

EEE 8097 MSc Individual Project - Permanent Magnet Machine Designs (Since 2012).

• Smith KJ, Graham DJ, Neasham JA. Design and optimisation of a voice coil motor (VCM) with a rotary actuator for an ultrasound scanner. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2015, 62(11), 7073-7078.
• Raihan MAH, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Almoraya AA. An E-core linear veriner hybrid permanent magnet machine with segmented translator for direct drive wave energy converter. In: Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC). 2017, Miami, FL, USA: IEEE.
• Almoraya AA, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Raihan MAH. An investigation of a Linear Flux Switching Machine with Tapered Ferromagnetic Poles. In: 20th International conference on Electrical Machines and Systems. 2017, Sydney, Australia: IEEE.
• Almoraya AA, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Raihan MAH. Development of a double-sided consequent pole linear vernier hybrid permanent-magnet machine for wave energy converters. In: Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC). 2017, Miami, FL, USA: IEEE.
• van den Heuvel T, Graham DJ, Smith KJ, de Korte CL, Neasham JA. Development of a Low-Cost Medical Ultrasound Scanner Using a Monostatic Synthetic Aperture. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical circuits and Systems 2017, 11(4), 849-857.
• Raihan MAH, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Almoraya AA. Investigation of a Doubly Salient Halbach Array Linear Permanent Magnet Machine for Wave Energy Converters. In: The 20th International conference on Electrical Machines and Systems. 2017, Sydney, Australia: IEEE.
• Almoraya AA, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Raihan MAH. Flux Concentrated Doubly Salient Linear Permanent Magnet Machine. In: 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2018). 2018, Liverpool, UK: IET.
• Raihan MA, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Almoraya AA. Linear consequent pole Halbach array flux reversal machine. In: 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2018). 2018, Liverpool, UK: IET.
• Almoraya AA, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Raihan MAH. A New Configuration of a Consequent Pole Linear Vernier Hybrid Machine with V-shape Magnets. In: XXIIIrd International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM'2018). 2018, Alexandroupoli, Greece: ICEM.
• Raihan MAH, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Almoraya AA. Development and Testing of a Novel Cylindrical Permanent Magnet Linear Generator. In: 2018 XIII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM). 2018, Alexandroupoli, Greece: IEEE.
• Raihan MAH, Baker NJ, Smith KJ, Almoraya AA. Development of low translator mass linear Vernier machine for wave energy power take off. The Journal of Engineering 2019, 2019(18), 5224-5228.
• Raihan MAH, Smith KJ, Almoraya AA, Khan F. Interior permanent magnet synchronous machine (IPMSM) design for environment friendly hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications. In: 5th IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC 2017). 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh: IEEE.