Malcolm McCulloch was a South African born engineer and academic. An advocate for, and researcher into sustainable energy, electric and hydrogen powered vehicles, renewable generation and distributed electrification. He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where he graduated with a BSc, with distinction,in Engineering in 1986. He followed this with research into development of a simulation environment for variable-speed drives, completing his PhD in 1991. He worked as an Assistant Engineer at Eskom and lectured on Electrical Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand. He came to Oxford in 1993, establishing the Electrical Power Group.
Research
Domestic energy He was Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy, which led to set up of Navetas Energy Management, an Oxford University spin-out that undertakes state of the art pattern recognition research to provide consumers of all types with better energy usage information.
Transport He was involved in the development of the Morgan LifeCar - the first ever Hydrogen sports car. Work on this led to work on electric motors and YASA Limited.
Renewable generation He worked with Low Carbon Hub - a social enterprise managing 24.3MW installed capacity of renewable energy projects, and with Project LEO - Local Energy Oxfordshire, bringing his experience to these projects. He was a director of Kepler Energy, a developer of Tidal stream generator systems.
Energy for development Research in this area included the Einstein refrigerator, attempting to improve the efficiency of the concept to produce a refrigerator suitable for use in rural areas without electricity, and potentially as a Vaccine cooler.
Personal life He was a member of Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford where his technical expertise was invaluable, particularly for the sound system used by the in-house Rockfish music group. He was the driving force behind the writing of the musical 'Mark My Works' - based on the Gospel of Mark, and directed its first production in 2006.
References
External links https://malcolm-mcculloch.muchloved.com/ https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/malcolm-mcculloch https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/remembering-malcolm-mcculloch https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TOwiOQ0AAAAJ&hl=en