People

Benito Müller

Managing Director -Oxford Climate Policy

Economics, Policy & Politics: International climate change negotiations, developing countries, equity

Andreas Münch

Professor of Complex Materials

Solar: Modelling of production of organic solar cells from polymer solutions
Storage and Vectors: Modelling of fabrication process for nano-structured materials for batteries

Paul Newman

BP Professor of Information Engineering

Transport: autonomous cars, intelligent mobility

Robin Nicholas

Professor of Physics

Solar: Use of carbon nanohybrids, graphene and carbon nanotubes in organic and thin film PV. Development of ThermoPhotoVoltaics, TPV

Rebecca Nicholls

Associate Professor of Materials Modelling

Storage and Vectors: Battery materials

Transport: Fuel cell catalysts

Nakita Noel

EPSRC Research Fellow

Wind and Marine: Photovoltaics, materials synthesis, emerging semiconductor materials, thin-film crystallisation, Solar

Peter Norreys

Professor of Inertial Fusion Science

Nuclear: inertial confinement fusion, ultra-high density fusion fuel assembly, hot spot formation, coherent X-ray source development, particle acceleration using intense lasers, fast electron energy transport and deposition

Dermot O’Hare

Professor of Chemistry and Senior Tutor in Chemistry, Vice Master Academic Balliol College

Earth Resources: catalysis, CO2 hydrogenation to fuels
Bioenergy: biomass conversion
Solar: catalytic water splitting

Colin O’Halloran

Senior Researcher

Transport: Safety and Security Critical Software Systems

Michael A. Osborne

Dyson Associate Professor in Machine Learning

Energy Networks: Smart Electricity Tariffs and Load Shifting
Storage and Vectors: Machine Learning Approaches to Battery Management
Solar: Solar Photo-voltaic Prediction

Antonis Papachristodoulou

Associate Professor in Engineering Science

Energy Networks: Dynamic demand response.

Felix Parra

Associate Professor

Nuclear: Fusion theory, plasma physics

Mauro Pasta

Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow of Materials at St Edmund Hall

Storage and Transport: Materials chemistry and electrochemistry applied to energy storage and conversion devices.
Energy storage: Li and Na-ion batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors.
Energy conversion: power from salinity gradients (blue energy), seawater desalination and delithiation.
Electrocatalysis: organic molecules electroxidation, ORR and HER reactions, carbon dioxide sequestration and electroreduction.

Susan Perkin

Professor of Physical Chemistry

Storage and Vectors: Electrolytes for supercapacitors

Demand & Efficiency Friction & friction reduction

Colin Please

Professor of Applied Mathematics

Storage and Vectors: Lithium batteries
Transport: Electric motors
Solar: Organic and inorganic PV

Ingmar Posner

Principal Investigator

Transport: Machine learning methods for intelligent, user-centric energy management of EVs as well as autonomous systems in general
Demand & Efficiency: Machine learning methods for intelligent, user-centric energy management and modelling of energy consumption

Thomas Povey

Professor of Engineering Science and Tacchi Fellow in Engineering Science

Earth Resources: gas turbines, steam turbines, power generation
Nuclear: reactor cooling
Emerging Economies: efficient stoves, efficient cooking equipment
Transport: jet engines, rocket engines

Catherine Redgwell

Chichele Professor of Public International Law

Economics, Policy & Politics: Climate justice; shared responsibility; energy security
Earth Resources: International regulation, CCS
Wind and Marine: International regulation of offshore energy activities
Transport: International regulation of pipelines & ships
Nuclear: International regulation of nuclear safety and liability