Wei Huang
Professor of Biological Engineering
Bioenergy: Synthetic biology, biofuels, CO2, SimCells
Demand and Efficiency: Biofuels
Solar: Synthetic biology
Storage and Vectors: Biofuels
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John Huber
Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Demand & Efficiency: energy harvesting for small scale applications
Peter Ireland
Director, Oxford Thermofluids Institute
Transport: Gas turbine technology including heat transfer, internal cooling cooling, film cooling, turbine tip clearance control, instrumentation, heat exchangers, and engine fire attack
Nuclear: Tokamak cooling
Saiful Islam
Professor of Materials Modelling
Storage and Vectors: New cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, solid electrolytes for lithium and sodium solid-state batteries
Solar: Perovskite materials for solar cells
Transport: Batteries for electric vehicles
Christian N Jardine
Honorary Research Associate
Economics, Policy & Politics: broad energy policy, promoting microgeneration, feed-in tariffs
Energy Networks: integration of microgeneration, demand side management, time of day tariffs and pricing
Emerging Economies: microgenertion, off-grid, micro-grids
Demand & Efficiency: domestic and commercial
Solar: technologies, economics, markets, policy mechanisms, technology learning, spinout: Joju Solar
Nick Jelley
Emeritus Professor
Solar: Solar concentrator for cooking; power generation
Emerging Economies: Solar concentrator for cooking; power generation
Storage and Vectors: Thermal
Hugh Jenkyns
Professor of Stratigraphy; Senior Research Fellow; Emeritus Professor
Earth Resources: The depositional context of carbon-rich sediments.
Michael Johnston
Professor of Physics
Solar: photo physics, next generation materials
Angus Johnston
Professor of Law
Economics, Policy & Politics: Legal requirements, law and policy on electricity markets
Earth Resources: Law and decision-making
Nuclear: Subsidies and legal rules
Storage and Vectors: Legal rules and regulators
Demand and Efficiency: Legal regimes, rules and incentives
Solar: Rules and policies
Colin Johnston
Director of commercial and industrial services, Department of Materials
Transport: advanced power trains, power electronics, batteries, high temperature electronics, electronic packaging
Storage and Vectors: electrochemical, scalable processing, capacitors, supercaps
Energy Networks: power electronics
Mike Kendall
Professor of Geophysics
Nuclear: Storage of radioactive waste. Seismic methods for characterising and monitoring sites. Geophysical methods for ground surveys before and during power plant construction.
Contact person Earth Resources
Radhika Khosla
Associate Professor; Research Director of Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
Energy: Cooling
Dr Radhika Khosla is the Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Research Fellow at Somerville College.
Oxford Martin School’s interdisciplinary and multi-country programme on the Future of Cooling
Contact person Emerging Economies
Angus Kirkland
Professor of Materials
Transport: Automotive catalysts, fuel cells
Tim Kruger
Oxford Martin Fellow, Oxford Geoengineering Programme
Economics, Policy & Politics: Geoengineering, carbon pricing
Wind and Marine: Ocean alkalinity enhancement
Nuclear: Storing nuclear heat
Electricity Networks: energy storage
Storage and Vectors: ‘Chemical pump storage’
Bioenergy: Reducing water requirements for biofuel production
Vladimir Kuznetsov
Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry
Solar: Transparent conducting oxides
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen storage materials
Demand and Efficiency: Hydrogen economy, thermoelectric materials
Earth Resources: Catalysts for CO2 reduction
James Kwan
Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Storage and Vectors: hydrogen production from water and ammonia.
Green Chemistry: catalytic sonochemistry for CO2 reduction reactions, advanced oxidation processes, and selective oxidation for chemical valorisation.
Marta Kwiatkowska
Professor of Computing Systems
Energy Networks: Modelling and predictive analysis for smart-grid
Demand and Efficiency: Modelling and quantitative verification and detailed analysis of energy usage
Felix Leach
Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Air Quality: Local air quality (particularly NOx)
Demand and Efficiency: Internal combustion engine efficiency
Bioenergy: Alcohol blended fuels, e-fuels
Earth Resources: Internal Combustion Engines
Transport Systems: Thermal propulsion systems