There are about 200 senior researchers in Oxford Energy. These are listed below and can be filtered using the search bar above. You can also find the relevant contact person for a research theme by using the checkbox and selecting update.
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
Earth Resources: catalysis, CO2 hydrogenation to fuels
Bioenergy: biomass conversion
Solar: catalytic water splitting
Transport: Safety and Security Critical Software Systems
Energy Networks: Smart Electricity Tariffs and Load Shifting
Storage and Vectors: Machine Learning Approaches to Battery Management
Solar: Solar Photo-voltaic Prediction
Nuclear: materials degradation in fission and fusion.
Storage and vectors: hydrogen (HER, uptake, embrittlement), battery degradation
Transport: hydrogen transport and storage, corrosion in transport structural integrity, corrosion fatigue of wind turbine monopiles, life extension of offshore wind turbines
Energy Networks: Dynamic demand response.
Nuclear: Fusion theory, plasma physics
Storage and Transport: Electrolyte and interphase in battery chemistries beyond Li-ion, including:
Storage and Vectors: Electrolytes for supercapacitors
Demand & Efficiency Friction & friction reduction
Storage and Vectors: Lithium batteries
Transport: Electric motors
Solar: Organic and inorganic PV
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
Earth Resources: gas turbines, steam turbines, power generation
Nuclear: reactor cooling
Emerging Economies: efficient stoves, efficient cooking equipment
Transport: jet engines, rocket engines
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
Solar: Photovoltaics – improved transparent conducting oxides
Storage and Vectors: Characterisation of hydrides for hydrogen storage and sensing
Transport: Lower carbon transport technologies – power electronics, wide and ultra-wide band gap materials
Energy Networks: Mathematical modelling Statistical analysis of networks
Solar: Organic solar cells and novel PV concepts.
Contact person Solar
Emerging Economies: Development and environmental policies in Latin America. Indigenous peoples, infrastructure development, urbanization and megaprojects in the Amazon basin.
Energy Networks: Smart grids, distributed control, appliance disaggregation, energy usage profiling and prediction, artificial intelligence.