People

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

Professorial Research Fellow

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 Organometallic and Materials, Chemistry Director SCG-Oxford Centre of Excellence, MPLS Associate Head for Research, Business Engagement & Innovation

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

Professor of Machine Learning

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

Emilio Martinez-Paneda

Associate Professor of Engineering Science

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

Antonis Papachristodoulou

Associate Professor in Engineering Science

Energy Networks: Dynamic demand response.

Felix Parra

Professor of Physics

Nuclear: Fusion theory, plasma physics

Mauro Pasta

Professor of Applied Electrochemistry

Storage and Transport: Electrolyte and interphase in battery chemistries beyond Li-ion, including:

• Solid-state batteries
• Li-metal anode
• Conversion cathodes
• High-voltage Li-ion cathodes
• K-ion batteries

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

Professor of Applied AI, Principal Investigator - A2I

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, 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

Emeritus 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

Anna Regoutz

Associate Professor of Experimental Inorganic Chemistry

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

Gesine Reinert

Professor of Statistics

Energy Networks: Mathematical modelling Statistical analysis of networks

Moritz Riede

Professor of Soft Functional Nanomaterials

Solar: Organic solar cells and novel PV concepts.