
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.


Charles Monroe
Professor of Engineering Science
Storage and Transport
Demand and Efficiency
Energy Networks: storage for potential applications to grids in response to increasing penetration of renewables

Michael Moody
Head of Atom Probe Research Group
Nuclear: Atom probe characterization of structural materials for fission and fusion reactors
Solar: Atom probe characterization of photovoltaic devices

Robin Morris
Institute of Physics Fellow

Thomas Morstyn
Associate Professor in Power Systems
Energy Networks: Power system control and optimisation
Economics, Policy & Politics: Energy market design
Storage and Vectors: Grid energy storage, electric vehicles
Demand and Efficiency: Demand flexibility, smart local energy systems

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
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