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.
Energy Networks: Power electronic systems for smart girds; high-voltage direct current transmission systems and converters.
Storage and Transport: Grid interfaces for large-scale energy storage systems, battery management systems
Demand and Efficiency: energy demand across all sectors, energy efficiency, demand response, electrification
Energy Networks: gas and electricity network regulation, district heating
Economics, Policy & Politics: energy efficiency and demand reduction policy, market-based instruments, electrification policies, energy and carbon taxation
Areas: physical acoustics, power ultrasonics, cavitation, inertial fusion
Bioenergy: Microbiological energy conversion
Nuclear: ICF
Transport: Thermoacoustics, power ultrasonics
Nuclear: fusion theory, plasma physics
Transport: Behaviour change, sociotechnical transition, and innovation in the field of transport.
Contact person Transport
Storage and Vectors: Specialisations – batteries and hydrogen
Economics, Policy & Politics: Climate justice in exit from carbon energy regime to non-carbon regime
Bioenergy: Stress-tolerant crop plants, novel biomass sources, and energy conversion efficiency.
Contact person Bioenergy
Nuclear: Atomic-scale studies of materials degradation
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen conversion
Solar: Semiconductor nanocrystals, plasmonics
Solar: Photovoltaics, Optoelectronic devices, Spectroscopy, Nanomaterials
Economics, Policy & Politics: Energy security, national oil companies, governance of energy markets, transparency
Emerging Economies: Extractive industries in Africa, Asian hydrocarbons investment in the developing world, politics of major energy importers.
Financing Renewable Energy: feed-in tariffs, power purchase agreements, auctions, and subsidies
Supply-side policy: coal phaseout auctions, restricting permits for fossil fuel development, legal reforms for land acquisition law for fossil fuels
Energy innovation: R&D tax credits, carbon pricing, policy interactions, patent analysis, spillovers
Theoretical and computational modelling of heterogeneous catalytic processes for energy conversion and storage
Bioenergy: Control bacteria for carbon sequestration and processing, Biofuel manufacturing
Fossil fuels: Carbon capture and processing, Bio-remediation, Biofuels, Evolution in changing environments
Solar: solar energy conversion via photo(electro)catalysis and PV-driven electrocatalysis
Bioenergy: design of photo- and electrocatalysts for synthesis of solar fuels and chemicals from water, CO2 and waste products
Earth Resources: Spark ignition engine combustion, particulate matter emissions, laminar burning velocity measurements
Demand and Efficiency: Spark ignition engine efficiency, oil-free refrigeration systems, Stirling engines
Bioenergy: Use of ethanol
Solar: Solar concentrators
Solar: Investigation of spin and photo physics of energy conversion in organic photovoltaic devices and photocatalysis.