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.
Solar: Molecular Semiconductors for Sustainable Clean Energy Generation, Energetic Analysis of Electronic Materials for Solar Driven Photoconversion, Interface Engineering for High Performance Energy Storage Applications
Transport: Automotive catalysts, fuel cells
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
Solar: Transparent conducting oxides
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen storage materials
Demand and Efficiency: Hydrogen economy, thermoelectric materials
Earth Resources: Catalysts for CO2 reduction
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.
Energy Networks: Modelling and predictive analysis for smart-grid
Demand and Efficiency: Modelling and quantitative verification and detailed analysis of energy usage
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
Earth Resources: Resource availability and location; Earth Resources
Storage and Vectors: Sub-surface
Economics, Policy & Politics: Incumbent energy companies and their role in the energy transition
Transport: Vehicle dynamics, optimal control, driving simulators
Demand and Efficiency: energy conservation, heating decarbonisation, sustainable cooling, thermal energy storage, advanced building simulation, zero carbon climate-responsive buildings, climate-resilient cities.
Economics, Policy & Politics: Energy technologies, economics, politics, sociology and resources, and trade-offs between sustainability, affordability, reliability and security
Nuclear: Fusion
Nuclear: Environmental degradation and radiation-damage in fission and fusion reactors.
Economics, Policy & Politics: Politics and international relations of energy production and trade (governance in producer states, political distortion of energy trade), Russia and the Caspian Basin.
Earth Resources: Carbon capture and storage, oil and gas recovery, hydraulic fracture, hydrocarbon migration
Solar Energy: adoption, marketing and incentives
Storage and Vectors: Capacity planning, investment and integration with renewable energy
Transport: electric vehicles (infrastructure planning and adoption), alternative business models (e.g., car sharing)
Demand and Efficiency: Distributed energy management in building networks. Optimal charging control of electric vehicles.
Energy Networks: Stochastic optimal power flow and unit commitment
Energy Economics: Pricing in demand response mechanisms
Nuclear: Materials degradation and materials for Generation IV fission and fusion.
Contact person Nuclear
Earth Resources: Foundations for offshore structures
Wind and Marine: Subsea pipe-soil interaction.