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.
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.
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