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.
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
Wind and Marine: Wind power forecasting
Demand and Efficiency: Electricity demand forecasting, weather ensemble predictions
Energy Networks: Electricity demand and price forecasting, and forecasting for smart grids.
Bioenergy: Biogas, Microbiological conversion of green waste to methane
Emerging Economies: Anaerobic Digestion grid systems
Demand and efficiency: monitoring and optimising computing and software systems
Earth Resources: Green Fuels Catalysis
Bioenergy: Catalytic Biomass Conversion
Transport: Fuel Cells Catalysts and Hydrogen
Solar: Solar fuels, Photocatalysis
Emerging Economies: Biofuels from oils, sugars, vegetation
storage and vectors: battery energy storage systems
energy networks: grid-scale optimization and control
Economics, Policy & Politics: Climate policies, optimal transitions to a carbon-free era, climate catastrophes
Emerging Economies: Managing oil and other resource windfalls, sovereign wealth funds, and investing to invest.
Economics: Resource management, developing countries
Economics, Policy & Politics: Ecosystem services markets in Amazon Peru
Emerging Economies: Off grid electric systems in Africa
Bioenergy: Biocatalysis of hydrogen oxidation/production; biocatalytic hydrogenation/dehydrogenation reactions; in situ studies of electrocatalysis by supported nanoparticles
Nuclear: Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Physics
Demand and Efficiency: energy services, digitalisation, AI impacts, social influence
Energy Networks: smart technologies, integrating renewables, small-scale technologies
Energy Networks: Distribution Network operational enhancement
Demand and Efficiency: Demand Management, consumer energy utilisation, ICT system efficiency