People

Andrew Smith

Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences

Bioenergy: Stress-tolerant crop plants, novel biomass sources, and energy conversion efficiency.

George Smith

Emeritus Professor of Materials

Nuclear: Atomic-scale studies of materials degradation
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen conversion

Jason Smith

Associate Head of Department (Infrastructure) Professor of Photonic Materials and Devices

Solar: Semiconductor nanocrystals, plasmonics

Henry Snaith

Professor of Physics

Solar: Photovoltaics, Optoelectronic devices, Spectroscopy, Nanomaterials

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations

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.

Sugandha Srivastav

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate in Climate Compatible Growth

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

Michail Stamatakis

Professor of Computational Inorganic Chemistry

Theoretical and computational modelling of heterogeneous catalytic processes for energy conversion and storage

Harrison Steel

Associate Professor of Engineering Science

Bioenergy: Control bacteria for carbon sequestration and processing, Biofuel manufacturing

Fossil fuels: Carbon capture and processing, Bio-remediation, Biofuels, Evolution in changing environments

Ludmilla Steier

Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

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

Richard Stone

Emeritus Professor, Honorary Researcher

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

James Taylor

Professor of Decision Science

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.

Ian Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Engineering Science

Bioenergy: Biogas, Microbiological conversion of green waste to methane
Emerging Economies: Anaerobic Digestion grid systems

Anne E. Trefethen

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for People and Digital

Demand and efficiency: monitoring and optimising computing and software systems

Edman Tsang

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

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

Jack Umenberger

Senior Research Fellow

storage and vectors: battery energy storage systems
energy networks: grid-scale optimization and control

Rick van der Ploeg

Professor of Economics Research Director of OXCARRE

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.

Tony Venables

Director of OXCARRE, Senior Research Fellow (Honorary)

Economics: Resource management, developing countries

Marc Ventresca

Associate Professor of Strategic Management

Economics, Policy & Politics: Ecosystem services markets in Amazon Peru
Emerging Economies: Off grid electric systems in Africa