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.
Heating and Cooling: Decarbonising heating and cooling using thermal/thermochemical energy storage, from materials to system integration, and their real-world applications.
Renewable Energy: Electric-chemicals conversion, Synergy of carbon capture and chemical production(hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol) by chemical looping.
Storage and Vectors:Large-scale energy storage using green chemicals.
Earth Resources: geothermal energy, critical metals, energy raw materials, disruptive mining strategies
Demand and Efficiency Reducing demand in buildings, use patterns; appliances and housing; fuel poverty; demand for energy and energy services, households and commercial;
Economics, Policy & Politics Effectiveness of policy; market transformation; interactions between energy and climate change policy.
Solar: PV device interfaces, Silicon solar cells, new interfacial layers for multijunction cells
Transport: Strategic transport-energy-environment modelling, Carbon and health; transport and mobility;
Demand and Efficiency: scenarios; integrated assessment of transport, and transport energy demand policy.
Storage and Vectors: Lithium batteries, Mechanics of Materials, Multiphysics Modelling
Earth Resources: Enhanced Oil Recovery; cavitation in fuels and lubricants
Solar: Operation of dye-sensitised cells; fabrication of polymer blended cells; contact resistance in silicon cells
Economics, Policy & Politics: The ethics of climate change.
Storage and Vectors: Batteries, including new electrode and electrolyte materials, interfaces, mechanisms
Transport: Batteries
Energy Networks: Storage
Solar: Theoretical analysis of the morphology and operation of photovoltaic materials.
Earth Resources: Coal seam gas modelling
Energy Networks: Pricing
Wind and Marine: Offshore wind, tidal energy, offshore foundation design, offshore geotechnics
Earth Resources: Offshore foundations, offshore pipelines, and geotechnical engineering
Transport: Energy management in electric vehicles and aircraft
Energy networks: distributed optimization and control
Earth Resources: Hydrocarbon exploration through geological analysis of 3D seismic data; unconventional hydrocarbons and the role of natural fractures in shale gas production; fluid migration in sedimentary basins; and the development of geological faults and fractures.
Economics, Policy & Politics: Role of Nuclear in Energy Policy, Political Issues
Nuclear: Fusion, Fission reactors, Fuel Cycle, Regulation
Storage and Vectors: lithium batteries
Solar: operation and manufacture
Storage and Vectors: New battery materials, new superconductors and new thermoelectrics
Demand and Efficiency