Julie Cosmidis
Associate Professor of Geobiology
Storage and Vectors: microbial composites for energy storage (Li-S battery materials)
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Mike Daly
Visiting Professor
Earth Resources: the global oil and gas endowment; the future of petroleum exploration; continental sedimentary basin development and resource distribution; exploration of the arctic seas.
Emerging Economies: Sub-Saharan Africa resources; the energy-water nexus.
Economics, Policy & Politics: State owned National Oil Companies, their resources and future.
Sarah Darby
Senior Researcher, Energy Group, Environmental Change Institute
Economics-Policy & Politics: Customer-utility relations, fuel poverty
Energy Networks: Smart meter rollout
Demand and Efficiency: Residential demand, energy advice programmes, consumption feedback, and social learning
Richard Darton
Emeritus Professor of Engineering Science
Transport: Car fleet sustainability, health effects of pollution
Economics, Policy & Politics: Defining and measuring energy security
Emerging Economies: Nigerian energy economy
Demand and Efficiency: Heat exchanger networks and pinch analysis
Earth Resources: Negative emissions technologies; assessment of geoengineering schemes
Bill David
Professor of Chemistry
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen and ammonia storage with a particular emphasis on lightweight, reversible systems. Modelling ionic diffusion in hydrogen storage systems, batteries and fuel-cell electrodes.
Transport: Hydrogen provision for fuel-cell electric vehicles
Energy Networks: Chemical storage based on hydrogen
Stephen Davies
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
Storage and Vectors: chemical, nitrogen based
Ben Davis
Professor in Organic Chemistry
Storage and Vectors: Synthetic photoproteins, enzymes for shuttle manipulation, use of formic acid as a shuttle.
Martin Davy
Associate Professor
Earth Resources: Spark ignition engine combustion, low temperature diesel combustion, natural gas engine combustion, fuel sprays
Demand and Efficiency: Internal combustion engine efficiency
Bioenergy: Alcohol blended fuels, use of syngas in engines.
Paul Dellar
University Lecturer
Nuclear: fusion theory, plasma physics
Dong (Lilly) Liu
Associate Professor
Nuclear
Stephen Duncan
Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Storage and Vectors: Battery management systems
Energy Networks: Battery management systems, monitoring stress on the grid
Daniel Eakins
Associate Professor of Engineering Science
Wind and Marine: Shock physics and hydrodynamics
Solar: Granular and heterogeneous materials
Nuclear: Ultrafast X-ray probing of extreme states
Daniel researches the ultrafast behaviour of materials under extreme loading conditions, including impact mechanics, dynamic strength, incipient plasticity, failure, Ultrafast X-ray probing of extreme states, hexagonal materials, shock-induced chemistry, and shock-energy dissipation and management.
Peter Edwards
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Solar: Transparent conducting coatings for solar cells; solar chemical fuels from CO2
Earth Resources: Sustainability in the modern petrochemical industry
Bioenergy: Algae jet biofuel
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen and ammonia storage materials
Russell Egdell
Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Solar: Photocatalysis
Luca Enriques
Professor of Corporate Law
Law and Policy: Corporate Governance and Climate Change, Financial Regulation and Sustainability, Environmental Gatekeepers
Nick Eyre
Professor of Energy and Climate Policy
Chair, Energy Research Network Steering Group, Oxford Energy
Economics, Policy & Politics: Energy efficiency and demand reduction policy, multi-scalar governance, market based instruments, carbon markets, UK energy policy, community and local projects
Energy Networks: Energy efficiency obligations and feed-in tariffs, demand response and reduction in capacity markets;
Demand and Efficiency: Energy demand in all sectors, socio-technical approaches; policy interventions.
Doyne Farmer
Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science and Director of Complexity Economics, Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School
Economics: Forecasting technology improvement, green energy transition, financial instability, agent-based macromodeling
Earth Resources: Historical costs of coal-fired electricity
Nuclear: Pros and cons
Solar: Cost forecasts
Stephen Faulkner
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Nuclear: Chemistry of the fuel cycle elements, development of spectroscopic techniques for remote monitoring of speciation and for environmental analysis/remediation and study of minor actinide separation.
Chemistry: Informing scientific strategies and underpinning clean and green sustainable technologies that improve our environment and mitigate climate change.