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: 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
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.
Economics, Policy & Politics: UK & EU, energy demand, personal carbon trading, equity, fuel poverty
Demand and Efficiency: Households, non-domestic sectors, technology, behaviour
Computational Condensed Matter Physics:
excited state properties of semiconductors and insulators
optoelectronic properties of semiconductors and insulators
materials design and discovery
Economics, Policy & Politics: Research on energy megaprojects, risk management, biases and strategic misrepresenation in decision-making on large-scale energy capital investment projects.
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen for fuel cells, electrolytic water splitting, supercapacitors
Solar
Earth Resources: A long-term perspective on the climate-energy nexus
Economics, Policy & Politics: Fuel-rich economies
Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
Demand & Efficiency: Energy-efficient computing
Earth Resources: Synthesis, Catalysis, Energy and sustainable chemistry
Storage and Vectors:Advanced functional materials and interfaces
Emerging Economies: Agriculture, growth, energy inputs
Economics, Policy & Politics: World food prices and relation to energy prices
Transport: Economics
Storage and Vectors: Li-Ion Batteries, stress fatigue analysis
Solar: Organic PV and cells design
Demand & Efficiency: Optimal building control. Load shifting and demand management.
Networks: Power flow optimisation.
Economics: Pricing of renewables in energy markets.
Storage and Vectors: novel manufacture of supercapacitor and battery electrodes
Nuclear: processing of advanced metallics for fusion and fission
Transport: manufacture of high temperature aeroengine materials and lightweight airframe alloys
Nuclear: Inertial confinement fusion and plasma physics.
Energy Networks: Smart meters and low voltage networks
Demand and Efficiency: consumer segregation and response and real time forecasting.
Storage and Vectors: Super-capacitors
Bioenergy: biocatalysts
Solar: 0D, 1D, 2D nanomaterials
Nuclear: ODS alloys, fuel cladding, radiation damage and bubble lattices
Storage and Vectors: superconducting materials.
Demand and Efficiency: demand observation and intervention, demand response and flexibility, smart meter data, activity data, non-intrusive monitoring
Economics, Policy & Politics: low carbon transition, strategic policy development
Energy Networks: fractal grids, LV load prediction
Storage and Vectors: emission estimation, techno-economic modelling in future systems, market and system value, stakeholder attitudes, policy and regulation
Current Projects:
– Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory (EDOL
– Justice, Energy, Demand flexibility and AI for Sustainability (JED-AI)