People

Nick Eyre

Emeritus 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.

Dr Yee Van Fan

Senior Researcher in Digitalisation, Circular Economy and Net Zero

Demand and Efficiency: Scenario Modelling, Energy and Material Footprint, Embodied Energy

Economics, Policy & Politics: Circular Economy, Digital Economy

Doyne Farmer

Director of Complexity Economics

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

Head of Department

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.

Tina Fawcett

Associate Professor, Deputy Group Leader, Energy Programme, ECI

Economics, Policy & Politics: UK & EU, energy demand, personal carbon trading, equity, fuel poverty
Demand and Efficiency: Households, non-domestic sectors, technology, behaviour

Marina Filip

Associate Professor

Computational Condensed Matter Physics:

excited state properties of semiconductors and insulators
optoelectronic properties of semiconductors and insulators
materials design and discovery

Bent Flyvbjerg

Emeritus Professor

Economics, Policy & Politics: Research on energy megaprojects, risk management, biases and strategic misrepresenation in decision-making on large-scale energy capital investment projects.

John Foord

Professor of Chemistry

Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen for fuel cells, electrolytic water splitting, supercapacitors
Solar

Jörg Friedrichs

Associate Professor of Politics

Earth Resources: A long-term perspective on the climate-energy nexus
Economics, Policy & Politics: Fuel-rich economies

Rachel Carson Environment Book Award

Mike Giles

Professor of Scientific Computing

Demand & Efficiency: Energy-efficient computing

Jose Goicoechea

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

Earth Resources: Synthesis, Catalysis,  Energy and sustainable chemistry
Storage and Vectors:Advanced functional materials and interfaces 

Doug Gollin

Senior Research Fellow

Emerging Economies: Agriculture, growth, energy inputs
Economics, Policy & Politics: World food prices and relation to energy prices
Transport: Economics

Alain Goriely

Director of External Relations and Public Engagement

Storage and Vectors: Li-Ion Batteries, stress fatigue analysis
Solar: Organic PV and cells design

Paul Goulart

Professor of Engineering Science

Demand & Efficiency: Optimal building control. Load shifting and demand management.
Networks: Power flow optimisation.
Economics: Pricing of renewables in energy markets.

Patrick Grant

Vesuvius Chair of Materials, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)

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

Gianluca Gregori

Professor of Physics

Nuclear: Inertial confinement fusion and plasma physics.

Peter Grindrod

Professor of Mathematics

Energy Networks: Smart meters and low voltage networks
Demand and Efficiency: consumer segregation and response and real time forecasting.

Nicole Grobert

Professor of Nanomaterials

Storage and Vectors: Super-capacitors
Bioenergy: biocatalysts
Solar: 0D, 1D, 2D nanomaterials