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.
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.
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
Solar: Photocatalysis
Law and Policy: Corporate Governance and Climate Change, Financial Regulation and Sustainability, Environmental Gatekeepers
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.
Demand and Efficiency: Scenario Modelling, Energy and Material Footprint, Embodied Energy
Economics, Policy & Politics: Circular Economy, Digital Economy
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
Solar: New molecular materials, dyes and organic semiconductors
Demand and efficiency: Chirality-based routes to optoelectronic devices with improved energy efficiency
Storage and vectors: Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage (MOST) materials
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