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.

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Peter Ireland

Director, Oxford Thermofluids Institute; Donald Schultz Chair in Turbomachinery

Transport: Gas turbine technology including heat transfer, internal cooling cooling, film cooling, turbine tip clearance control, instrumentation, heat exchangers, and engine fire attack
Nuclear: Tokamak cooling

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Saiful Islam

Professor of Materials Science

Storage and Vectors: New cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, solid electrolytes for lithium and sodium solid-state batteries

Solar: Perovskite materials for solar cells

Transport: Batteries for electric vehicles

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Christian N Jardine

Senior Researcher

Economics, Policy & Politics: broad energy policy, promoting microgeneration, feed-in tariffs
Energy Networks: integration of microgeneration, demand side management, time of day tariffs and pricing
Emerging Economies: microgenertion, off-grid, micro-grids
Demand & Efficiency: domestic and commercial
Solar: technologies, economics, markets, policy mechanisms, technology learning, spinout: Joju Solar

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Nick Jelley

Emeritus ProfessorProfessor in Physics

Solar: Solar concentrator for cooking; power generation
Emerging Economies: Solar concentrator for cooking; power generation
Storage and Vectors: Thermal

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Hugh Jenkyns

Professor of Stratigraphy

Earth Resources: The depositional context of carbon-rich sediments.

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Angus Johnston

Professor of Law

Economics, Policy & Politics: Legal requirements, law and policy on electricity markets
Earth Resources: Law and decision-making
Nuclear: Subsidies and legal rules
Storage and Vectors: Legal rules and regulators
Demand and Efficiency: Legal regimes, rules and incentives
Solar: Rules and policies

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Colin Johnston

Senior Research Fellow

Transport: advanced power trains, power electronics, batteries, high temperature electronics, electronic packaging
Storage and Vectors: electrochemical, scalable processing, capacitors, supercaps
Energy Networks: power electronics

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Mike Kendall

Professor of Geophysics

Nuclear: Storage of radioactive waste. Seismic methods for characterising and monitoring sites. Geophysical methods for ground surveys before and during power plant construction.

Contact person Earth Resources
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Radhika Khosla

Associate Professor; Research Director of Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development

Energy: Cooling

Dr Radhika Khosla is the Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Research Fellow at Somerville College.

Oxford Martin School’s interdisciplinary and multi-country programme on the Future of Cooling

Contact person Emerging Economies
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Angus Kirkland

Professor of Materials - Oxford Electron Image Analysis Grou

Transport: Automotive catalysts, fuel cells

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Tim Kruger

Oxford Martin Fellow, Oxford Geoengineering Programme

Economics, Policy & Politics: Geoengineering, carbon pricing
Wind and Marine: Ocean alkalinity enhancement
Nuclear: Storing nuclear heat
Electricity Networks: energy storage
Storage and Vectors: ‘Chemical pump storage’
Bioenergy: Reducing water requirements for biofuel production

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Vladimir Kuznetsov

Head of Teaching Laboratory and Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry

Solar: Transparent conducting oxides
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen storage materials
Demand and Efficiency: Hydrogen economy, thermoelectric materials
Earth Resources: Catalysts for CO2 reduction

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James Kwan

Associate Professor of Engineering Science

Storage and Vectors: hydrogen production from water and ammonia.

Green Chemistry: catalytic sonochemistry for CO2 reduction reactions, advanced oxidation processes, and selective oxidation for chemical valorisation.

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Marta Kwiatkowska

Professor of Computing Systems

Energy Networks: Modelling and predictive analysis for smart-grid
Demand and Efficiency: Modelling and quantitative verification and detailed analysis of energy usage

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Felix Leach

Associate Professor

Air Quality: Local air quality (particularly NOx)

Demand and Efficiency: Internal combustion engine efficiency

Bioenergy: Alcohol blended fuels, e-fuels

Earth Resources: Internal Combustion Engines

Transport Systems: Thermal propulsion systems

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Bruce Levell

Visiting Professor

Earth Resources: Resource availability and location; Earth Resources
Storage and Vectors: Sub-surface
Economics, Policy & Politics: Incumbent energy companies and their role in the energy transition

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David Limebeer

Professor of Control Engineering

Transport: Vehicle dynamics, optimal control, driving simulators