Michael Johnston
Professor of Physics
Solar: photo physics, next generation materials
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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
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
Ji-Seon Kim
Professor of Electronic Materials
Solar: Molecular Semiconductors for Sustainable Clean Energy Generation, Energetic Analysis of Electronic Materials for Solar Driven Photoconversion, Interface Engineering for High Performance Energy Storage Applications
Angus Kirkland
Professor of Materials
Transport: Automotive catalysts, fuel cells
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
Vladimir Kuznetsov
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
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.
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
Felix Leach
Associate Professor of Engineering Science
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
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
David Limebeer
Professor of Control Engineering
Transport: Vehicle dynamics, optimal control, driving simulators
Jesus Lizana
Associate Professor
Demand and Efficiency: energy conservation, heating decarbonisation, sustainable cooling, thermal energy storage, advanced building simulation, zero carbon climate-responsive buildings, climate-resilient cities.
Chris Llewellyn Smith (Sir)
Emeritus Professor, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
Economics, Policy & Politics: Energy technologies, economics, politics, sociology and resources, and trade-offs between sustainability, affordability, reliability and security
Nuclear: Fusion
Sergio Lozano-Perez
George Kelley Professor of Materials
Nuclear: Environmental degradation and radiation-damage in fission and fusion reactors.
Neil Macfarlane
Lester B Pearson Professor of International Relations
Economics, Policy & Politics: Politics and international relations of energy production and trade (governance in producer states, political distortion of energy trade), Russia and the Caspian Basin.
Chris MacMinn
Associate Head of Department (People)
Earth Resources: Carbon capture and storage, oil and gas recovery, hydraulic fracture, hydrocarbon migration
Ho-Yin Mak
Associate Scholar
Solar Energy: adoption, marketing and incentives
Storage and Vectors: Capacity planning, investment and integration with renewable energy
Transport: electric vehicles (infrastructure planning and adoption), alternative business models (e.g., car sharing)