People

Ingmar Posner

Professor of Applied AI, Principal Investigator - A2I

Transport: Machine learning methods for intelligent, user-centric energy management of EVs as well as autonomous systems in general
Demand & Efficiency: Machine learning methods for intelligent, user-centric energy management and modelling of energy consumption

Thomas Povey

Professor of Engineering Science, Tacchi Fellow in Engineering Science

Earth Resources: gas turbines, steam turbines, power generation
Nuclear: reactor cooling
Emerging Economies: efficient stoves, efficient cooking equipment
Transport: jet engines, rocket engines

Catherine Redgwell

Emeritus Chichele Professor of Public International Law

Economics, Policy & Politics: Climate justice; shared responsibility; energy security
Earth Resources: International regulation, CCS
Wind and Marine: International regulation of offshore energy activities
Transport: International regulation of pipelines & ships
Nuclear: International regulation of nuclear safety and liability

Gesine Reinert

Professor of Statistics

Energy Networks: Mathematical modelling Statistical analysis of networks

Moritz Riede

Professor of Soft Functional Nanomaterials

Solar: Organic solar cells and novel PV concepts.

Laura Rival

Professor of Anthropology of Development

Emerging Economies: Development and environmental policies in Latin America. Indigenous peoples, infrastructure development, urbanization and megaprojects in the Amazon basin.

Stephen Roberts

Professor of Machine Learning

Energy Networks: Smart grids, distributed control, appliance disaggregation, energy usage profiling and prediction, artificial intelligence.

Dan Rogers

Associate Head of Department (Infrastructure), Associate Professor of Engineering Science

Energy Networks: Power electronic systems for smart girds; high-voltage direct current transmission systems and converters.

Storage and Transport: Grid interfaces for large-scale energy storage systems, battery management systems

Ronald A Roy

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Areas: physical acoustics, power ultrasonics, cavitation, inertial fusion

Bioenergy: Microbiological energy conversion

Nuclear: ICF

Transport: Thermoacoustics, power ultrasonics

Alexander Schekochihin

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Theoretical Astrophysics and Plasma Physics Group

Nuclear: fusion theory, plasma physics

Tim Schwanen

Director of the Transport Studies Unit, Professor of Transport Geography

Transport: Behaviour change, sociotechnical transition, and innovation in the field of transport.

Paul Shearing

Director, Zero Institute

Storage and Vectors: Specialisations – batteries and hydrogen

Henry Shue

Emeritus Fellow

Economics, Policy & Politics: Climate justice in exit from carbon energy regime to non-carbon regime

Andrew Smith

Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences

Bioenergy: Stress-tolerant crop plants, novel biomass sources, and energy conversion efficiency.

George Smith

Emeritus Professor of Materials

Nuclear: Atomic-scale studies of materials degradation
Storage and Vectors: Hydrogen conversion

Jason Smith

Associate Head of Department (Infrastructure) Professor of Photonic Materials and Devices

Solar: Semiconductor nanocrystals, plasmonics

Henry Snaith

Professor of Physics

Solar: Photovoltaics, Optoelectronic devices, Spectroscopy, Nanomaterials

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations

Economics, Policy & Politics: Energy security, national oil companies, governance of energy markets, transparency
Emerging Economies: Extractive industries in Africa, Asian hydrocarbons investment in the developing world, politics of major energy importers.