Consortium Members
University of Bath
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Professor Geoffrey Hammond (Co-Principal Investigator) is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Founder Director of the University of Bath's Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment. His current research is focused on the technology assessment of energy system and transitional pathways towards a low carbon future. He is the joint recipient of the Dufton Silver Medal and the George Stephenson Prize for publications in his field. Over recent years, he has advised British Government Departments, Agencies and Parliamentary Committees. He sits on the Editorial Boards and Organising or Scientific Committees for several archival journals and international conferences in the area of energy and the environment
Email: G.P.Hammond@bath.ac.uk
Website: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensgph/
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Dr Miles Davis (Project Manager) is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Programme Manager in the Research Development & Support Office at Bath. Miles acts as the interface between academics and companies to develop projects that are strategically important to both the Companies and the university. He is responsible for developing and supporting these programmes and securing Industry, Government or Research Council Funding. Miles has a background in project management and commercial experience with the environmental consultancy WRc. He has a PhD is from Imperial College in the field of Environmental Toxicology.
Email: m.davis@bath.ac.uk
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Cardiff University
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Professor Peter Pearson (Co-Principal Investigator) is based at Cardiff University. He directs the Low Carbon Research Institute of Wales (LCRI), a collaboration of research teams in six Welsh universities, with a £50 m research portfolio. He previously directed the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT) at Imperial College. Since the 1980s his research has addressed past and prospective long-run energy transitions. He has been Chair of the British Institute of Energy Economics, a member of the EC’s Framework Programme Advisory Group on Energy, acted as a Specialist Adviser on to a House of Commons Select Committee, and is an expert adviser/consultant to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel. He was invited to give The Queen’s Lecture 2007 at the Technical University of Berlin, as successor to Lord Rees, President of the Royal Society.
Email: pearsonpj@cardiff.ac.uk
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Dr Anna Carlsson-Hyslop is working as a Research Associate in the Historical Analysis Workstream of the Transition Pathways project with Peter Pearson. Anna is based in the Low Carbon Research Institute at Cardiff University. Early in 2011 she finished her PhD at the Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. Her PhD was a historical study of the statistical forecasting of coastal flooding done by mathematicians and oceanographers at the Liverpool Tidal Institute between 1919 and 1959. As an undergraduate she studied Geography at Bristol University and she has also worked with social research and as a transport planner.
Email: HyslopAC@cardiff.ac.uk
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Dr Judith Thornton is is working as a Research Associate in the Historical Analysis Workstream of the Transition Pathways project with Peter Pearson. Judith's current work is on the significance of branching points in transition pathways to a low carbon economy. She is also investigating the history of London sewers (1850-1900). Prior to coming to Cardiff, she undertook research into water efficient buildings, low impact water and sewage treatment systems, the energy impacts of hot water systems and undertook life cycle assessment (LCA) on rainwater harvesting systems.
Email: ThorntonJM@cardiff.ac.uk
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Imperial College London
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Professor Goran Strbac is a Professor of Electrical Energy Systems at Imperial College. He is the Director of the DTI Centre for Distributed Generation and Sustainable Electrical Energy and a member of the Executive Team of the IEE Professional Network on Power Trading and Control. Goran will be participating in the Infrastructures and Transitions workstreams in the project.
Email: g.strbac@imperial.ac.uk
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Dr Marko Aunedi is a Research Assistant at Imperial College London. His area of research covers generation scheduling under uncertainty, system operation with high penetration of renewable and less flexible generation, characterisation of virtual power plants and pricing issues in electricity markets.
Email: m.aunedi@imperial.ac.uk
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Dr Danny Pudjianto is a Research Fellow at Imperial College London. His expertise is in the development of complex optimisation techniques and algorithms for system (generation, transmission, and distribution network) planning and operation with more than 10 years experience. His relevant previous work include grid modelling, simulation studies and power system analysis for the “Roadmap 2050 studies” commissioned by European Climate Foundation, and “Revision of the trans-European energy network policy (TEN-E)” project commissioned by European Commission. He also involved in the development of alternative planning and operational standards addressing the challenges of integrating a large penetration of renewable generation into power system. He is a member of IEEE, IET and the author / co-author of more than 38 journals/conference papers.
Email: d.pudjianto@imperial.ac.uk
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Loughborough University
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Dr John Barton is a Research Associate at CREST, Loughborough University. John Barton received his first degree in Engineering in 1989, from Cambridge University (Jesus College) with specialisation in mechanical design, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Upon graduating, John worked for Rolls-Royce plc (aero engine division) in Derby for 11 years, working in the design, research and development of compressors and fans. There he performed computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis, test data analysis, computer aided design (CAD) and project managed the manufacturing process. John moved to Loughborough University in 2000 to study Renewable Energy. In 2001 he received an MSc with distinction. He stayed at CREST to do a PhD in renewable energy: Modelling energy storage in electricity systems with intermittent renewable energy. John received his doctorate in 2007 and is now a research associate in the fields of distributed generation, smart metering, demand-side management and whole UK energy system modelling. John is a director of Bryte Energy Ltd, an energy consultancy with expertise in renewable energy and hydrogen. John is also a director of Air Fuel Synthesis Ltd, a company established to develop the production of synthetic liquid fuels from hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
Email: J.P.Barton@lboro.ac.uk
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Sarah Higginson is an experienced facilitator and trainer and her background has included more than fifteen years working with communities on issues including sustainability, local economic empowerment, democratic engagement, participatory processes and climate change. Sarah is currently an interdisciplinary PhD Researcher at CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology) at Loughborough University. She is interested in how flexible demand might impact on people’s domestic practices and the implications of this for balancing a more inflexible grid in a future dominated by intermittent renewables. She is using 24 hour ethnographic observations in 10 households to better understand current domestic energy use and will then ask people to shift their energy practices and assess the impact of this on their day-to-day lives.
Email: S.L.Higginson@lboro.ac.uk
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Dr Murray Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Networks and Systems and is a part of the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems and Technology (CREST). He is an electrical engineer with particular interest in the Integration of Renewables into existing electrical power systems. He specialises in the analysis of low-voltage distribution networks and the development of flexible demand as a means of grid balancing in future low-carbon power systems incorporating high penetrations of intermittent wind, marine and solar power. Murray’ s research interests are within distribution network modelling, microgeneration (particularly PV), domestic demand modelling and demand side management and distributed automatic voltage control. Murray will be chiefly working within theme 2 of the project.
Email: M.thomson@lboro.ac.uk
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Professor Simon Watson is a Professor of wind energy and is the director of the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems and Technology (CREST) at Loughborough. His research interests include the application of storage with renewable energy generation in a power system, novel methodologies for condition monitoring of offshore wind farms, modelling the impact of wind power on electricity transmission networks and assessing the impact of climate change on the electricity supply industry. He is a member of the European Academy for Wind Energy and is a board member of the European Renewable Energy Research Centres Agency (EUREC). Simon will be working in the Sustainable Generation and Infrastructures workstreams of the project. Email: s.j.watson@lboro.ac.uk |
University of East Anglia
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Professor Jacquie Burgess is the Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk (CER) at the University of East Anglia. Jacquie has an international reputation as a cultural geographer. Her research focuses on the way in which culture mediates relationships between environment and society. In addition to her innovative work on the use of group and deliberative processes at the interface between citizens, science and policy, she is also engaged in work that aims to bring about change in environmentally significant consumption behaviours. Jacquie will be leading the Participation and Integration & Learning workstreams within the project.
Email: jacquie.burgess@uea.ac.uk
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Dr Jason Chilvers is a Lecturer in Environmental Social Science and co-lead of the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Group in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. His research spans governance, appraisal and public engagement relating to science, technology and environmental risk, including the areas of sustainability, energy, waste, and emerging technologies. He has taken up advisory roles for Defra, BIS/Sciencewise-ERC, the Environment Agency, was appointed to the Royal Society Kohn Award for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science Panel in 2008, and recently directed a two-year ESRC international seminar series on ‘Critical public engagement’ (2009-2011).
Email: jason.chilvers@uea.ac.uk
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Dr Noel Longhurst is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia where he is a member of the Science, Society and Sustainability Research Group. Trained as a Human Geographer, his research interests include the role that different actors play in sustainability transitions, in particular the role of civil society groups and social movements.
Email: n.longhurst@uea.ac.uk
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University of Leeds
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Dr Timothy J. Foxon is a Reader in Sustainability and Innovation at the Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK, and a member of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. He was previously a Research Councils UK Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds, and a Research Associate/Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London. His research explores technological and social factors relating to innovation of new energy technologies, and analysis of the co-evolution of technologies and institutions for a transition to a low carbon economy. He has been lead or co-author on a number of reports for UK and international policy-makers, and his work been published in leading academic journals and edited books. He is leading Theme 1 of the project on ‘Transitions, scenarios and historical analysis’.
Email: t.j.foxon@leeds.ac.uk
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Dr Helen Harwatt is a Research Fellow in the School of Earth and the Environment at the University of Leeds. Helen completed her PhD at the Institute for Transport Studies in 2008. This focussed on public response to a proposed Personal Carbon Trading scheme as a measure to significantly reduce carbon emissions in line with national carbon reduction targets and included both qualitative and quantitative survey and analysis techniques. Since 2006, she has worked on a range of projects focussed mainly on climate change and carbon demand reduction amongst the public through behavioural interventions and scenario work. From 2010, she has worked at the Sustainability Research Institute focussing on carbon demand reduction issues in relation to businesses and transition pathways towards a low carbon economy.
Email: h.harwatt@see.leeds.ac.uk
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University of Strathclyde
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Professor Graham Ault has been a Senior Lecturer in EEE since February 2005, working as a Senior Research Fellow and PhD student for the 8 years prior to that. He is active in energy research, electrical engineering teaching, schools liaison and various commercial activities for the university. His research interests include Distributed and Renewable Generation Power System Analysis, Computing and Economics Future Power Systems Asset Management and Condition Monitoring. Graham will be leading the Infrastructures workstream within the project.
Email: g.ault@eee.strath.ac.uk
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Dr Stuart Galloway is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. His core research interests spans aero electrical, marine electrical and energy electrical activities and includes strategic and applied research. He is a lead investigator on several major collaborative research programmes in the UK. He is an editorial board member for the newly established IET journal in Electrical Systems for Transportation. He has been involved in a number industrially funded research projects with Rolls-Royce plc., the European Union, and the EPSRC. His current research interests include the application of optimisation techniques to power engineering problems, the modelling of novel electrical power systems, market simulation and energy economics.
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Professor David Infield is a Professor of Renewable Energy Technologies at the University. Previously he was the Director of CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology) at Loughborough from its foundation in 1993 until 2007. He has over 20 years research experience in renewable energy technology and his current research is focussed on the electrical integration of wind and photovoltaic generators.
Email: david.infield@eee.strath.ac.uk |
University of Surrey
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Professor Matthew Leach is the Director of the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey. His research interests relate to decentralised systems (both energy and waste treatment), with a focus on both the technologies, and economic and policy aspects. Matthew has undertaken research and consultancy at local, UK, EU and international levels. He is active in support of energy policy development, having contributed to the 2003 White Paper analysis on low carbon energy scenarios, the DTI Renewables Innovation Review and preparations for the Prime Minister’s G8 activities on low carbon technologies.
Email: m.leach@surrey.ac.uk
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Damie Ogunkunle is a researcher at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey. Her previous work was concerned with applying a novel problem structuring approach to assess the sustainability of bioenergy chains as well as developing a demand analysis framework for polygeneration technologies. Currently, she is working on a socioeconomic value chain analysis of UK bioenergy chains in addition to her work on demand-side analysis of low carbon transition pathways. Email: d.ogunkunle@surrey.ac.uk |
University College London
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