Administrative Support & PhD students
University of Bath
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Lacey-Jane Davis is the Operations Co-ordinator at Bath for Transition Pathways and the UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UK-SHEC). She has a scientific background in renewable energy, water and the environment and has a MSc in Toxicology. Prior to her current role, Lacey worked for over 7 years as an Environmental Consultant at WRc, where she provided technical and managerial support to a wide range of national and international research projects. At Bath Lacey has been involved in numerous successful research grant applications, where her work has included providing advice and support on funding and contract negotiation.
Email: l.davis@bath.ac.uk |
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Hayley Howard is a PhD candidate at the University of Bath, having graduated with a MEng in Innovation and Engineering Design from the Mechanical Engineering Department of the same university in 2008. Her work focuses on the analysis of the environmental impacts of different large-scale clean coal technologies - primarily coal with carbon capture and storage - through various life cycle assessments. She has also worked on identifying the main risks facing the UK biofuels industry, as perceived by various stakeholder groups. Her research is supervised by Prof. Geoff Hammond and contributes to Theme 3: Whole Systems Appraisal.
Email: H.R.Howard@bath.ac.uk.
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Katharine Anne Kelly is a PhD candidate at the University of Bath. She holds an MEng in Engineering Design and Appropriate Technology from the University of Warwick. Her work focuses on appraising the environmental impact of low carbon energy technologies. This will be done via a set of Life Cycle Assessments of system examples from the technology areas of marine power and combined heat and power. Her research will contribute to the 'Whole System Appraisal' work stream with Prof Geoff Hammond.
Email: k.a.kelly@bath.ac.uk
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Carolina Salter provides administrative support for Transition Pathways and is the Conference Seminar Operations Co-ordinator for the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (I-SEE) at Bath.
Email: C.A.Salter@bath.ac.uk
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Imperial College
| Sara Mohtashami is a Research student in the Control and Power Group at Imperial College London. Email: s.mohtashami09@imperial.ac.uk |
University of Leeds
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Ronan Bolton is a PhD student at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds. He holds a B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from the NUI Galway and an MSc in Environmental Sustainability from The University of Edinburgh. He is interested in understanding the processes that lead to innovation in low-carbon technologies and long term transitions in energy systems, with a specific focus on distribution networks . He will be working on theme 1 of the project with Dr Tim Foxon. Ronan is also an EPSRC Research Fellow at the School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds from 2011-2012.
Email: eerpgb@leeds.ac.uk
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University of Strathclyde
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Malcolm Barnacle is a PhD research student in the Advanced Electrical Systems research group of the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Strathclyde. Before joining Strathclyde Malcolm obtained an MEng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Heriot Watt University. His research interests include transmission and distribution networks, the UK electricity market, multi-objective optimisation techniques and supply security and optimisation. He will be working in theme 2 of the project, in the Infrastructures workstream, developing a scenario-based MOTRiP (Multi-Objective Transmission Reinforcement Planning) tool to analyse the effects of differing scenario/pathway generation portfolios on the UK electricity network and their likely resulting optimal reinforcement requirements.
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Sikai Huang is a PhD research student of the Renewable Energy Technology Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde where he completed a BEng degree of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 2008. His research interests include distributed generation and energy storage device technology and application, especially for electric vehicles and wind generation. Associated with this central challenge he also take interests in demand side management/responsive demand. He will be working in the Understanding supply-side and demand-side Participation workstream in the project.
Email: sikai.huang@eee.strath.ac.uk |
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Elizabeth Robertson is a PhD student researcher in the Advanced Electrical Systems research group of the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Strathclyde. Before joining Strathclyde Beth gained a MPhys in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of York. She works within theme 2 of the project in the Infrastructures workstream and her research interests include multiple energy carrier energy system modelling and optimisation techniques as well as the reduction of emissions and increased efficiency in the energy sector. Beth has been developing SiTIESS – Simulation Tool for Integrated Energy System Studies – which is designed to be able to represent and then interrogate a highly interconnected and interdependent multiple energy carrier energy system.
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