UK-SHEC Consortium Members
University of Bath
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Dr Tim Mays (Operations Director) is currently Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Materials Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, UK. He has over 20 years research experience mainly within the energy area, including recently the development of sustainable hydrogen energy systems. Regarding the last of these, he is currently Principal Investigator and Operations Director of the United Kingdom Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UK-SHEC) which was renewed for a further four years from 1 July 2007 with total funding of £7.3M. UK-SHEC comprises 17 research teams at 13 institutions funded under the Sustainable Power Generation and Supply (SUPERGEN) initiative of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. His own research in UK-SHEC involves the study of porous materials such carbon nanotubes to store hydrogen. Tim Mays' other current research interests include the characterisation of porous solids, engineering carbon materials, fluid separations for environmental control and sustainable materials for buildings.
Email: T.J.Mays@bath.ac.uk
Website: http://people.bath.ac.uk/cestjm/
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Lacey-Jane Davis works in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Bath, as the Operations Co-ordinator for UK-SHEC. Lacey 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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Dr Valeska Ting is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr Tim Mays Group. Her current project is concerned with obtaining accurate high pressure hydrogen sorption isotherms from various hydrogen storage materials. This data will be modelled to extract physical parameters for evaluation and prediction of the storage potential an optimal storage conditions of these materials. This approach can also be used in the investigation of methods of enhancing storage capacity of existing storage materials.
Email: V.Ting@bath.ac.uk
Website: http://people.bath.ac.uk/vt233/
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University of Oxford
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Professor Peter Edwards (Management Director) F.R.S. (PPE) is Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and leads a major solid state chemistry group within the department. He has very broad research interests within chemistry, encompassing the electronic structure of solutions of alkali metals in non-aqueous solvents, high-temperature superconductors, metal nanoparticles, materials for hydrogen storage and transparent conducting oxides. Edwards has published over 300 scientific papers and three books. In 1996 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2003 was awarded their Hughes Medal for his distinguished work on the Metal-Insulator Transition in a wide range of systems and materials. PPE has been particularly active in recent years in stimulating UK based research activity into a future hydrogen-based fuel economy and holds several major research grants in conjunction with other UK universities, involving EPSRC, TSB and industry including Johnson Matthey, Ilika and Merck Chemicals. He is Management Director of The United Kingdom Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UK-SHEC), established in 2003 as part of the EPSRC SUPERGEN initiative, and the UK representative on hydrogen storage for the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE).
Email: peter.edwards@chem.ox.ac.uk
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Dr Vladimir Kuznetsov Dr. Kuznetsov received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Moscow State University and currently he is a Research Fellow at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford. His research interests centre on synthesis and investigation materials for energy applications, including hydrogen storage materials, transparent conducting oxides, flexible thin films of inorganic semiconductors, thermoelectric materials and also issues related to transition pathways to the hydrogen energy economy. He has published over 40 journal papers and 6 book chapters.
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Dr Martin Owen Jones is director of research for Professor Edwards at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory and visiting scientist at ISIS (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). His recent research centres on functional materials, including; those related to energy and hydrogen storage applications. He is currently actively involved in a number of EPSRC (SUPERGEN, UK-SHEC), DTI (Technology Programme), IPHE, IEA and STFC hydrogen storage projects.
Email: martin.jones@chem.ox.ac.uk
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University of Birmingham
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Dr Paul Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at Birmingham and leads the Hydrogen Storage Chemistry Group, which has an extensive ongoing programme dedicated to the discovery, synthesis and primary characterization of new potential hydrogen storage materials, for use either in safe hydrogen delivery systems or reversible hydrogen stores. The group is an active partner in the AWM Science Cities Hydrogen Energy Project, the EPSRC-funded UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UKSHEC 2) and the International Partnership for Hydrogen Energy (IPHE) Project Combination of Amine Boranes with MgH2 & LiNH2 for High Capacity Reversible Hydrogen Storage.
Email: p.a.anderson@bham.ac.uk
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Dr David Book is a Senior Research Fellow who leads the Hydrogen Materials Group in the Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials, Univ. of Birmingham. His research interests include, the development of novel materials for solid-state hydrogen, and for gas separation membranes. There are currently several hydrogen projects supported by EPSRC, BERR, EC and Advantage West Midlands. Also, he coordinates bilateral networks on hydrogen storage with Japan (EPSRC) and Korea (DBERR/OSI), and is a UK expert in the IEA Task 22.
Email: d.book@bham.ac.uk
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Professor Rex Harris is a past chair of the SHEC management committee. Rex has had a 40 year interest in hydrogen with regard to: the fundamental interactions with materials; as a processing tool in the production of NdFeB magnets and as a fuel of the future. He is an FREng and currently is involved with the development of hydrogen as a fuel for inland waterway craft. The Ross Barlow is powered by a combination of batteries and a PEM fuel cell. The hydrogen is stored as a metal hydride weighing some 150kgs. Details of this project can be found on the Birmingham web site.
Email: I.R.Harris@bham.ac.uk
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University of Cambridge
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Professor Michael Grubb is a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Michael has a PhD from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and spent ten years at the Royal Institute of International Affairs before gaining his Professorship at Imperial College. His research interests include climate change and the economics of technical change and of energy systems. He is currently Chair of the international research organization Climate Strategies, headquartered at Cambridge University where he is also a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Economics.
Email: mjg7@econ.cam.ac.uk
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University of Glamorgan
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Professor Richard Dinsdale is a Reader in the Sustainable Environment Research Centre of the University of Glamorgan. He is a biotechnologist with particular expertise in the production of hydrogen and methane biogas and in the process monitoring and engineering of these systems for development and deployment of these systems at industrial scale.
Email: rdinsdal@glam.ac.uk
Website: http://staff.glam.ac.uk/users/215
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Professor Alan Guwy heads up the Sustainable Environment Research Centre at the University of Glamorgan. His research interests include renewable hydrogen energy systems, processes for waste reduction and bioenergy production with particular interest in the anaerobic treatment processes. Currently his research is focussed on the optimisation of anaerobic fermentation to produce biohydrogen from sustainable sources and bioelectricity using microbial fuel cells and bio-electrocatalytic systems.
Email: ajguwy@glam.ac.uk
Website: http://staff.glam.ac.uk/users/216
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Dr Giuliano Premier is a Mechanical Engineer affiliated to the Sustainable Environment Research Centre of the University of Glamorgan and has been in the Faculty of Advanced Technology since 1989. He has research interests in systems design, modelling and control, particularly in hydrogen energy, bio-processes, biological fuel cells and the engineering and metrology related to these fields.
Email: gcpremie@glam.ac.uk
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University of Glasgow
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Professor Duncan H Gregory studied at the University of Southampton completing his PhD in 1993 under Prof. Mark Weller. He moved to Nottingham first as a postdoctoral research fellow, then EPSRC Advanced Fellow, Lecturer and Reader in Materials Chemistry. He was appointed to the WestCHEM Chair in Inorganic Materials at the University of Glasgow in 2006. His research interests centre on non-oxides and nanomaterials with potential applications such as sustainable energy and electronics.
Email: D.Gregory@chem.gla.ac.uk
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University of Manchester
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Dr Paul Upham is an environmental social scientist with research interests in public and stakeholder perceptions of low carbon energy systems. Recent projects have related to carbon capture and storage, hydrogen as a transport fuel, bioenergy and biofuels, and carbon labelling. Paul also has a research interest in climate change policy for aviation. Email: paul.upham@manchester.ac.uk
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University of Nottingham
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Professor Neil Champness is the Professor of Chemical Nanoscience at the University of Nottingham. His research concerns many aspects of molecular organisation and supramolecular chemistry, notably nanostructure formation on surfaces and in solution, crystal engineering and coordination polymer synthesis. He was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan medal in 2006 and the Bob Hay lectureship by the RSC UK Macrocycles and Supramolecular Chemistry Group in 2005.
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Professor David Grant is a Professor of Materials Science in the School of Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nottingham. His research interests fall into two areas. One area is hydrogen storage systems and in particular light metal and complex hydride systems in the Hydrogen Storage research group. The approach is to try and destabilise these systems to allow hydrogenation and dehydrogenation to occur at lower temperatures and with faster kinetics to be commercially practicable. His other research area is in Biomaterials where he heads the Bioengineering Group and researches into novel surfaces and coatings, degradable implant materials and cell surface interactions.
Email: David.Grant@nottingham.ac.uk
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Professor Martin Schröder: Professor and Head of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Nottingham. Recent awards include the RSC Tilden Lectureship (2001/2), RSC Award for Chemistry of Transition Metals (2003), a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2005), and a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2005). He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Toronto, Otago and Strasbourg. His research, described in 390 papers, is concerned with the co-ordination and supramolecular chemistry of redox-active transition metal complexes. Current research projects focus on the transport and extraction metal salts and metalloanions, new metal-organic framework materials for selective gas storage and uptake of volatile organic compounds (vocs), and the synthesis of functional models of [NiFe]hydrogenase enzymes for hydrogen production.
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Professor Gavin Walker is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham and is Deputy Director of the University's Energy Technologies Research Institute (ETRI). The institute includes energy research from 7 Schools and is truly multidisciplinary involving researchers from Engineering, Science and Social Sciences. His current research interests are primarily focused on solid state hydrogen storage materials such as light metal hydrides, complex hydrides, nanostructured carbons and metal organic frameworks. He also holds a Carbon Vision Leadership award (jointly supported by the Carbon Trust and EPSRC) to champion the innovation and commercial exploitation of low carbon technologies.
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University of Salford
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Professor Paul Bellaby is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Social Cultural and Policy Research at Salford University. His wider research interests are in health and society and how the public perceive and act on risk. His specific contributions to UK-SHEC concern how the public might perceive benefits, costs and risks associated with the whole system of a potential hydrogen economy and what are the social and cultural bases of continuing ‘lock-in’ to a carbon economy.
Email: P.Bellaby@salford.ac.uk
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Professor Rob Flynn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford. He has researched and published extensively in urban sociology and medical sociology, and about the regulation of professionals and experts. His principal current interests are in public perceptions of risk, and ‘upstream’ public engagement in hydrogen energy technologies.
Email: R.Flynn@salford.ac.uk
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Professor Simon Marvin is currently the Lead Director of SURF (2004-07). He obtained degrees from the University of Hull (1981-84), the University of Sheffield (1984-86) and the Open University (1986-89). Simon then worked at the University of Newcastle before moving to Salford University in July 1999 to take up the United Utilities chair of Sustainable Urban and Regional Development. Simon is an acknowledged national and international expert on changing relations between neighbourhoods, cities, regions and infrastructure networks in a period of rapid technological change, environmental concern and institutional restructuring. Simon’s research has been funded by the ESRC, EPSRC, the European Commission and a number of commercial funders and public agencies. Recent research has examined how the urban, city-regional and regional policy agendas are understood by Government departments within Whitehall, regions and cities. This has involved several office-based placements within the Urban Policy Unit of ODPM and the Government Office of the North West. This work has been funded by the DTI, Treasury Placement Scheme, ODPM New Horizons programme and GONW. He coordinated the ODPM funded “A Framework for City-Regions” project and he led two projects on Critical Infrastructure and city-regions for the Northern Way.
Email: S.Marvin@salford.ac.uk
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University of Strathclyde
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Grant Allan is a research fellow in the Fraser of Allander Institute, at the University of Strathclyde. A graduate of Strathclyde and Edinburgh Universities, he is currently working on the EPSRC-sponsored SuperGen Marine research programme looking at the economic, social and environmental impacts of the development of new marine energy generation technologies. Since joining the Institute in 2002, he has worked on a number of energy related projects funded by the ESRC, EPSRC, UKERC, DEFRA and the Scottish Executive.
Email: Grant.J.Allan@strath.ac.uk
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Prof Graham Ault is a Reader with the Institute for Energy and Environment at the University of Strathclyde where he teaches and researches various aspects of power and energy system infrastructure technology including techniques to enable the grid integration of distributed and renewable power generation. He has been active in developing scenarios of future GB electrical energy systems under the EPSRC SuperGen FutureNet and FlexNet programmes and the Ofgem Long-term Electricity Network Scenarios (LENS) project. He is an active member of the BERR Centre for Sustainable Electricity and Distributed Generation, the E.On/EPSRC Strategic Partnership ‘Transition Pathways to Low Carbon Energy Systems, EPSRC SuperGen Highly Distributed Power Systems consortium and leads the power and energy systems research activities for the university with Scottish & Southern Energy and Scottish Power
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Professor Peter McGregor is currently a Professor in the Department of Economics, and Senior Research Associate in the Fraser of Allander Institute, at the University of Strathclyde. He was Head of Department from 1999 to 2005 and prior to that (from 1992) was Research Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute. He is currently a Co-Investigator in the EPSRC-funded SuperGen Marine Energy Research Consortium (Phase 2) as well as Principal Investigator on an ESRC-funded program examining the Impact of Higher Education Institutions on Regional Economics. Current research interests include regional and national economy-energy-environment modelling and the evaluation of regional economic policies. He was Editor of Regional Studies, the journal of the Regional Studies Association from 1991-1996.
Email: p.mcgregor@strath.ac.uk
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Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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Professor William David is STFC Senior Fellow based at the ISIS Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Recent awards include the inaugural BCA Prize (2002) and the European Society for Applied Physical Chemistry Prize (2006). His research interests include the development of neutron and X-ray powder diffraction techniques for the analysis of new materials, materials synthesis and materials processing and the discovery and characterisation of new lightweight materials for advanced hydrogen storage materials. His current focus in hydrogen storage is on the combinatorial synthesis and optimisation of chemical hydrides that include borohydrides, amides, alanates and ammonia borane derivatives.
Email: bill.david@stfc.ac.uk
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University College London
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Professor Paul Ekins has a PhD in economics from Birkbeck College, and a BSc in electrical engineering from Imperial College (both University of London). He joined University College London in July/August 2009 where he is Professor of Energy and Environment Policy. In 2008/09 Paul worked at King's College London, having previously been Head of the Environment Group at the Policy Studies Institute and Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Westminster since 2002. He is also a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He is a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in charge of its Energy Systems and Modelling theme, and led King's College's involvement in large research consortia on Bioenergy and Hydrogen.
Email: p.ekins@ucl.ac.uk
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Professor Xiao Guo is Professor of Materials and Chemistry at University College London (UCL), with a research focus on syntheses and multiscale simulations of materials and nanostructures for hydrogen storage / generation, energy catalysis, biofuel cells and biointerfaces. Fundamental theories are implemented in ab initio, molecular dynamics, cellular automata and finite element simulations for materials discovery, while selected materials are tailored by mechanochemical milling, chemical synthesis and precipitation methods. He was awarded the Beilby Medal 2000, jointly by Soc. Chem. Industry, RSC and IoM3, and the Lee-Hsun Lecture Prize in 2002, by IMR/Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Email: z.x.guo@ucl.ac.uk
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