CREDS - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London
- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
Aidan O'Sullivan is Associate Professor at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London, where he leads the Energy and Artificial Intelligence Lab and is founding course director for the Energy Systems and Data Analytics MSc. Prior to joining UCL he was awarded a PhD from the department of Mathematics Imperial College London in 2013 for his thesis on Bayesian statistics. He subsequently joined MIT as a postdoc in the Intelligent Transport Systems group. He was awarded a Turing Fellowship in 2018 and is a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute the UK's leading centre for AI and Data Science Research.
Aimee joined CREDS in April 2019 in the Website and Communications role as maternity cover. She then moved across into the Knowledge Exchange (Business) role in March 2020.
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- Honorary Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Environment
- Project Researcher / Loughborough University
Alex Summerfield is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources (BSEER), University College London (UCL). He has over two decades of experience in research, consultancy, and teaching at the interface between technology and design in the built environment. Since 2004, his research at UCL has mainly focussed on the challenge of reductions in energy demand and carbon emissions from the built environment, particularly in the residential sector.
Summerfield has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, with 22 in the last five years. In 2012, he was the invited editor for a special issue of Building Research & Information, Next Challenges in Energy and Buildings Research, where he identified new approaches to research needed to address the scale, scope, and speed of change of energy transition ahead of us. Prior to CREDS, he contributed to the development of data analytics for the EPSRC funded UCL Centre for Energy Epidemiology. He has also been a leading investigator on projects and technical reports on improving the in-situ energy performance of new technologies for the UK government and industry, including micro-CHP and heat pump systems.
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
- Research Associate at the UCL Energy Institute
Alexandra Schneiders is a Research Associate at the UCL Energy Institute and the Operating Agent of the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumption and Transactive Energy Models (GO-P2P), an Annex of the User-Centred Technology Collaboration Programme by the International Energy Agency. Her research focuses on the policy and regulatory enablers/obstacles of rolling out peer-to-peer and community self-consumption models, at UK and EU level. Prior to joining the UCL Energy Institute in January 2018, she was working in Brussels in political and legal consultancies, advising corporate and public sector clients, such as the European Commission, on energy and financial services-related topics. Her background is in law and politics, and she holds degrees from the University of Amsterdam as well as the College of Europe.
In her previous Brussels-based posts, Alexandra was responsible for conducting extensive comparative studies of different countries' energy laws, and she will use this experience as well as her expertise in Dutch and UK energy law to compare the two regulatory systems and their treatment of community energy groups. As Operating Agent of the Global Observatory, which the Netherlands (NL) and the UK are both member countries of, she will have access to a valuable range of policymakers active in the peer-to-peer and community self-consumption fields and will leverage those contacts for her work on this project, such as for the UK-NL policymaker workshop.
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
Alexandra Elena Vitel is currently a PhD student at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds, conducting research on Transport and Energy Demand Management. She completed her MSc in Transport Planning at the ITS, University of Leeds, and her BSc (Hons) in Air Transport and Logistics Management at the University of Huddersfield. During her final year of undergraduate studies, Alexandra worked as Research Assistant and Project Support Officer in Transport. In this role, she helped to evaluate the social impact of the advent of revolutionary transport technologies such as Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility as a Service, and of modern transport technologies, such as mobile apps for travel and real-time travel analytics.
Her current research concentrates on transport and energy demand management and aims to contribute to academia, industry, and to the standard of living of people through the development of tailored strategies for encouraging sustainable consumption behaviour. The outcomes of the project could help to address the ongoing climate crisis and could help the UK to reach its decarbonization goals.
Alice Garvey is a Research Assistant in energy demand at the University of Leeds, working within the Sustainability Research Institute. She is supporting the delivery of a variety of collaborative projects within the research team. Alice previously completed a research internship with the UK Energy Research Centre at Leeds. Her research interests are in low carbon transitions and energy systems, as well as climate mitigation and policy. Alice has broad interest and experience in interdisciplinary projects linking the social and environmental sciences, and has previously worked with NGOs. She holds a BA from Durham University, and an MSc in Climate Change and Environmental Policy from the University of Leeds.
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- Co - Investigator / University of Sheffield
- University of Leeds As a Research Fellow
Andrew Pimm joined the University of Leeds as a Research Fellow in November 2015, to work on decentralised energy storage, energy flexibility, and whole energy system modelling. Prior to this he worked as a researcher at the University of Nottingham, developing new grid-scale energy storage technologies including underwater compressed air energy storage, high temperature thermal energy storage, and hybrid storage systems involving compressed air, liquid air, heat storage, and flywheels. In March 2020, he joined the CREDS team to work on steel industry decarbonisation.
Andrew is investigating a range of aspects related to the decarbonisation of the UK iron and steel industry, including: the suitability of new steelmaking technologies (such as hydrogen direct reduction, bioenergy, and carbon capture) to achieve net zero emissions in the UK by 2050; the energy system requirements of a zero carbon UK steel industry; the impacts of energy policy on the competitiveness of the UK iron and steel industry (such as exempting industry from legacy costs, and introducing carbon border adjustment mechanisms to prevent carbon leakage); and the damage costs associated with air pollution around steelworks.
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- Assistant to Director and Centre Administrator / University of Oxford
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- Founding Director
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Manager / University of Oxford
Anuja joined CREDS in April 2021 and works part-time. Anuja is a founding director of an energy efficiency company where she focuses on the EDI and social benefit aspects of energy efficiency in residential housing.
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
- Senior Researcher in Energy Systems at the UCL Energy Institute
Baltazar is a senior researcher in Energy Systems at the UCL Energy Institute. He specialises in the use and development of energy models for studies ranging from techno-economic analyses of small energy systems to studies of global issues, such as climate change mitigation. Baltazar has modelling experience working at global, national, and sub-national levels. He has recently developed TIMES MX-Regional, a multi-regional energy systems optimisation model for Mexico's Ministry of Energy (SENER). This model is part of the new modelling portfolio of SENER and will be key to their policy-making decisions from 2018 onwards. Baltazar has also led the development of ETM-UCL, an energy systems model of the European Union used in European Commission backed research to study the implications of different long-term techno-economic scenarios. Baltazar has also carried out energy systems modelling research involving the use of UK TIMES and TIAM at global level.
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- Co - Investigator / Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
- Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit
- Project Researcher
Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the School of Business, Management, and Economics, part of the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. There he serves as Director of the Sussex Energy Group and Director of the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand which involves the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester. He is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), due to be published in 2022, and an Advisor on Energy to the European Commission's Directorate General for Research and Innovation in Brussels, Belgium.
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- Project Researcher / Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ), University of Sussex
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- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / Lancaster University
- Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University
Carolynne Lord is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, working with the Flexibility group at CREDS. Since completing her PhD in Sociology, which investigated the normalisation of the tablet computer through theories of social practice, she has been working on a range of interdisciplinary projects. In brief, her research interests lie in understanding the changing roles of technologies and infrastructures in peoples' everyday activities.
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
- Senior Research Associate at UCL Energy Institute
Charlotte Johnson is a senior research associate at UCL Energy Institute. Her research focuses on domestic energy use and community engagement in urban transition. She is currently providing social research support to community energy groups through a knowledge exchange grant, including Repowering London who are trialling a P2P electricity market in a London housing estate. Previously she worked as the social researcher on energywise, a DNO-led randomised control trial of smart meters in 500 low income homes. She has published on the gender impacts of Demand Side Response based on this trial. d
Charlotte uses participatory research with community groups wishing to produce a positive environmental change in their neighbourhood. Her work is grounded in critical infrastructure studies and she draws on theories from Anthropology, Material Culture and Science and Technology Studies to analyse and support community-led infrastructural transitions.
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- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
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- Knowledge Exchange Manager ( Business ) University of Oxford
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- Co - Investigator / UCL Energy Institute
- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / Lancaster University
- Research Assistant at the University of Strathclyde
Connor is a Research Assistant at the University of Strathclyde within the Electronic and Electrical Engineering department. He is in the process of finalising his PhD as a member of the Future Power Networks and Smart Grids Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT). Prior to joining the CDT, he obtained a BEng in Mechanical and Power Plant Systems, and an MSc in Electrical Power Engineering with Business.
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- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Co - Investigator / UCL Energy Institute
- Professor of Energy
David Shipworth is Professor of Energy and the Built Environment at the UCL Energy Institute. He is Vice-chair for Strategy and Task Development in the International Energy Agency's Demand Side Management Technology Collaboration Programme, and is also the UK Government's Industry and Academic representative to this TCP.
He researches systems for provision of demand flexibility within the energy system, in particular demand side response and peer-to-peer energy trading, and roles of consumers and buildings in delivering these. He has a particular interest in the design and evaluation of field trials for providing evidence to government and business, as well as testing the consumer acceptability of, and response to, different flexibility offerings such as Time of Use Tariffs and Home Energy Management Systems.
He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and is on the Editorial Board of Nature: Scientific Data.
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- Associate Editor
- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
Debbie is the Associate Editor (Sustainable Transport & Mobilities) of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. From 2018-2019, she is undertaking a part-time academic secondment to the New Zealand Ministry of Transport working with academic transport and mobilities communities, and policymakers to examine how ‘evidence' is used in the policy process, and to find ways to develop policy-academic communication.
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- Project Researcher / Science
Devon Wemyss has been researching in applied social science in the fields of innovation, sustainability and energy since 2014 at the Zurich University of Applied Science. She undertakes challenging and relevant real-world problems with diverse actors groups including energy start-ups, household electricity consumers, and energy incumbents. Her multi-disciplined background began in Canada with a bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering (McGill University, 2007), followed by a master degree in Environmental Science (ETH Zurich, 2012).
In September 2019, she started a PhD at the University of Sussex with a focus on how digital tools facilitate pro-environmental behaviour in individuals. She has been involved in several real-world behaviour change interventions, as well as more practice-focused consulting work. She is a researcher in the current H2020 project SONNET (Social iNNovation in Energy Transitions) wherein the co-evolution of social and digital innovations is investigated.
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University College London
- Researcher at the University College London ( UCL ) Energy Institute
Domagoj Baresic is a Researcher at the University College London (UCL) Energy Institute. Domagoj uses mixed research methods to pursue research into the nature of fuel transition pathways necessary to reach a low carbon shipping future. His research interests span policy, political economy, and socio-technical transitions. He has recently completed his PhD in Energy and Transport (Sustainability transitions in the maritime transport industry: The case of LNG in northern Europe) from UCL in 2020. Domagoj also has an MPhil in Environmental Policy and BA in Natural Sciences, both from the University of Cambridge.
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Project Researcher / University of Manchester
Dr Amish Sarpotdar is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the FAIR project. He is responsible for mapping socio-spatial vulnerabilities to energy and transport poverty in the UK. This part of his work quantifies, models and maps vulnerabilities to energy and transport poverty.
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- Associate Professor in Energy and Resource
- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
Dr Andrew Ross is an Associate Professor in Energy and Resource Recovery in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds. His research interests include renewable energy generation, bioenergy, biotechnology and conversion of wastes into biofuels, bio-products and chemicals. Activities relevant to the project include the production of bio-coal and biocarbon from wet wastes by hydrothermal conversion. Current research projects include being PI of the BEFWAM project: Bioenergy, Fertiliser and Clean water from invastive aquatic macrophytes (GCRF); Co-I of Bio-integrated Valorisation of India's Municipal Solid Waste to Renewable Feedstocks (Innovate UK, BBSRC); and PI of Conversion of Wet Waste to Fuel and Value-Added Products using Hydrothermal Carbonization (DST-UKIER).
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- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
- Research Fellow in the School of Chemical & Process
Dr. Clare Richardson-Barlow is a Research Fellow in the School of Chemical & Process Engineering at the University of Leeds where she examines industrial decarbonisation from a political economy perspective. Clare is also a tutor in East Asian studies in the School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at the University of Leeds where she teaches political economy in East Asia and Southeast Asia as well as supervises undergraduate final year projects. Clare is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose research and teaching explores energy policy, political economy and energy governance. Clare has over 10 years' experience researching and working as a political economist with a focus on energy transitions and climate compatible development in East Asia, Europe and North America.
Prior to joining the University of Leeds Clare worked for many years at internationally-focused policy research organisations in Washington, D.C., including the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). She currently serves as a Non-Resident Fellow for NBR where she provides expertise related to energy policy, energy transitions, and the political economy of decarbonisation in Northeast and Southeast Asia. Clare frequently works with international research organisation to provides expertise at the intersection of climate, development, and energy policy.
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- Professor in Energy, Environment and Society
- Project Researcher / University of Edinburgh
Dr. Dan van der Horst is a Professor in Energy, Environment and Society. He has published extensively on sustainability transitions in both socio-technical and socio-ecological systems, assessing (often conflicting) drivers and values in the management and governance of scarce but multi-functional resources. Dan embraces discipline-agnostic, policy-engaged methods to map and understand uneven spatio-temporal patterns of change. Within CREDS, and in collaboration with Edinburgh colleagues Jan and Mags, his research is in particular focused on (stagnation, innovation and divergence) in urban development strategies and local climate governance initiatives. This links to ongoing work on supporting the Scottish Government Housing Strategy, reducing personal exposure to urban air pollution, and setting up the Edinburgh Climate Commission.
In the past Dan has led various national and international research projects on sustainability innovations in land use, on energy social enterprises and on household adoptions of smart metering (> £2M, funded by ESRC, EPSRC, NERC and various EU sources). He is keen and proud to combine research with teaching - on the Edinburgh MSc programme in Energy, Society and Sustainability, which he launched in 2017.
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- Project Researcher / SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit
Ed is the Programme Manager for the Sussex Energy Group, providing project management and policy engagement support for the group's activities, of which CREDS is a large part. He joined SPRU in 2015 as the Project Manager for the H2020 funded TRANSrisk project, which SPRU co-ordinated.
Prior to SPRU he spent 14 years in the field of environmental policy and projects, working for NGOs, local authorities and as an independent consultant. He has a broad base of subject knowledge spanning climate change, air quality, energy, waste management and transport planning.
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- Project Researcher / University of Sussex
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- Co - Investigator / Lanacaster University
- Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University
Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. From 2013-2019 she was PI of the DEMAND Centre (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand). Elizabeth has written extensively about energy, consumption and social practice, focusing more recently on how infrastructures constitute demand, on what is wrong with the pursuit of energy efficiency and with how the timing of energy demand and related forms of flexibility are best understood as outcomes of societal rhythms.
She continues to develop theories and concepts of social practice - see The Dynamics of Social Practice (2012: Sage), and The Nexus of Practices (2017 Routledge), and to explore the implications of such ideas for energy-related policy, amongst other areas.
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
- Research Assistant in Energy Demand Reduction for the Materials
Elliott is a Research Assistant in energy demand reduction for the Materials and Products theme. He is currently working across a variety of projects, largely looking at low energy demand pathways to net-zero, their socioeconomic implications and broader material impacts.
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- Project Researcher / University of Groningen
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- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / Science
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- Project Researcher / University of Reading
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- Co - Investigator / University of Edinburgh
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / University of Manchester
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University of Sussex
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- Co - Investigator / UCL Energy Institute
- Theme Lead & Project Researcher / Science
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- Project Researcher / University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / Department of Transport Planning, TU Dortmund University ( Germany )
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Co - Investigator / Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
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- Knowledge Exchange Manager ( Research ) University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / Cambridge Econometrics
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Co - Investigator / University College London
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Strathclyde
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- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / Lancaster University
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- Project Researcher / University of Strathclyde
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- Project Researcher / Lancaster University
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- Project Researcher / Cambridge Econometrics
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Reading
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Plymouth
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- Project Researcher / Energy Saving Trust
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- Associate / University of Leeds
- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Reading
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- Project Researcher / University of Plymouth
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- Project Researcher / Green Alliance
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- Project Researcher / University of Manchester
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- Project Researcher / Lancaster University
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- Project Researcher / University of Sussex
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- Centre Administrator / University of Oxford
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- Communications Coordinator / University of Leeds
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- Research Data Manager / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University of Plymouth
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- Project Researcher / University of Edinburgh
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Birmingham
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / University of Manchester
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- Project Researcher / Green Alliance
- Project Researcher / University of Strathclyde
- Theme Lead & Project Researcher / Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / University of Edinburgh
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- Co - Investigator / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University of Reading
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Plymouth
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- Institute for Industrial Production ( IIP ) Chair of Energy Economics
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- Project Researcher / Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / Lancaster University
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- Project Researcher / Institute of Sustainable Resources, UCL
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- Project Researcher / Cambridge Econometrics
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Co - Investigator / Surrey Energy Economics Centre, University of Surrey
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- Co - Investigator / Science
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- Centre Manager / University of Oxford
- Co - Investigator / UCL Energy Institute
- Director / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / University of Edinburgh
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- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University College London / Nishatabbas Rehmatulla
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- Project Researcher / Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ), University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
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- Communications / University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / University of Reading
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- Co - Investigator / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / Lancaster University
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- Knowledge Exchange Manager ( Policy & Government Affairs ) University College London
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- Project Researcher / University of Reading
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- Project Researcher / Bartlett School of Environment Energy and Resources
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University College London
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
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- Co - Investigator / London School of Economics
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- Project Researcher / Green Alliance
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University of Reading
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- Knowledge Exchange Manager ( Policy ) University of Oxford
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- Communications Manager / University of Oxford
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- Centre Administrator / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / University of Surrey
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- Co - Investigator / Lancaster University
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- Project Researcher / University of Manchester
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- Co - Investigator / School of the Built Environment, University of Reading
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- Website & Communications Manager / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University of Birmingham
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- Project Researcher / University of Plymouth
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- Project Researcher / University College London
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- Project Researcher / University of Plymouth
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
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- Co - Investigator / University of Oxford
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- Project Researcher / University of Cambridge
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- Project Researcher / Yale University
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- Project Researcher / UCL Energy Institute
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / University College London
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- Project Researcher / University of Oxford
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- Co - Investigator / University of Leeds
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- Project Researcher / Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / University of Leeds
Professor William Gale joined the University of Leeds in 2008 and until recently was the Director of the Centre for Integrated Energy Research (CIER). Gale founded CIER in 2010 with the vision of achieving a virtuous circle between technological and policy interventions in the energy system. He was formerly the Director of the Energy Research Institute at the University of Leeds. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, he was the Executive Director of the US Federal Aviation Administration funded Air Transportation Centre of Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment Research (ACER)/National Centre of Excellence for Research in the Intermodal Transport Environment (RITE). ACER/RITE brought together 7 universities and 40 industry partners to focus on solutions to environmental challenges, with a £10M Federal Budget, matched 1:1 by industry.
Professor Gale is the author around 200 open literature publications (around 100 journal papers and around 100 other publications) and the editor of two books. He was the editor and lead author of the extensively revised and expanded 8th Edition of Smithells Metals Reference Book, Elsevier and ASM International, 2004. He has received a number of best paper awards. His funding track record includes around £26M of funding from government (EU; EPSRC; US Federal agencies, such as NSF, NASA, US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, Federal Aviation Administration), industry (e.g. Boeing, United Technologies, Honeywell, Thermasys, General Atomics) and other bodies (e.g. Royal Society, industry foundations). He has extensive experience as a PI leading highly interdisciplinary teams.
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- Project Researcher / Osaka University
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- Project Researcher / University of Edinburgh / Yujia Han
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- Project Researcher / Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
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- Project Researcher / University of Cambridge