SCCS - Key Persons
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- Consultant
- Engineer
- Member of the Advisory Board
Alastair Rennie is a Consultant Engineer with YOenergy Ltd., partly overlapping with 19 years with Amec Foster Wheeler as Project Director leading, bidding and winning work in new areas of scope, all profitably. These included offshore integrated services for 5 Northern North Sea O&G platforms, 500 staff, refurbishment and live operations. Internal strategic work assessed renewable energy options and this led to a UK interest in CCS. Prior experience of 19 years included 3 as head of Public Works for St Helena, with 500 staff providing all utilities and infrastructure support to the Island. Other roles covered North Sea gas field development, subsea contracting, mine construction, design and consulting experience. Since 2000 he has focused primarily on low carbon energy issues, raising company activity and board membership of the CCSA and UKHFCA, instigating actions around value chains for hydrogen and CCS.
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- Professor of Earth Sciences - GeoEnergy / Heriot - Watt University
Andreas Busch integrates flow properties with geochemistry, petrophysics, physical chemistry, geomechanics and geology to understand and de-risk carbon storage, geothermal and hydrogen storage. This involves laboratory, field and analytical/numerical modelling to upscale problems to the reservoir scale. Prior to joining Heriot-Watt University in 2016, he coordinated several large scale research projects combining theoretical, laboratory and field based work within Shell Global Solutions in the Netherlands. Since joining Heriot-Watt in 2016, he has been in charge of the GeoEnergy lab, dealing with CCS, unconventional reservoirs, energy storage and geothermal energy.
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- Subsea Opportunities Manager / Scottish Enterprise
Chris Bryceland is part of Scottish Enterprise's low carbon transition team where he leads up developing and implementing strategy for CCUS and Subsea Engineering. Chris has worked in the Energy sector for Scottish Enterprise for 10 years, including 2 years working for Shell as part of the Peterhead CCS project team. Chris also sits on the board of Subsea UK and previously ran the Industry leadership group for Thermal Generation and CCS in Scotland.
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- Reader in Geology / University of Aberdeen
Clare Bond is a structural geologists whose research interests span uncertainty in interpretation of geological data through to deformation mechanisms and the interaction of fluids with other crustal processes. She leads an international group of researchers whose work is funded through industry collaborations, research councils and other organisations. Clare also has interests in how society and societal perceptions influence energy choices.
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- Net Zero Policy & Storage Expert / Research
Andrew holds a first-class degree in geology and a PhD in petroleum systems analysis from Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities and has over 20 years of experience in CO 2 storage analysis and advocacy. Since 2018 he has worked at Edinburgh University as a researcher, where he has led projects on storage and net zero readiness, including recent regional reviews of hydrogen and CO 2 storage (H 2 Europe HyUSPRe, H2020 Strategy).
Andrew advises on site selection and development for hydrogen storage and CO 2 storage, and develops evidence-based SCCS policy positions, translating these into consultation responses, committee evidence and media releases. Andrew engages with stakeholders from industry groups, public bodies, governmental and non-governmental organisations to build support for CCS in Scotland and across the European region. He advises on technical storage issues and net zero policy, including greenhouse gas reduction and removal, CCUS and hydrogen storage, and net zero emissions ambitions.
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- Scientific Research Officer / Research
Erika is responsible for techno-economic studies and prepares technical reports to help guide the progress of SCCS projects. Additionally, Erika coordinates and develops Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including the world-leading MOOC on Carbon Capture and Storage, and provides knowledge exchange support across the SCCS partnership and beyond. Furthermore, she participates in public engagement activities for greater community outreach and provides Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training for interested parties.
Erika joined SCCS in 2022, bringing with her 9 years of expertise in the field of Carbon Capture and Storage. She divides her time between SCCS and teaching among other things Thermodynamics at the University of Edinburgh's School of Engineering to Mechanical Engineering students and supervising last year theses.
Erika has a PhD in Energy Systems from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc and BSc in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Job Titles:
- Programme Manager
- Programme Manager / Management
Gillian joined the SCCS team as Programme Manager in June 2023 to develop and win collaborative research bids involving SCCS partner institutes, multi-national companies, policymakers, SMEs and NGOs. Gillian oversees the work of the team delivering public dissemination of knowledge to deliver impact for SCCS members and project partners. She engages with senior academics from multiple universities and a wide network of business contacts.
For five years prior to joining SCCS, Gillian specialised in building collaborative research and technology projects to accelerate decarbonisation of the energy sector as an independent consultant and also in various roles at Net Zero Technology Centre. Her interests span diverse themes including CCS, geothermal, offshore renewables, hydrogen, operational decarbonisation and digitalisation. She is an industry expert in Earth Science, holding extensive technical, multi-disciplinary team leadership and project management experience in the energy sector.
After graduating with a BSc in Geology from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Gillian completed an MSc in Sedimentology at the University of Reading and a PhD in Reservoir Characterisation at Keele University.
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- Fellow in Energy at the University of Strathclyde
- Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering / University of Strathclyde
Dr Jen Roberts is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Energy at the University of Strathclyde. Jen works in the interdisciplinary field of energy systems and technical, social and environmental risk - with particular focus on net-zero subsurface resources including CO 2 storage.
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- Business Development & Project Manager / Management
Romain focuses on business development across the carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) value chain; including CO 2 capture technologies, transport, utilisation and conversion, power plant integration modelling and engineering, geological storage, measurement and monitoring. He provides the SCCS partnership with industry engagement and identifies research and commercial opportunities in CCUS.
Over the last four years, Romain has established long-lasting strategic relationships with key stakeholders from various sectors, such as Bioenergy, Hydrogen, Food & Drink, Oil & Gas, and Heavy Industries, including Petrochemicals Steel & Cement and with a large number of SMEs. He has organised a number of targeted industry events and technical meetings, and initiated and supported the development of successful research collaborations and large research projects involving industrial partners and multiple stakeholders.
Romain joined SCCS to support the commercialisation and deployment of CCS as a climate change mitigation solution after spending 14 years in research, management and commercialisation within the cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food & drink and life science sectors. Romain is a certified Prince2 project manager with a PhD in Chemistry.
Dr Vinay Mulgundmath is an Engineering Specialist within Saudi Aramco's New Energies Engineering Division. Prior to joining Aramco, Vinay held the role of Chief Technologist at the NetZero Technology Centre in Scotland, UK. He has been a Board member of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and Scottish Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) chaired by Scotland's First Minister. Vinay is a Non-Executive Advisor Scotland's Hydrogen Accelerator at University of St. Andrews and an Honorary Administrator at University of Aberdeen's Directorate of Research & Innovation. Vinay holds a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering with specialization in post-combustion carbon capture technologies and MSc degree in Process Engineering from France. Dr Mulgundmath is a Subject Matter Expert on crosscutting themes including clean energy technologies, and environmental sustainability.
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- Environment Manager / Diageo
- Environment Manager for Diageo 's European Supply Business
Duncan Wall is an Environment Manager for Diageo's European supply business. He responsible for developing and implementing the strategy to reduce the environmental impact from maltings, distilling, brewing and packaging operations across 60 sites in the UK, Ireland and Italy. Diageo is an industry leader in sustainability with ambitious targets to be reached by 2020 covering water, carbon emissions, sustainable packaging and waste. Duncan has worked for Diageo for 10 years on a number of energy, water and carbon reduction projects, including a significant investment in renewable energy plants. Prior to working for Diageo, Duncan worked in the pharmaceutical and food sectors on similar energy and environment projects. He holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology from University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology and is a chartered Chemical Engineer. He also represents Diageo and industry interests on Scotch Whisky Association energy & environment committees.
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- Energi Simulation Chair and Reactive Flow Simulation and CCUS / Heriot - Watt University
Eric Mackay holds the Energi Simulation Chair in CCUS & Reactive Flow Simulation in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, where he has worked since 1990. He is involved in projects identifying methods for calculating secure CO 2 storage potential in saline formations and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs.
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- Professor for Multi - Scale Multi - Phase Flow Modelling - GeoEnergy / Heriot - Watt University
Florian Doster is Professor for Multi-Scale Multi-Phase Flow Modelling in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University and Program Director for the MSc program Subsurface Energy Systems. His research interests include the study of multi-physics multi-phase flow phenomena in porous media and their appropriate physical and mathematical description across length and time scales. He focuses on applications related to the energy transition in particular CO 2 storage and phenomena around flow in fractured porous media in particular with respect to mechanical and thermal coupling. With respect to modelling concepts he focuses on dual continuum representations, vertically integrated approaches as well as flow diagnostics.
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- Rankine Chair, Professor of Energy Engineering / University of Glasgow
Gioia Falcone is Rankine Chair, Professor of Energy Engineering at the University of Glasgow, where she leads the Energy and Sustainability Research Group and is Associate Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions. She is also Visiting Professor at Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London and Guest Professor for the Energy Management MBA at the Technical University of Berlin. Until June 2018, she was Professor and Head of the Geo-Energy Engineering Centre at Cranfield University. Between 2011 and early 2016, she held the Endowed Chair and Professorship in Geothermal Energy Systems at Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, where she was also the Director of the Institute of Petroleum Engineering. Gioia was formerly an Assistant and then Associate Professor in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, Chevron Corporation Faculty Fellow and faculty member of the Ocean Drilling and Sustainable Earth Science partnership. Prior to joining academia, she worked with Eni-Agip, Enterprise Oil UK, Shell E&P UK and Total E&P UK, covering both offshore and onshore assignments. She holds a Laurea Summa Cum Laude in Environmental-Georesources engineering from Sapienza University of Rome, a M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. She has served on several expert review panels, as technical editor/reviewer for several peer-review journals, and as member of several program committees of technical conferences around the world. Along with being actively engaged with the energy transition activities of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, she is Vice-Chairperson of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Bureau of the Expert Group on Resource Management. The group has overseen the development of the Specifications for the Application of the UNFC to Injection Projects for the Purpose of Geological Storage and to Geothermal Energy Resources.
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- Emissions Trading Specialist
- Trading Specialist for INEOS O & P UK
Jacqueline Lobban is the Emissions Trading Specialist for INEOS O&P UK. She is responsible for managing the various businesses' onsite environmental compliance: the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS); the UK Climate Change Agreement (CCA); emission reporting under Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and the UK Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS). She provides commercial and policy expertise and analysis on the range of emissions trading activities throughout the INEOS community and works closely with our trade association and government on the continued development of environmental regulations. With a B.Eng. (Hons) degree in Chemical and Process Engineering, she has over 20 years of experience in the Petrochemical Industry and has worked in a number of areas, from operational technical support to commercial, and has a strong background in environmental legislation. Her current role has recently been expanded to provide an industry perspective on CCS development and deployment.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Process Engineer
- Principal Process Engineer and Technical Authority for CCUS
Jonathan Slater is the Principal Process Engineer and Technical Authority for CCUS at Altrad Babcock. He holds a BEng (Hons) degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham and is a chartered Chemical Engineer. Jonathan has worked for Altrad Babcock (formerly Doosan Babcock) for 15 years on a range of projects in the energy sector from consultancy to technology development and project delivery. Jonathan has been involved in carbon capture since 2010 with significant experience gained in both Oxyfuel and Post Combustion technologies through feasibility studies, FEED studies and full EPC. He was a key member of the design and operations team for the Ferrybridge 100 t/day post combustion carbon capture plant (CCPilot100+). Jonathan continues to lead projects and provide technical assurance and direction on low carbon energy projects and technology development.
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- Geology and Landscape Project Leader / British Geological Survey
Maxine is a geologist at the British Geological Survey with extensive experience in offshore and onshore geological research and modelling, specialising in CO 2 storage research since 2008. She is a highly experienced Project Leader and leads, manages and contributes to applied geoscience research projects. Currently, Maxine leads effective and optimal use of subsurface geological resources for offshore subsurface energy storage in the MOET project and site selection for the BGS and UKRI CO 2 Storage Research Facility. She leads science development for the CO 2 Stored UK national CO 2 storage database and is the Scottish Academic Cluster Lead in the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre. Maxine has led three Scottish CCS studies funded by consortia of industry and government, and UK case studies in the EU- and UK-funded ALIGN-CCUS industrial CCS and ELEGANCY hydrogen and CCS projects.
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- Chief Executive of the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association
- Chief Executive Officer / Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association
Nigel Holmes is Chief Executive of the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (SHFCA), the trade association for development and deployment of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. SHFCA is one of the most active hydrogen and fuel cell industry associations in Europe, with over 75 members mostly based in Scotland and UK but with an increasing number of members based overseas. Nigel also represents SHFCA member interests on the Renewable Industry Advisory Group (RIAG), and is a steering group member for both the Scottish Transport Emissions Partnership and Community Energy Scotland.
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- Global Deployment Lead for CO Storage / Shell
Owain Tucker is the Global Deployment Lead for CO₂ Storage at Shell. He leads storage projects, is responsible for technical assurance, integration, and informing the CCS research agenda, along with the development of capability within Shell. Over the past eight years, he worked extensively across Shell's projects, and particularly on maturing Goldeneye in the UK: the candidate store for the former Longannet and Peterhead CCS projects. He also focussed on the wider challenge of developing transport and storage business models, co-chairing the ZEP taskforce. Owain co-chairs the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative work group on CO2 storage capacity and the SPE taskforce on Storage Resource Maturation System, and is a board member of the UKCCSRC. Owain has worked in wide variety of roles, as a reservoir engineer, economist and strategy consultant.
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- Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching for Interdisciplinary Courses / the University of Edinburgh See Profile
Prof Hannah Chalmers is Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching for Interdisciplinary Courses a the Institute for Energy Systems at the School of Engineering. She received her PhD in Environmental Strategy from the University of Surrey in 2010.
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- Project & Research Analyst / Research
Richard Stevenson provides expertise in project management, research and data analysis across a range of decarbonisation disciplines, and brings technical leadership into the design and delivery of industrial decarbonisation research projects that quantify, assess and communicate the application of CCUS and related carbon management solutions.
Richard provides advice to SCCS and EU project partners and key stakeholders, such as Scottish Government and other industry and academic groups, and also contributes to the wider SCCS partnership in terms of knowledge dissemination, outreach and public events.
Richard previously taught Japanese at UK undergraduate level and worked as a translator and proofreader in Japan and the UK. He holds an MSc in Translation Studies and an MSc in Carbon Management (both The University of Edinburgh). He joined SCCS in 2014.
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- Digital Communications Officer / Communications
Richard Lo Bianco manages and delivers digital media communications for the SCCS partnership and for multiple CCUS Projects across Europe, to promote their research and translate findings into formats accessible to different audiences. This involves website content management, recording and post-production of audio and video content and other digital media for dissemination through online and social media channels. He also assists with technical input and support in organising and managing conferences, online meetings, webinars and events.
Richard joined SCCS in 2020, bringing his creative and technology background to the team. He has over 10 years of expertise in communications, IT sales and training, organising and facilitating events, and engaging with a variety of audiences including youth groups, schools, academics, professionals, and businesses.
Richard has a BA in Music Technology from Anglia Ruskin University and an MSc in Sound Design from the University of Edinburgh. He has collaborated in multidisciplinary projects and worked providing consultative AV advice, audio engineering, post-production services, and broadcasting support for films, animations, theatre, published apps, and independent media producers.
Job Titles:
- Senior Development Manager
- Senior Development Manager at Crown Estate Scotland
Sian Wilson is Senior Development Manager at Crown Estate Scotland, the public body which manages Scotland's seabed and around half the foreshore, with the revenue profit being returned to The Scottish Government. Sian is responsible for infrastructure development and asset management, which includes gas storage and transportation. Sian has a BSc in Environmental Science, a Masters in Offshore Technology from Cranfield University and, after more than 10 years working in the offshore technology sphere, she obtained an MBA in 2019. Crown Estate Scotland works with people and organisations to ensure that assets are managed in a sustainable way that creates prosperity and lasting value for Scotland and its communities. Scotland's carbon dioxide storage capacity holds huge potential to help achieve Scotland's net zero targets, support other countries to achieve theirs by offering trusted and secure carbon management, and create wider opportunity for sustainable businesses and clean living that society now, rightly, demands. As a part of the transition to a low carbon economy CSS will, we believe, be core to that success and lasting value.
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- Director of Research and Innovation / Scottish Funding Council
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is responsible for the development of Scotland's further and higher education institutions. In his present role, Stuart Fancey is responsible for SFC's research funding policy, knowledge exchange and innovation policy, SFC's contribution to the development of the Research Excellence Framework and various other liaison activities across the Scottish and UK university and innovation landscape. His team are closely engaged with Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise to find opportunities to better exploit the excellence of Scotland's university research base for economic and societal benefit.
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- Director and Professor of Carbon Capture & Storage / the University of Edinburgh See Profile
Stuart Haszeldine is the current Director of SCCS and the worlds first Professor of CCS, he is one of the key driving forces behind establishing CCS as a new industry in the UK, EU and worldwide. Stuart has over 35 years research experience in energy and environment; innovating new approaches to oil and gas extraction, radioactive waste disposal, carbon capture and storage, and biochar in soils. Stuart provides advice to both UK and Scottish governments. He was elected FRSE in 2002, awarded the Geological Society William Smith Medal in 2011 and in 2012 was appointed OBE for services to climate change technologies.
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- Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering / Heriot - Watt University
Susana García is Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering and Deputy Head of the Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, which she joined in May 2014. She is also the Associate Director in Carbon Capture and Storage at the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS), an interdisciplinary world leading engineering centre, inspiring and delivering innovation for the wider deployment of technologies needed to meet necessary carbon targets. Her current research focuses on advancing materials and separation processes for energy, industrial and environmental applications. She ambitions to change the paradigm on how novel processes based on advanced materials are developed through the integration of process engineering and basic science.
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- Managing Director / Sustainable Decisions Ltd
- Managing Director of WG Sustainable Decisions Limited
Ward Goldthorpe is Managing Director of WG Sustainable Decisions Limited and currently an adviser to The Crown Estate, which owns the storage rights on the UK continental shelf. In 2010 he set up the Carbon Capture and Storage and Natural Gas Storage programmes at The Crown Estate and led these until the end of 2015. His role involved managing the leasing of storage sites and commercialising the CO₂ storage resource. Ward has 35 years' technical, commercial and business development experience in the petroleum and energy industries, a large part of which has been in developing upstream and midstream natural gas and LNG projects in Australia, South America, South Asia and the Middle East. He has spent the last eight years working in Australia and the UK on deployment issues for transportation and geological storage of CO₂.