Core Executive

Professor Seamus Garvey

Professor of Dynamics, University of Nottingham 

Research:

Seamus Garvey is Professor of Dynamics at the University of Nottingham. Since 2006, his research has focused increasingly on thermo-mechanical methods of energy storage and on the role of storage in achieving net zero electricity systems.

Seamus is passionate about explaining the strong role that “Medium Duration Energy Storage” (MDES) will play in future systems and leads a task on this within the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme on Energy Storage.

Seamus is a founder of the “Offshore Energy and Storage” conference series whose 8^th instance runs in July 2024 and has run multiple UK events on storage – particularly addressing MDES, storing hydrogen in caverns and how policy affects energy storage. 

 

Professor Christos Markides

Professor of Clean Energy Technologies, Imperial College London

Research: 

Christos Markides is Professor of Clean Energy Technologies, Head of the Clean Energy Processes Laboratory, and leads the Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory, which is the largest experimental space of its kind at Imperial College London. He is also, amongst other, Editor-in-Chief of journal Applied Thermal Engineering. 

Christos specialises in applied thermodynamics, fluid flow and heat/mass transfer processes as applied to high-performance devices, technologies and systems for thermal-energy recovery, utilization, conversion or storage. He has published  over 350 journal articles on these topics, including a recent review of thermomechanical energy storage technologies: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2516-1083/abdbba.

 

Professor Solomon Brown

Professor of Process and Energy Systems, Director of the CDT for Energy Storage and its Applications, University of Sheffiled

Research: 

Solomon graduated from King’s College London in 2007 with an MSci (Hons) in Mathematics. He completed a PhD from UCL in 2011 on the modelling of fluid flow and ductile fractures, in the course of which he was a co-recipient of the IChemE Frank Lees Medal for my collaborative work with the HSE on CO2 pipelines safety.

He joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2015 as a Lecturer.

Solomon's research focusses on mathematical modelling, process analysis and optimisation with a particular focus on clean energy processes, energy storage and energy systems.

Key areas include:

• the development of agent-based models for energy systems and technology adoption
• techno-economic analysis of energy storage technologies
• scheduling and supply chain analysis
• Uncertainty quantification and Gaussian Processes

 

Professor Yulong Ding

Founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering, Director of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage, University of Birmingham

Research: 

Yulong Ding has research interests in energy materials and energy process engineering. He has published 550+ technical papers with 450+ in peer-reviewed journals (GS H-Index ~92) and filed 100+ patents. He invented liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of technology developments (commercialised by Highview Power). His work on composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage has led to large scale commercial applications in heat decarbonisation with total installations exceeding ~500MW / ~2GWh.

Professor Ding is a member of the Royal Society Net Zero Panel, and serves as an associate editor of Energy Storage and Saving (Elsevier) and Discovery Energy (Springer). He recently led a Royal Society briefing note on heating and cooling decarbonisation in ‘Climate Change: Science and Solutions’ for COP26 in 2021, and technical part of IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) Thermal Energy Storage Outlook 2030 (2020). His work has been recognised by Humboldt Research Award (2023); IOR J&E Hall Gold Medal (2023); ESIE Award & Medal for Lifetime Contribution to Energy Storage (2022); IChemE Clean Energy Medal (2021), election to Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2020); IChemE Global Awards in three categories of Energy, Research Project and Outstanding Achievement (2019); and Energy & Environment Award and Technology and Innovation Grand Prix Award (‘The Engineer’, 2011).

 

Annabel Brown

Energy Engineer

Research: 

Annabel Brown is an Energy Engineer at Arup with mechanical background and a passion for all things renewable. Whilst at Arup, Annabel has worked across a variety of energy infrastructure projects which includes future whole energy systems modelling from production through to storage and demand; offshore wind design; hydrogen projects; and asset decommissioning.

Annabel is particularly interested the integration of long-term and inter-seasonal energy storage with renewable energy production.