Energy experts for media
Our energy and environment researchers work across a broad range of areas, including power networks, energy materials, fuel poverty, smart cities, urban energy use, climate change research, oil and gas, and low carbon generation such as nuclear and renewable technologies.
You can find out more about our experts and their specialisms below.
If you are a journalist, and would like to speak to one of our experts, contact Ben Robinson via ben.robinson@manchester.ac.uk or on +44 (0) 161 275 8388.
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Prof Mike Barnes
Professor in the Power Conversion Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Specialist in smart grids, high voltage DC transmission, flexible AC transmission systems and offshore wind energy.
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Prof Ian Cotton
Professor of High Voltage Technology, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering / Director, Manchester Energy
Specialist in energy networks and power lines, higher voltage power electronics (marine, rail, aerospace and power systems) and higher voltage aerospace systems.
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Prof James Evans
Professor of Human Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development
Specialist in how cities learn to become smarter and more sustainable, urban environmental governance and University lead for Triangulum, a five-year Horizon 2020 project to establish smart districts across Europe.
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Dr Vidyadhar Peesapati
Specialist in future networks, asset management and condition monitoring of high voltage systems (power systems, rail and marine) including testing methods and finite element analysis.
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Dr Robin Preece
Lecturer in Future Power Systems
Specialist in power system security and dynamic performance of complex mixed AC/DC systems and the impact of large-scale integration of emerging technologies (such as multi-terminal VSC-HVDC grids and grid-scale storage).
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Prof Rob Dryfe
Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry / National Graphene Institute
Specialist in graphene and batteries and cars, electrochemical energy storage/conversion, super capacitors and climate change.
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Dr Amanda Lea-Langton
Lecturer in Bioenergy Engineering
Specialist in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and emissions from the combustion of biomass and other solid fuels.
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Dr Iain Crowe
Lecturer in Microelectronics and Nanos, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Specialist in materials and devices for solar-to-electrical energy conversion; research includes development and characterisation of traditional (silicon) and emerging photo-voltaic materials for improved device cost/efficiency.
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Dr Laurence Stamford
Lecturer in Sustainable Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science
Specialist in distributed and renewable energy systems, sustainable development and industry, solar energy and the sustainability and economic viability of UK shale gas / fracking.
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Dr Chris Jones
Research Associate, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Specialist in heating/household energy efficiency (systems and emissions), renewable energy socio-economics, energy demands and networks, energy storage, solar PV and heat networks.
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Prof Tim Abram
Professor in Nuclear Fuel Technology, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Specialist in accident tolerant fuels, nuclear fuels and reactor systems, nuclear materials and nuclear engineering.
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Prof Scott Heath
Dalton Nuclear Institute’s Director of Education and Professor of Nuclear Chemistry
Expert in nuclear skills and specialist in analytical techniques for trace radioactive nuclides and control of radioactive contaminants in water-cooled nuclear reactor cooling circuits.
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Prof Francis Livens
Director of Dalton Nuclear Institute / Professor of Radiochemistry, Department of Chemistry / Royce champion for Nuclear Materials
Specialist in nuclear security, radioactive waste and radiation and the environment.
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Prof Jonathan Lloyd
Professor of Geomicrobiology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Specialist in nuclear waste and clean up, environmental microbiology, geomicrobiology, bioremediation, biogeochemistry and the geodisposal of radwaste.
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Prof Katherine Morris
BNFL Research Chair in Geological Disposal / Dalton Nuclear Institute lead for Nuclear Environment and Waste / Director of Research for the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Specialist in nuclear waste, geological disposal and environmental radiochemistry.
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Dr Simon Watson
Lecturer in Robotics Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Specialist in nuclear decommissioning and nuclear robots.
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Prof Kevin Taylor
Professor of Sedimentary Geosciences and Head of Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Specialist in oil and gas, fracking and shale gas; geothermal and geological carbon capture and storage; petrographic and geochemical analysis and novel mineralogical analysis to sediment and mudstone systems.
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Prof Grant Allen
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Specialist in the environmental impact of fracking, the measurement of atmospheric composition and pollution, transport and modelling (local, urban and regional, eg biomass burning sources).
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Prof Kevin Anderson
Professor of Energy and Climate Change / Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Specialist in climate change mitigation, transport-related emissions (including aviation and shipping), the Climate Change Act, carbon budgets, the Paris agreement and mitigation rates.
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Prof Hugh Coe
Professor of Atmospheric Composition / Director of Manchester Environmental Research Institute
Specialist in air pollution, atmospheric aerosols and impact on climate change, biomass burning and car emissions.
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Dr Jaise Kuriakose
Lecturer in Energy and Climate Change / Tyndall Manchester
Specialist in climate change mitigation, carbon budgets and science-based carbon targets, low carbon energy for cities and regions, climate change impacts on the energy system and the integration of renewable energy systems to electricity grids.
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Prof Alice Larkin
Prof of Climate Science & Energy Policy / Head of Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Specialist in low carbon international transport (shipping and aviation emissions), climate policy, the food-water-energy nexus, energy system decarbonisation, carbon budgets and climate science.
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Prof Carly McLachlan
Professor of Climate and Energy Policy / Director Tyndall Manchester
Specialist in public and stakeholder views on energy and climate change issues, renewable and community energy and city scale action on climate change.
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Prof Matthew Paterson
Professor of International Politics, School of Social Sciences
Specialist in climate change and politics, carbon markets, political economy and global climate governance.
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