Energy storage: automotive and grids

Alex Halliday has been Professor of Geochemistry at Oxford University since October 2004. Before coming to Oxford, he spent twelve years as a professor at the University of Michigan and then six years in Switzerland, where he was Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the ETH in Zürich. His research involves the use of isotopic methods to study Earth and planetary processes. 

Halliday's research accomplishments have received widespread international recognition.  In addition, he is a former President of the Geochemical Society, the European Association of Geochemistry, and the Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Section of the American Geophysical Union. He has experience with a range of top science boards and advisory panels. At Oxford he was Head of the Division of Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (science and engineering) from 2007 to 2015. He was elected Vice President (Physical Secretary) of the Royal Society in 2014.

Dave Howell is the Deputy Director of the Office of Vehicle Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters, in Washington, DC with overall responsibility for VTO’s portfolio of R&D projects. He is currently also the Program Manager for Battery and Electrification Research with direct responsibility of projects on electric drive vehicle batteries, electric drive components, and vehicle charging.  He also serves as DOE’s representative at the United States Advanced Battery Consortium Management Committee and at international organizations and inter-government forums involved in hybrid and electric drive transportation. Earlier, Dave was a member of the research staff of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he was the Project Manager for Aerospace Technologies. Prior to that, he served on active duty at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio where he was the Program Manager for Advanced Materials for Space Structures at the Air Force Materials Laboratory. Dave received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from theUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Joan MacNaughton is an influential figure in international energy and climate policy.

She is currently Chair of The Climate Group and of the Advisory Board of the New Energy Coalition of Europe. She sits on the Strategic Advisory Board of Engie UK, is a Non -Executive Director of the James Hutton Institute and the Energy Savings Trust, a member of the Council of Warwick University, and sits on several other advisory boards.

From 2010 to 2016, Joan was Executive Chair of the annual assessment of countries' energy policies for the World Energy Council, the 'Trilemma', and is now Honorary Chair. In 2012 she was Vice Chair of the UN Committee on the Policy Dialogue of the CDM. From 2006-2012, she served on the Board of Governors, Argonne Laboratory at the University of Chicago where she chaired the Budget Committee; and co-chaired the Strategic review of Laboratory Operations. She has served on many Boards, including the International Emission Trading Association (IETA), of which she is now an honorary Fellow. She is an Honorary Fellow and Past President of the Energy Institute; a Distinguished Fellow of both the Institue of Energy Economics of Japan, and of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils. From 2007 to 2013 she was Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and has lectured at the LSE, UCL, Warwick University and many other institutions. For several years she has moderated a roundtable of Ministers and CEO’s at the annual Clean Energy Ministerial Meeting.

From 2002, as Director General of Energy, Joan played a key role in shaping UK energy policy. In that role she led a major change programme and made a significant contribution to international energy policy, including overseeing the energy agenda during the UK Presidency of the EU and leading the work on the Clean Energy Action Plan agreed at the G8 Gleneagles Summit. From 2004 to 2006, she was Chair of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency, leading a review of  the IEA’s strategy and leading the emergency response to the supply disruption caused by Hurricane Katrina.

In a second career in business, Joan set up and then led Alstom’s department for clean power advocacy from 2007 until 2011, and until December 2012 acted as Global Adviser on Sustainable Policies for the company.

She spent six years as a NED of a FTSE 250 property development company.

In 2006 she was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath by HM The Queen. She is married to Sir Bill Jeffrey, and is also known as Lady Jeffrey.

Jorge is Managing Director of Centrica’s global Distributed Energy & Power business, established to deliver distributed energy solutions for large energy users as part of a more flexible energy landscape.

He joined Centrica in 2010, first heading up the Group’s strategy team before taking over as Managing Director of British Gas’ Smart Metering business, where he lead the roll-out of smart meters to over one million residential customers. 

Born in Venezuela, Jorge is an engineer and holds a MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering. He was also a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford before joining McKinsey & Company, where he advised a number of institutions in energy and other sectors. He has also worked for Procter & Gamble and PDVSA (Venezuelan national oil company), and was a Board Director of Smart Energy GB. 

Alexander Slocum is the Walter M. May and A. Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, a MacVicar Faculty Teaching Fellow, a Fellow of the ASME, and a member of the NAE.   He has 100+ patents and has helped develop 12 products that have received R&D 100 awards for “one of the one hundred best new technical products of the year”.  He has helped start several successful companies and has a passion for working with industry to solve real problems and identify fundamental research topics.

Alex was the Massachusetts Professor of the Year in 2000 and is the recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, and the ASME Leonardo daVinci, Machine Design, and Thar Energy Awards.  His current interests focus on the development of precision machines from medical devices and instruments to energy harvesting and storage machines.  Recently he served on the DoE Science Team working on the Gulf Oil Spill, and has served in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President as the Assistant Director for Advanced Manufacturing.  Since high school days, Alex has had a passion for furniture making and carpentry.  Alex also loves sports from SCUBA to snowboarding to marathons and iron-distance triathlons.

Biography

Peter B Littlewood is Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences and Engineering at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. He also holds an appointment as Professor of Physics in the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago.

He came to Argonne from Cambridge University, United Kingdom, where he was Head of the Cavendish Laboratory and the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He previously headed the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Laboratory. During a 2003-2004 sabbatical leave, he was Matthias Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Prior to joining Cambridge, he worked at Bell Laboratories from 1980 through 1997, finishing his time there as head of Theoretical Physics Research.

His research activities include the dynamics of collective transport (charge-density wave, Wigner crystal, vortex lattice); phenomenology and microscopic theory of high-temperature superconductors, transition metal oxides, and other correlated electronic systems; and optical properties of highly excited semiconductors. He also has interests in theoretical engineering, including holographic storage, optical fibers and devices, and materials for energy applications.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences (Physics) and a Ph.D. in Physics, both from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Institute of Physics, TWAS, and the American Physical Society.

Ian Metcalfe obtained his first degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College where he was awarded the Hinchley Medal. He then performed his graduate study at Princeton University obtaining his MA in 1984 and his PhD in 1987. He returned to the UK to take up a position as a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. In 1997 he was appointed to the Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and in 2001 he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at UMIST. In 2005 he moved to Newcastle University as the Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Ian is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has held both an Esso Centenary Education Award (1989) and an ICI Fellowship (1993). Whilst at Imperial College he received the Imperial College Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996).  He currently holds a European Research Council Advanced Grant and acts as director of the virtual UK membrane centre (EPSRC – SynFabFun). He has authored a text book on chemical reaction engineering which has sold 10 000 copies and has published more than 130 refereed research articles. He has supervised 50 PhD students.

His research is in the area of the thermodynamics of chemical conversion with an emphasis on energy processes.  He has a particular interest in membrane processes and solid-gas chemical looping cycles.

Dr Christos Markides is a Reader at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Imperial College London, where he heads the Clean Energy Processes (CEP) Laboratory, and leads the Energy and Environmental Engineering research theme and the multidisciplinary cross-faculty Imperial Energy Efficiency network. He has a BA, MEng, MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and also has technology transfer and start-up experience as co-founder and Technical Director of spin-out Thermofluidics. He specialises in applied thermodynamics, fluid flow and heat/mass transfer as applied to devices, technologies and systems for thermal-energy recovery, utilization, conversion, and storage. He is an Editor of Elsevier journals ‘Applied Thermal Engineering’, ‘Energy’ and ‘Renewable Energy’, EPFL journal ‘Frontiers in Energy Research’ and Begell House journal ‘Multiphase Science and Technology’. He is also a Member of the Scientific Panel of the ASME ORC Power Systems Committee, the Scientific Panel of the Knowledge Centre – Organic Rankine Cycle (KCORC), the Scientific Committee of the UK Energy Storage SUPERGEN Hub, and the UK National Heat Transfer Committee.

Ben is an Executive Director at Aurora Energy Research where he leads the Commissioned Projects team. His primary focus is on UK power where he advises utilities, developers, financiers and government agencies on topics from strategy to valuation. Ben also leads Aurora’s research into battery storage, peaking plants and demand side response. He has built a market-leading expert team who have acted as market advisers on numerous recent high profile transactions on both buy and sell side, debt and equity, involving thermal, renewable and flexible technologies.

Prior to joining Aurora Ben spent 6 years at McKinsey and Company in London consulting on energy and sustainability, followed by 3 years at Centrica Energy as Director of Strategy where he played an active part in investment planning and management of energy assets including thermal and renewable generation, oil, gas and LNG.

Ben earned a first class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering in New Zealand, followed by an MPhil and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.

Chris leads Ofgem’s work on core and emerging policy, dealing with the state of current market arrangements and any potential barriers to new emerging technologies and business models. This includes the key areas of electric vehicles, energy storage and local energy.

Prior to this role, he was head of gas systems at Ofgem leading on gas transmission and distribution policy and representing Ofgem at ACER (Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators) and CEER (Council of European Energy Regulators) on gas issues including interconnectors and storage.

Before joining Ofgem in 2016, Chris worked at the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) where he worked in market performance, assessing the role and efficiency of the gas and electricity markets in Australia. He also supervised joint research projects into the potential impact of the developing solar / battery residential market and option value of retiring generation plant.

Prior to AEMO, Chris worked in consulting for over 10 years, on a range of projects in the government, energy, transport and telecoms sectors. Chris has qualifications in mathematics, engineering and economics, and is a Chartered Engineer.

Professor Laura Diaz Anadon is Professor of Climate Change Policy at the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Bye-Fellow at Peterhouse and an Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Prof. Anadon was previously Assistant Professor of Public Policy at HKS.  She has engaged with policy makers in many countries, and contributed to the work of many international organisations (i.e., UN, IEA, UNFCCC, World Bank, OECD).  Prof. Anadon did her PhD in chemical engineering at Cambridge, and has industrial research and financial consulting work experience.  Her work includes over 40 journal articles (e.g., Nature Energy, PNAS, Nature Climate Change, Environmental Science & Technology, Risk Analysis, Environmental Research Letters, Research Policy, and Energy Economics) and an edited Cambridge University Press book. She has given many plenary lectures and serves in several editorial boards and advisory committees.

Peter Bruce is Wolfson Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford. His research interests embrace materials chemistry and electrochemistry, with a particular emphasis on energy storage. Recent efforts have focused on the synthesis and understanding of new cathode materials for lithium and sodium ion batteries, understanding processes in all solid-state batteries and the challenges of the lithium-air battery. His pioneering work has provided many advances.

Peter has received numerous awards, including the Tilden Prize of the RSC, the Carl Wagner Award of the ECS, the Liversidge Award of the RSC and the Hughes Medal of the RS. He has also been recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics each year since 2015.

Peter is a founder and Chief Scientist of the Faraday Institution, the UK centre for research on electrochemical energy storage. Peter took up the position of Physical Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society in 2018.