LIFE TAB Profiles
Professor Chris W Wilson
Sheffield University
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Universities Energy and Power Technology Centre
Areas of Expertise
Professor Chris W Wilson research interests include theoretical and experimentally research into Combustion and Fuel Cells, where he has over 130 publications and several patents to his name. He is the Director of the Universities Energy and Power Technology Centre, a joint venture with the University of Leeds. Before joining the University of Sheffield he spent 9 years at QinetiQ Farnborough where he was the Technology Chief for the combustion and environment group. This multi disciplinary group carried out research into combustion and the effects of emissions on the environment. His background was primarily in aviation effects and he was a lead author on the 1998, intergovernmental panel report on Aviation and the global atmosphere. While at QinetiQ Professor Wilson was instrumental in setting up the QinetiQ Power Group, which aimed to serve the UK and European energy sectors. This has resulted in him having numerous contacts across the Energy Industry; including OEM’s, operators and over haulers. Prior to Joining QinetiQ Chris Wilson was a combustion specialist with Rolls Royce, where he held several posts over a period of nine years, at Bristol and in a corporate capacity across the Rolls Royce sites. Chris is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Energy Institute, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Member of the Combustion Institute, Member of Institute of Atomisation and Spray Systems (ILASS) and Elected member of the International Gas Turbine Institute Technical Committee on Combustion & Fuel.
Professor Shaun Quegan
Sheffield University
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Director of the Sheffield Centre for Earth Observation Science
Director of the NERC Centre of Excellence in Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics
Areas of Expertise
Shaun Quegan has worked on the application of remote sensing to land applications since 1982. His main current interests lie in the exploitation of the full range of remote sensing technologies, allied to ground measurements, biospheric modeling and environmental statistics, to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle. He is expert in the physics, systems and data analysis aspects of radar remote sensing, particularly as regards the radar response of vegetation canopies, and he retains a research activity in this area. However, He also has a general interest in the use of remote sensing for environmental science and land applications. As part of this research effort, Shaun has been the Director of the Sheffield Centre for Earth Observation Science since 1993, and, since 2001, has been the Director of the NERC Centre of Excellence in Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics, whose purpose is to use remote sensing to give better understanding and greater quantitative estimation of the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the Earth's carbon cycle. His research interests include Carbon cycle observations and modeling, synthetic aperture radar and environmental remote sensing.
Professor M.C. Pourkashanian
Leeds University
Professor in High Temperature Combustion Processes
Head of School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering
Areas of Expertise
Alternative Energy Sources (inc. solid oxide fuel cell and micro gas turbine, hydrogen production and hybrid systems); By-products relating to Fuels; Chemistry of Catalysis; Combustion; Combustion and Fuel Engineering; Energy; Engines; Environmental Chemistry; Fuel Science and Technology; Bio Fuel (Biomass, Biogas and Bioliquid); Combustion and Gasification; CFD Modelling for Engineering Design; Mathematics applied to other sciences; Mechanisms of Reactions; Aviation Jet Fuels; Enabling Technology for Low Carbon Fuel; Evolutionary and Intelligent Computing for Energy Systems and Control; Advanced Power Generation Technology; High Temperature Combustion Technology (inc. Oxy-fuel and Oxy-enriched Combustion).
Dr. David E. Clarke
E.ON Engineering
Head of Research & Development
Areas of Expertise
Dave Clarke is a chartered chemist with 25 years experience as a manager, consultant and researcher in national and international energy technology projects within industry and academia. Currently he is Head of Research and Development within E.ON Engineering, one of the foremost international energy consultancies, with a staff of 1100 engineers and scientists in the UK and Germany. Responsible for leading research and development strategy with an increasing emphasis on initiatives to accelerate understanding of the current and future technology options for a low carbon economy, in partnership with government, the EU, international scientific organisations, companies and universities worldwide. Broad experience as a programme manager on behalf of UK Government, European and International funding bodies responsible for a portfolio of over 50 industrial and 35 university-based projects supporting energy technology development having a total value of €100 million. Formerly, Management Board member for the Point of Ayr coal liquefaction clean coal demonstration project, Chair of the IEA’s executive committees for coal combustion sciences and for multiphase flow sciences, and representative for the EU as an international clean coal expert