research themes
If you would like to be connected with our academics working in any of these themes, please email us:
- AI, machine learning and digital twins for energy applications
- Bioenergy
- Business models for the circular economy
- Clean fuels and energy carriers
- Clean heating and cooling
- Critical materials for the energy transition
- Energy citizenship for a just transition
- Energy data, digitisation and connectivity for energy systems
- Energy efficiency in the built environment
- Energy harvesters
- Energy in space
- Energy policy
- Energy storage
- Energy sustainability in media and entertainment industries
- Energy systems modelling
- Geoenergy and geostorage
- Hydropower
- Legacy energy assets
- Life Cycle Assessment in energy and waste management
- Low carbon computing and sustainable software engineering
- Multiphysics characterisation of advanced energy systems
- Nuclear energy and nuclear waste management
- Risk management and reliability analysis
- Smart grids
- Smart sensor systems
- Solar energy
- Sustainable materials and manufacturing for clean energy
- Transport decarbonisation
- Wave and tidal energy
- Wind energy
Net Zero Future: Energy Conversion
The School of Chemistry are looking at low-carbon solutions to energy generation and storage.
Net Zero Future: SOLSPACE
Supported by an ERC Advanced Grant, researchers in the James Watt School of Engineering are investigating the use of ultra-lightweight orbiting reflectors to enhance the output of future terrestrial solar power farms.