Dr Dragos Neagu is a Senior Lecturer, Chancellor’s Fellow. He is experienced in the fields of materials and devices for renewable energy conversion, hydrogen production, carbon dioxide electrolysis, environmental and carbon catalysis, oxide ion transport membranes, supported molten carbonate membranes for carbon dioxide separation. He has over 30 journal publications, including five in the prestigious Nature family journals and two in Energy and Environmental Science. His work has accrued over 2000 citations leading to an H-index of 12 (Google Scholar, 2021). He also holds 3 international patents.

Dr Stephen Lyth is Chancellor’s Fellow in Sustainable Energy. He previously spent 16 years in Japan where he ran an independent research group specialising in materials for hydrogen applications. In 2019 he received the prestigious NICE-STEP Researcher Award for significant contribution to science and technology. He has a thriving international network, with Visiting Professor positions across the World and has published with numerous international partners. His research is broad, with over 100 published papers and book chapters. He has worked with multiple industry players in Japan and has delivered many invited or keynote presentations around the globe. 

Dr Edward Brightman has research interests in electrochemical energy devices and systems, particularly flow batteries and hydrogen production from alternative feedstocks such as biomass. His background is in polymer electrolyte fuel cells, having previously worked as a senior research scientist at the National Physical Laboratory (2011-2015) and as R&D manager at Enocell Ltd (2016-2019) developing innovative methanol and PEM fuel cells. He specialises in diagnostics and characterisation of devices for understanding and mitigating degradation, and in device engineering for new energy storage chemistries.