Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival: Energy Transformation

In collaboration with Cambridge Zero, Energy Transitions @Cambridge is pleased to host the online session on Energy Transformation. This will showcase the latest research on net-zero and zero-carbon technologies and policy from academics and early career researchers.

There will be a series of short 10mins talks, each followed by Q&A.

All the presentations will be aimed at a general scientific audience covering aspects of how their research contributes to getting to a resilient future, where we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and have a sustainable energy transition away from fossil fuels. 

For the full programme and to register please click here:

https://climatechangefestival.zero.cam.ac.uk/events/energy-transformation

Learn more about the Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival 2021 here.

Session 1

9.00-9.20am
Dr David Reiner, Senior Lecturer, Judge Business School
Keynote: 'The Bumpy Road to a Low-Carbon Economy'

9.20-9.35am
Dr Saptarsi Ghosh, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Future is electric: Future is GaN

9.35-9.50am
Dr Bart Roose, Newton International Research Fellow, Department of Physics
How perovskite solar cells could transform electricity generation in the least developed countries

9.50-10.05am
Dr Daniel Ainalis, Senior Research Associate, Department of Engineering
How to decarbonise road freight in an absolute zero UK

10.05-10.20am
Dr Svetlana Menkin Bachbut, Postdoctoral Researcher, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
Metal plating in batteries: past, present, and future

10.20-10.30am Break

Session 2

10.30-10.45am
Dr Alex Forse, Lecturer, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
Keynote: New Chemistry for Carbon Dioxide Capture

0.45-11.00am
Joseph El-Kadi, PhD Student, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Collin Smith, PhD Student, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Green Ammonia for Long Term Energy Storage

11.00-11.15am
Tom Bedford, PhD Student, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Development of high temperature superconducting coated conductors for commercial high field fusion magnets

11.15-11.30am
Dr Lucrezia Nava, Research Associate, Judge Business School
The way to Net-Zero and Beyond: Informing European Climate Policy through NEGEM

11.30-11.45am
Ahmed Ashour, Undergraduate Summer Research Student, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
A computational model to simulate heterostructures using Finite Element Methods

11.45-12.00pm
Louise Shanahan, PhD Student, Department of Physics
Temperature sensing in single-cell organisms

12.00-12.15pm
Markus Hellenbrand, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Energy-Efficient Computer Memory – Moving Atoms to Save the Climate