Greg Kelsall

Chairman

Greg Kelsall has over 30-years experience in the energy related industry and for the last 5 years has been a Fellow of the IChemE.

Abby Samson

Committee Member

Abby Samson is a Lecturer in Fuels and Combustion in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

Andy Brown

Committee Member

Andy worked for the CEGB on power stations for 20 years covering coal, gas turbine and nuclear.

Ben Anthony

Committee Member

Dr Edward “Ben” Anthony is an adjunct professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at the University of Ottawa.

David Lemon

Committee Member

David graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel University. His career took him to Lucas Industries as Development Group Leader, Ricardo Consulting Engineers as Chief Engineer-Light Duty Diesel and the Energy Saving Trust as Head of Technical Services.

Geraint Evans

Committee Member

Geraint is a Chemical Engineer specialising in renewable energy, in particular, biomass, bioenergy, biofuels and CCS.

Michael Green

Immediate Past Chair

Dr Green maintains an interest and network with those still working in Underground Coal Gasification.

Michael Menzies

Committee member

Born in Everton, and also educated in London, Mike gained a BSc in Chemical Engineering at Surrey University. He started in Surrey, then Wolverhampton, with in a furnace engineering company working in the steel and glass industries.

Paul Fennell

Committee Member

Paul Fennell is Professor of Clean Energy at Imperial College London. He obtained his degree in Chemical Engineering and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Dan Faulkner

Committee member

Dan is a graduate chemical engineer from Newcastle University, working within Group Environment at Tata Steel Europe.

Thomas Isaac

Committee member

Tommy is a chartered chemical engineer with experience spanning the energy industry, including both operational and consulting.

Karen N Finney

Committee Member

Dr Finney is a chartered engineer and currently a senior research fellow within the Energy2050 group at the University of Sheffield.

Katie Chong

Committee Member

Dr Katie Chong is a lecturer in chemical engineering with significant industrial experience within the paper industry and as a bioenergy consultant.

Ray Sacks

Committee Member

Ray is a Fellow of the institution, Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institute of Acoustics. He worked in the cryogenic industry for a long time moving to general consultancy and now is at Imperial College researching energy storage.

Ruby Ray

Committee Member

Dr Ruby Ray is a Principal Process Engineer within Wood’s Process Technology and Consultancy, SEC group with a PhD in Chemical Engineering.

Salvador Eslava

Meeting Secretary

Michael Douglas Keast

Assistant Secretary

Graduating with an honours degree in Chemical Engineering from Birmingham University in 1980, Mike worked at ICI & Foster Wheeler Energy Limited (FWEL)- the latter 8 years of which he was Chief Process Engineer of FWEL UK Operations Teesside office. Mike now works as an independent consultant, scaling up sustainable solutions.

Carolina Font Palma

Treasurer

Dr Font Palma is Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hull, where she works on process simulation, process integration of energy systems and cryogenic carbon capture.

Yulong Ding

Committee Member

Professor Yulong Ding FREng FIChemE FRSC is the founding Director of University of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage.

Sajalu Greenall

Committee Member

Sajalu is the Lead Analyst for the Humber Industrial Cluster Plan (HICP), which is formed by public-private partnership with a vision to create a net-zero industrial cluster by 2040.

Nor Aishah Saidina Amin

Committee member

Professor Ir. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin is a Professor of Reaction Engineering, Head of the Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.