Our full-day conference will enable ECRs from across the energy mix to hear from experts from academia and industry, as well as networking and hearing from your peers.

Attendees will share research and views in interdisciplinary discussions on the role of each energy type, its strengths and development needs. We will discuss pathways to help achieve net-zero emissions and a sustainable, safe, reliable energy future.

The outcome of the conference will be a policy briefing addressing the opportunities and challenges to deliver net-zero carbon emissions and the pathways and synergies needed to ensure a sustainable, equal-opportunity approach.

This conference is also hosting talks from ECRs on a wide range of topics - and you'll have the chance to vote for your five favourite talks of the day, for which awards will be given.

More information and agenda:

Key themes:

Energy sustainability, resource efficiency and circular economy

Electrical energy storage

Nuclear energy

Wind and solar

Zero-carbon fuels

Agenda:

8:55 - 9:05am - Welcome and introductions

9:05 - 9:15am - Welcome & Introduction to the Energy Institute - Dr Ruoyang Yuan, and Professor Mohamed Pourkashanian, Head of Energy Institute at the University of Sheffield, the Managing Director of the Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC) and the General Secretary of International Flame Research Foundation (IFRF)

9:15 - 9:25am - KEYNOTE: Professor Lenny Koh, Energy, environment, sustainability, supply chains, low carbon, business development, industry, resource efficiency

9:25 - 10:15am - 5 x 10 min talks from: Dr Brant Walkley (Lecturer in Chemical Engineering: Sustainable Materials and Processes), Dr Victor Guang Shi (Research Associate), Dr. Rafael M. Eufrasio Espinosa (Post-Doctoral Researcher, Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC), Dr Taofeeq Ibn-Mohammed (Assistant Professor and Head of Sustainability Research, WMG, University of Warwick), and Dr Erica Ballantyne (Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Sheffield University Management School).

10:15 - 10:20am - BREAK

10:20 - 10:30 - KEYNOTE: Zaffie Cox - EPSRC portfolio manager - EPSRC fellowships scheme/New Investigator Award

10:30 - 10:40 - KEYNOTE: Professor Serena Corr, Chair in Functional Nanomaterials, Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering

10:40 - 11:40 - 6 x 10 min talks from: Roger Hollies (Arenko Group) Dr Alisyn Nedoma (Lecturer Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield), Dr Samuel Booth (FutureCat Project Leader, Corr Group PDRA), Dr Ann Huang (Lecturer King's College London, EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellow) and Megan Wilson (Analyst, Battery technoeconomic, Exawatt) and Dr Mijndert van der Spek (Associate Professor, RCCS, Heriot-Watt University)

11:40 - 12:05 - Breakout room 1. Topics: EES, Circular Economy

12:05 - 13:00 - LUNCH

13:00 - 13:10 - KEYNOTE - Philip Jardine, Business Development Manager, Nuclear AMRC

13:10 - 14:10 - 6 x 10 min talks from : Evan Bolle-Jones (Technical Lead, Nuclear AMRC), Dr Clare Thorpe (David Clarke/EPSRC Research Fellow), Dr Antonia Yorkshire, (Postdoctoral researcher), Dr Daniel Bailey (EPSRC Doctoral Fellow), Hannah Smith (Final year PhD), Dr Luke Townsend (Research Associate, a former EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow)

14:00 - 14:05 - BREAK

14:05 - 14:15 - KEYNOTE: Dr Bryn Jones, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

14:15 - 15:05 - 4 x 10 min talks from: Dr Paul Judge (recipient of the Supergen ORE Hub ECR Research Fund, Lecturer, the University of Edinburgh), Dr Yihua Hu (Reader, Electronics Engineering Department at The University of York), Dr Lilian Lieber (Marine ecologist, Research Fellow, Queen’s University Belfast), Dr Philip Kinghorn (Research Data Scientist at Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult).

15:05 - 15:20 - BREAK

15:20 - 15:30 - KEYNOTE: Nilabza Dutta, CEng, APMP, Team Leader, TEM, JLR

15:30 - 15:40 - KEYNOTE: Professor Mohamed Pourkashanian, Professor of Energy Engineering

15:40 - 16:20 - 4 x 10 min talks from: Dr Muhammad Naveed Arshad (Post-Doctoral Modeller), Dr Orla Williams (Anne McLaren Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham), Abdallah Abu Salah, (Year 2 PhD student) and Jennifer Hancock, (Year 1 PhD student)

16:20 - 16:45 - Breakout room 3 - topics: nuclear, wind, zero-carbon fuels - CCS

16:45 - 17:00 - BREAK

17:00 - 17:10 - Voting for best presentation

17:10 - 17:20 - Presentation and closing

Scientific committee

Prof. Lenny Koh, Professor in Operations Management, University of Sheffield

Prof. David Stone, Professor in Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield

Prof. Lin Ma, Professor of Fluid Dynamics, University of Sheffield

Prof. Bill Nimmo, Professor of Energy Engineering and Sustainability, University of Sheffield

Dr Clare Thorpe, David Clarke Fellow, EPSRC