Professor of Future Energy Systems, Imperial College London

Niall is a Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Imperial College London. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of both the IChemE and the Royal Society of Chemistry. His research is focused on understanding the transition to a low carbon economy and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers, technical reports, and books in this context. Niall has more than a decade’s experience as a consultant to the public and private sectors. He has worked with a range of private sector organisations spanning the energy industry and financial sector, and spent two years on secondment to the UK Government Department BEIS (now DESNZ) where he acted as an expert policy advisor on CCUS and CDR, contributing to the development of the UK’s Net Zero Strategy and the business models that underpin current investments in CCUS and CDR. Niall has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of TotalEnergies, the Norwegian CCS Research Centre (NCCS), and Joule. He was a member of the US National Petroleum Council (NPC) CCUS Roadmap Team, as well as the technical working group of the Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP), the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA), and acts as a science advisor to a number of venture capital, private equity funds, and global banks. A multi award winning scientist, Niall was awarded the Qatar Petroleum medal for his research in 2010 and the IChemE’s Nicklin and Junior Moulton medals for his work on low carbon energy in 2015 and 2021, respectively.