Warwick School of Engineering will provide experience and knowledge of heat pump technology, thermal storage, solar thermal energy and energy transformation technologies;
Warwick Business School will contribute new and novel energy trading strategies and experience of business models in the energy market, as well as reducing energy demand through behavioural change.
Loughborough University will provide its expertise in multi-scale thermal storage systems, solar thermal collectors, design of energy efficient products and consumer interaction research.
Ulster University will provide experience and knowledge of new high temperature heat pump technology, demand side management and integration of renewable energy and energy storage, together with flexibility within future energy electricity markets.
London South Bank University has expertise in evaluating impacts of new technologies e.g. using its SIRACH academic-industry networking group, as well as experience in energy storage using cooling, waste heat recovery technologies and district energy network solutions.
Management Committee
The Principal and Co-Investigators lead and manage the overall project through regular meetings of a Management Committee.
Bob leads Warwick Sustainable Thermal Energy Technologies research group at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on sorption systems that can be used for heat driven heat pumps or cooling devices. Other sorption applications include heat transformers and thermochemical heat stores.
Philip Eames is Professor of Renewable Energy and Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST). His research focuses on various aspects of renewable energy systems, energy in buildings and thermal energy storage.
David is the Academic Director of the Warwick Global Energy MBA in WBS. He is interested in how the structure of the global energy industry is changing, how new business models are finding success and how management practices are changing.
Victoria is Professor of User Centred Design and co-leads the Design for Future Living Lab at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on how people interact with their environment and the products and services they use, particularly in the domestic energy field.
Neil Hewitt is a Professor of Energy and is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies at Ulster University. He is a member of the Institute of Physics, Institute of Refrigeration and the Energy Institute.
Graeme is a professor at London South Bank University with over 30 years of experience in refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps. He leads LSBU's Heating and Cooling Group and is also an Advisor to Mission Innovation challenge IC#7 on affordable heating and cooling of buildings.
Dr Ming Huang is Reader in Renewable Energy. Her principal research areas include Phase Change Material for thermal energy storage, building integrated photovoltaics, solar energy thermal applications, heat pumps, underfloor heating, numerical modelling and CFD.
Stan is Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems at the University of Warwick. His work is based around engineering systems for efficient use of low to medium temperature heat.
The Advisory Board for the project consists of a range of members drawn from industry and trade organisations not involved directly in the project, but with particular interest in the research undertaken within the project, due to its relevance and potential impact on their own activities and areas of expertise. These members meet every 6 months to review the work undertaken to date and provide comments and advice with regard to how they believe the work should be developed.
Current members of the Advisory Board comprise:
We aim to foster an inclusive culture within LoT-NET, which promotes equality, values diversity and maintains a working and social environment in which the rights and dignity of all our staff, students, partners and stakeholders are respected.
The members of the LoT-NET ED&I are Prof Neil Hewitt, Prof Vicky Haines, Dr Ming Huang, Dr Henrique Lagoeiro and Dr Angeles Rivero Pacho.
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