Alex is a physical chemist who leads a research group that develops and studies catalysts for the sustainable production of fuels. Current interests include the development of electrolyzers for carbon dioxide reduction in acids and the study of both inorganic and organic materials for solar fuels production. Alex joined the the department of Chemistry and the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy in 2012 following posts at Imperial College London and PhD studies at the University of Nottingham. Alex and Jenny work take the lead in delivering the network activities with the support of the networks project manager. As part of his role with the SCN Alex is one of the UK representatives for Mission Innovation activities on Solar to X and he also leads the technology development program of the UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical economy.

Jenny works at the intersection of many disciplines, including physics, synthetic biology, chemical biology, engineering and material science; but electrochemistry is central to all her activities. The goal of the Jenny's work is to develop smart bio-hybrid approaches that can serve as tools to understand the bioenergetics of complex biological systems and as a platform to launch new biotechnologies to address a range of societal needs (including for renewable energy generation, carbon capture, precision farming, environmental sensing, and medicine). A focus in on re-wiring photosynthesis for sustainable photo-energy conversion. Jenny completed her PhD in bioinorganic chemistry at the University of Sydney, Australia, with a brief stint at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she developed redox active platinum-based anti-cancer agents and studied their biodistribtion/metabolism within tumour models. She then became a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow at the University of Cambridge to explore how biocatalysts can be exploited to generate solar fuels through 'semi-artificial photosynthesis'. She has since been awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. She has recently been awarded the RSC Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal and the L'Oreal UNESCO Sustainable Development award for Women in Science.

Glenda is a highly experienced project manager having previously worked on projects within chemistry, physics and geography in the university sector.

Julea Butt is a professor of biophysics whose work provides fundamental insight into the coupling of enzymes to electrodes and synthetic light-harvesting materials with the aims of inspiring new biotechnology including sustainable electronic materials and biohybrid approaches to semi-artificial photosynthesis. Highlights include understanding and harnessing electron transfer through cytochrome nanowires that span bacterial cell walls. Her group employ diverse methodologies including protein engineering, advanced spectroscopies, structure resolution and state-of-the-art protein film electrochemistry. In recognition of her achievements Julea received the 2021 Katsumi Niki Prize for Bioelectrochemistry from the International Society of Electrochemistry, a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2015 and the inaugural Young Investigator Medal from the British Biophysical Society

Ifan leads the Interfacial Electrochemistry Group at the Department of Materials. Ifan joined Imperial College in July 2017. Prior to Imperial, he was at the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU); he was first employed as a postdoctoral researcher, then as assistant professor and finally as associate professor and leader of the Electrocatalysis Group there. In 2015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) appointed Ifan as the Peabody Visiting Associate Professor. He taught and conducted research at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT for a whole semester. Ifan’s research aims to enable the large-scale electrochemical conversion of renewable energy to fuels and valuable chemicals and vice versa. Such processes will be critical in order to allow the increased uptake of renewable energy.

Libby is a Professor of Energy Materials at Newcastle University. Research in her group focuses on solar cell and solar fuel devices that function at a molecular level and challenge the conventional solid-state photovoltaic technologies. This involves materials development, device assembly and characterization of the underpinning photophysics and electrochemistry. Her current roles include being the academic lead for the EPSRC Northeast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy & Microscopy Facility, Institution Director of the EPSRC CDT Renewable Energy at Northeast Universities (ReNU), and she is the engagement lead for the UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy. Libby is also the co-Director of the Centre for Energy at Newcastle, Director of the £30M Newcastle University Academic Track (NUAcT) Fellowship scheme.

Alex brings expertise in novel materials for carbon capture. The aim of the Forse group is to understand and improve materials that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the global warming crisis. Limiting global warming to 1.5 ºC requires the rapid development and deployment of a range of greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. In the Forse group they explore the functional behaviour of new materials for CO2 capture and electrochemical energy storage. They specialise in the application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy techniques that are complemented by synthetic chemistry, electrochemistry and computational chemistry.

Gianluca Li Puma is Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Loughborough University. His academic qualifications include: Laurea, Chemical Engineering (University of Palermo, Italy, 1992) MPhil, Chemical Engineering (University of Bath, 1993) PhD, Chemical Engineering (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1996). This was followed by a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at HKUST on photocatalysis & photoreaction engineering research. From 2000-2010 he was Assistant and Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham. He has extensive expertise in the field of solar fuels and photocatalysis including in process intensification and reactor design.