THE TEAM
BRIDGING ACAdemiA, BUSINESS and GOVERNMENT
Foresight Transitions is a strategic consultancy firm with world-leading expertise in the use of scientific evidence and systems thinking to develop actionable insight and planning.
Our diverse team combines academic rigor and decades of real-world consulting experience. We have published extensively on systemic futures and science-led decision making for Net Zero and the energy transition, and have delivered strategic consultancy for diverse institutions ranging from the UK Cabinet Office and Atkins to Climate Works Foundation and the IPPC.
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Solomon Brown
Professor of Process and Energy Systems at the University of Sheffield and the Director of EPSRC’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Storage and its Applications.
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Mai Bui
Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, with over 12 years of research experience on carbon capture and storage (CCS).
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Tim Hutty
Research Associate in Residential Decarbonisation at the University of Sheffield. Specialising in numerical optimisation and agent-based modelling.
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Alex Newman
Research Associate specialising in life cycle assessment at the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures within the University of Sheffield.
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Diarmid Roberts
Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, working on the Faraday Institution RelCoBatt project, finding strategies to reduce the cost of the soluble lead flow battery.
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Mathew Wilkes
Research Fellow in Clean Energy at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on developing process and economic models to analyse technologies capable of decarbonisation and achieving Net Zero.
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Mark Workman
Director of Foresight Transitions Ltd and an Affiliate Researcher at Imperial College London where he undertakes research on resource systems, energy transitions, environmental and climate change, violent conflict and the processes of decision making under uncertainty.
