Jon Gibbins

Jon Gibbins

Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture, University of Sheffield

Centre Director, UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre

Fellow of the Institute of Energy

Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Jon is the Centre Director of the UKCarbon Capture and Storage Research Centre and a member of the Centre'sCoordination Group and is the Research Area Champion for SolventPost-Combustion.

He has worked on coal and biomass gasification and combustion for over 30 years, at Foster Wheeler, Imperial College and the University of Edinburgh and oncarbon capture and storage (CCS) since 2002. He is currently Professor of PowerPlant Engineering and Carbon Capture at the University of Sheffield andDirector of the UK CCS Research Centre. He is involved in a number of other academic, industrial and government initiatives on CCS in the UK and overseas, including the SaskPower CCS Global Consortium Advisory Committee. He was also amember of SaskPower's Clean Coal Project Advisory Panel for their 400MW oxyfuel plant study in 2006-2007, has participated in reports and inquiries on CCS fora range of UK Government and other organisations and has contributed to anumber of media pieces and other outreach activities on CCS. He also takes aninterest in broader energy system issues, as a member of the DECC ScientificAdvisory Group from 2010 to 2014 and through participation in ongoing work onelectricity system balancing, economics and regulation.