Professor Jon Gibbins

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture

Jon Gibbins
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j.gibbins@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 7234

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Professor Jon Gibbins
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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Jon is the Centre Director of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre and a member of the Centre's Coordination Group and is the Research Area Champion for Solvent Post-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 on carbon capture and storage (CCS) since 2002. He is currently Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture at the University of Sheffield and Director 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 a member 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 for a range of UK Government and other organisations and has contributed to a number of media pieces and other outreach activities on CCS.

He also takes an interest in broader energy system issues, as a member of the DECC Scientific Advisory Group from 2010 to 2014 and through participation in ongoing work on electricity system balancing, economics and regulation.

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