New Economics of Decarbonising the Global Economy (NewEDGE)
Terry Barker is the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) based at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He is the Leader of Research Programme “Integrated Modelling” in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Besides the Tyndall work, his research responsibilities include directing the Centre´s contribution to the UK Energy Research Centre on the domestic and transport submodels of the UK Multisectoral Dynamic Model (MDM-E3). He is also a participant in the FP6 European project Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Europe (ADAM), using the European and world models (E3ME and E3MG). He is also Chairman of Cambridge Econometrics, a company applying the results of modelling research for business and government. He was a Co-ordinating Lead Author for the IPCC´s Fourth and Third Assessment Reports working on mitigation. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Climate Strategies and Management, of the International Journal of Global Warming and of Economic Systems Research. His research interests include induced technological change and the new economics of climate change, systematic modelling of policies to achieve climate stabilisation, and real carbon prices and long-term growth.
Paul Haynes combines the role of research associate with that of communication’s manager for the NewEdge project. The research role involves analysing the way social networks contribute to effective and deliberative decision making. This including an analysis of the way in which academic research outputs are transformed into policy instruments so that enable decision makers are able to make informed decisions. The communication manager’s role is to engage with key policymakers, environmental and policy research groups and related stakeholders, to ensure that the findings from the centre’s research are disseminated appropriately to the individual needs of each group in order to maximise its relevance in informing climate change decision making. In addition, the communications role is to explain and promote the research undertaken by 4CMR in order to make the research accessible to a wide audience, and ensure that research findings are made available to people with an interest in climate change.
Jun Li currently is a Research Associate of 4CMR as a data analysis expert and software programmer. He has a Degree of BSc and MSc degree in Software Engineering, and a PhD degree in noisy data analysis based on Artificial Intelligence techniques. Jun Li spent eight years working for Bank of China as a software programmer, and then three years for London Metropolitan University on data mining and analysis as a research associate. His expertise is mainly on IT and finance area. Currently he is working on Cambridge E3MG modelling.
Martin Sewell is a Senior Research Associate at 4CMR. He is working on the NewEDGE research project as an Academic PA/Modeller. He has a Degree of BSc with Honours in Mathematics from the University of Bristol, a Degree of MSc in Computing Science from Birkbeck College, University of London, and has submitted a PhD thesis on 'The Application of Intelligent Systems to Financial Time Series Analysis' in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. He has published in the areas of computer science, geography, psychology, statistics and finance. Martin was an R&D Technician playing a major role in developing the tetrahedral tea bag at Unilever Research. He has worked in both foreign exchange trading and coffee trading, as a programmer in The School of Water Sciences at Cranfield University as part of the TiGrESS project, and as a quant with two statistical arbitrage hedge funds. He is also a member of the Society of Technical Analysts.
Mark Syddall is a Senior Research Associate at 4CMR. He is working on the NewEDGE research project as a computer system administrator and modeller. Mark has ten years' experience as a system administrator, supporting academic medical genetics researchers, semiconductor designers and software developers, working across a broad range of operating systems and hardware platforms. He has an MEng in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, and a PhD from the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, where he worked on parameter identification and identifiability of penicillin fermentation models. Mark spent three years as a consultant simulation engineer with Cambridge Control, at that time the UK MATLAB resellers, providing technical support to the UK MATLAB community, and developing water treatment plant models for UK water companies.
Ann Thompson is a Senior Project Administrator at 4CMR and is project manager on the NewEDGE project. She has commercial experience working in research project management, initially for TMO Renewables, an SME developing biocatalysts to manufacture biofuels and biopolymers from renewable plant materials participating in the DTI New and Renewable Energy Programme and EU FP5 in Economic and Efficient Energy for a Competitive Europe. Most recently she was responsible for the proprietary Quality Control and Assurance for a dairy company in New Zealand also developing and managing their research programme in dairy biotechnology and nutrition. She holds a PhD from the Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College where she worked on a project to manufacture bioethanol as a fuel from waste plant material in collaboration with a spin off company from Imperial College.
Aleix Altimiras is a PhD student at 4CMR. He has a double MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Paris and the Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya and holds a postgraduate degree in international relations from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He specialized in energy generation and did his Master's thesis at the Technische Universität Dresdren on decentralised energy generation using biogas. He has worked as project manager in the automotive industry, designing and implementing assembly chains. Most recently he has worked as system administrator with various operating systems. He is currently working on the NewEDGE project developing the Energy Technology Model (ETM). His PhD research is concerned with an integrated approach to assess the economic feasibility of Bio-Energy and Carbon Storage plants (BECS).
Sören Lindner is a PhD student at 4CMR working on the NewEDGE project specialising in energy technology policies. His current work is focusing on suitable policies for Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) for the Global and European energy sector. Soeren has a BSc in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia and a Masters degree in Environmental Management from the University of Kiel, Germany. In his Master's thesis he assessed the economic and environmental potential of several energy supply options for a region in Northern Germany.
Andrew Skelton is a PhD student at 4CMR working on the NewEDGE project. He has an MEng in Engineering from the University of Durham and an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge. He has three years’ experience as a design engineer working on projects ranging from electromechanical medical devices to industrial robotics. More recently he has worked as a researcher on a new book about climate change policy aimed at the general public. His PhD research is concerned with the modelling of industrial sector-based approaches in international climate policy, with a particular focus on the iron and steel sector.
