Subject
Engineering
Department name
Department of Engineering
Course(s)
College Lecturer (Engineering)
President
Professor (Grade 11)
Tutor for Graduate Students
Resource efficiency; Energy and Material efficiency; Whole energy systems and Sustainable Materials
BA,M.Phil,PhD
Jonathan is a University Lecturer in Energy, Transport and Urban Infrastructure at the University of Cambridge. He studied Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Canterbury (NZ), and after five years working in industry and five years development work in Peru, moved to Cambridge for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. Jonathan then completed a PhD with the title Engineering fundamentals of energy efficiency before taking up the role of Research Associate for the WellMet2050 research programme, exploring all options to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the production of steel and aluminium goods.
Research Interests
Jonathan's research interests include whole energy systems, energy and material demand reduction and low-carbon energy technologies.
Jonathan's energy research aims to characterise physical efficiency limits for energy devices, systems and services and provide a consistent frameworks for evaluating energy demand reduction options and emissions abatement strategies.
Jonathan also works on novel material efficiency options for reducing demand for energy intensive materials as an alternative carbon abatement strategy for industry. This work is described in the book, Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open (available for free download).
Keywords
- Sustainable Development
- Energy, transport and urban infrastructure
- Material Efficiency
- Energy Efficiency
- Demand Reduction
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Fitzwilliam Fellows Dr Jonathan Cullen and Professor James Elliott are working with colleagues at the University of Cambridge towards a shift in thinking from a ‘take, make, throw-away’ plastic world towards ‘recycle, recover, re-use’.
Professor James Elliott’s research is going back to the future and has the potential to have a big impact on our use of plastic.