Mathieu Lucquiaud

Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Mathieu Lucquiaud is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at OIES and Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK where he provides the leadership to an internationally leading activity in the field of clean, low-carbon energy with Carbon Capture and Storage.

He holds a M.Eng in Energy and Environmental Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Science of Lyon (INSA Lyon), France and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. He has worked on CO2 capture technologies at Imperial College London (2005-2010), the University of Edinburgh (2010-2022) and now the University of Sheffield.

His research is aimed at developing climate change technologies necessary to achieve a zero-carbon society, with a focus on carbon capture technologies, zero carbon electricity and hydrogen and the decarbonisation of heavy industries. He combines modelling with techno-economics, experimental work and pilot scale work at the Translational Energy Research Centre. He is interested in de-risking these technologies towards commercial deployment and making them fit for purpose for their role in decarbonising future energy systems.

In 2018, Mathieu launched the first Open Online Course on Carbon Capture and Storage to increase awareness and understanding of the key role of the technology towards climate change mitigation, with over 25,000 participants in over 150 countries joining the course.

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