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Hydrogen Cogeneration: Speakers

We are pleased to announce the confirmed speakers at the Hydrogen Cogeneration event taking place on March 2.

Keynote speaker: Ben Harrop (Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero)

Ben is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero Hydrogen Production Strategy Team, responsible for developing the Government’s strategic view of the role that various technologies could play in meeting the UK’s low-carbon hydrogen production ambitions. His work includes engaging across Government and with external stakeholders to understand the exciting potential of nuclear-enabled hydrogen production and related policy implications.

Ben was closely involved in developing the latest production strategy thinking in the recent British Energy Security Strategy (April 2022) and Hydrogen Strategy Update to Market (July 2022). He has been working on the hydrogen-related policy since 2018, before which he worked on transport decarbonisation policy in the Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero Carbon Budgets Team.

Anthony Reid (Frazer-Nash Consultancy)

Anthony is a Senior Engineer at Frazer-Nash Consultancy in the Physical Systems Modelling group. He completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and has since been working on energy-related projects, mostly focusing on power transmission and distribution.

Anthony has a strong interest in understanding the role that hydrogen can play in achieving Net Zero and how data science techniques can be applied to help organisations benefit from the upcoming energy system transition. He believes that nuclear power will play a pivotal role in achieving Net Zero, offering low carbon, whole system resilience and reliability.

Mike Crawforth (Rolls-Royce SMR)

Mike Crawforth is the Business Development Manager for Rolls-Royce SMR, bringing experience of nearly 15 years in the nuclear industry, including time spent working across a variety of new product introduction programmes including the UK’s Dreadnought submarine programme and an innovative lunar surface fission micro-reactor.

Mike is now working primarily with industrial energy users and policy makers to develop new ways to apply a zero-carbon solution to the energy ecosystems of tomorrow.

Fran Jones (Frazer-Nash Consultancy)

Fran is a Senior Consultant at Frazer-Nash Consultancy working in the field of chemistry & materials. She has been working in the nuclear industry for around 15 years, primarily focussed on materials degradation.

Before this, she worked in high temperature solid oxide fuel cell/electrolyser development for around five years at St Andrews University and later spin out St Andrews Fuel Cells Ltd. More recently, Fran has been combining these two areas of expertise, and was technical lead for the BEIS Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply project examining hydrogen cogeneration from advanced nuclear technologies.

Luke Tan (Supercritical Solutions)

Luke is the Chief Product Officer at Supercritical, a UK based startup that is developing the world's first high pressure, ultra-efficient electrolyser. He is leading on product definition, partnering with industry to bring Supercritical's innovative clean technology solutions to market.
Luke and his co-founders started Supercritical in 2020 with a mission to pioneer hydrogen technology that would enable a life beyond fossil fuels. He has built his entire career around hydrogen. Prior to Supercritical, he was at Johnson Matthey, starting in the design of hydrogen to methanol plants before transitioning to fuel cells, leading their growth and expansion in Asia.

Emin Veron (National Nuclear Laboratory)

Emin's background with respect to nuclear-enabled hydrogen is in economic analysis, where he has completed study on topics from the impact of the Regulated Asset Base (RAB) model on the levelised cost of hydrogen from nuclear electricity, the factors which could best enable market growth for a future nuclear-hydrogen economy, to the cost, benefit and impact of a range of scenarios of nuclear-hydrogen cogeneration.

Steph Jones (Frazer-Nash Consultancy)

Steph is a chartered engineer with a background in aerospace, systems engineering, and advanced materials. She has eight years professional experience, working in multidisciplinary teams.

Within the Technology Management team at Frazer-Nash, Steph has worked on a range of energy related programmes, including a recent study on transport and storage infrastructure requirements for the Hydrogen Economy in 2035. She has experience in research and development, delivering projects from low to high Technology Readiness Levels. 

Neil Murray (Nuclear AMRC)

Neil Murray is the Nuclear AMRC’s business development manager for advanced nuclear technologies. He previously worked in applications engineering and sales, predominantly in the automotive sector.

Tristan Davenne (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Tristan Davenne received a BEng from Bath University and a PhD from Cambridge University on the topic of ‘Dilution Induced Particle Nucleation’ in 2002. Since graduation he worked as a senior development engineer for BOCE for 4 years, becoming a chartered engineer in 2005 and has worked as a research engineer at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory since 2006.

In 2016/17 he was also a part time visiting fellow in Energy Storage at Nottingham University. He is an inventor on more than 10 patents on a diverse range of topics including vacuum pumps, cryocoolers, laser gain media and ammonia cracking. He is an author on over 50 peer reviewed publications and has an h-index of 17. Tristan has been working as a senior engineer within STFC’s Energy Research Unit for the last 5 years and is currently leading four projects that involve the generation and use of green ammonia.

Michael Drury (UK Atomics)

Michael is the Managing Director of UK Atomics developing the Thorium Waste Burner for commercial deployment to help decarbonise the hard to abate industries and provide low cost energy to the grid. Previously, Michael held roles as MD of reactor vendors and has represented the UK on Advanced Nuclear Technologies at the IAEA. He has led the New Build, SMR and AMR teams as account director for the National Nuclear Laboratory, working across both Gen III and Gen IV reactors, and has held senior positions within industry such as the chair of the UK Molten Salt Technology Platform.

He has worked in industry developing engineering solutions on major projects such as Chernobyl NSC, ITER Fusion programme, Magnox decommissioning programmes and has worked across the existing UK fleet of AGR  and PWR reactors. Having started his career at Jaguar Landrover delivering 6-sigma investigations and volume production vehicles, he is now focussed on volume production of advanced modular reactors, in particular the Thorium molten salt reactor; providing thermal heat and power for deployment in the UK.

Steve Dacre (Northern Gas Networks)

Steve Dacre started his career as an apprentice Gas Service Engineer thirty years ago and has progressed through the industry to become the Vulnerability Innovations Lead for Northern Gas Network. By engaging with businesses both in and out of the sector, he has built a strong understanding of the current and potential issues faced by all customers and wider stakeholders, and how these can be overcome.

Steve closely follows the development of technological, digital and data innovations which will benefit all customers, stakeholders, employees, and the business. Steve says “My thoughts are firmly on the line of ‘If it can be imagined, it can be done!". By keeping data at the heart of decision making, we are driving business performance forward to new horizons as we continually learn the 'Art of the Possible'.

Thomas Docherty (ECITB)

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is the employer-led skills, standards and qualifications body for the development of the engineering construction workforce of Great Britain. An arms-length body of the UK Government, the ECITB reports to the Department for Education. 

As the ECITB Head of Strategic Engagement for the North of England & Scotland, Thomas leads on engagement with government agencies, as well as engaging with major engineering companies, training providers and other organisations to ensure the region has workers with the skills to meet the needs of the engineering construction industry, including in nuclear and hydrogen. Earlier in his career, Thomas worked for BNFL and Network Rail, as well as spending five years as a Member of Parliament, including three years as a member of the Commons Defence Committee and two years as a Shadow Minister.

Henry Cathcart (Frazer-Nash Consultancy)

Henry Cathcart leads the physical systems modelling group at Frazer-Nash Consultancy. He and his group perform technological, operational and economic modelling of a variety of systems, with a focus on those whose performance is uncertain due to their novelty including geological nuclear waste disposal, space based solar power and nuclear hydrogen co-generation.

Christian Wix (Topsoe)

Christian Wix holds a MSc degree in chemical engineering and a degree in entrepreneur leadership from the Technical University of Denmark.

He started his career within process engineering and technology demonstration, and has subsequently worked primarily with development and commercialisation of new technologies within renewables and gasification. At Topsoe, he is currently Head of Product Development for the company’s PtX products and has worked with electrification of chemical products for the last five years.

Ieuan Williams (Nuclear Industry Association)

Originally from Anglesey, Ieuan joined the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) in 2018 from the office of Albert Owen MP. As Head of Policy & Public Affairs, he’s responsible for the NIA’s political strategy and policy engagement with key government and parliament figures.

Phil Rogers (Equilibrion)

Phil Rogers is the Director and co-owner of Equilibrion, a new business focussed on furthering the opportunity for nuclear to play its role in the broader energy sector decarbonisation, mainly through hydrogen, heat, synthetic fuels and flexible electricity.

In previous roles, Phil has supported UK Government on how nuclear can participate in the decarbonisation of the hydrogen, aviation, shipping and industrial sectors and played a significant role in the ongoing UK Government AMR programme. As a member of Hydrogen UK and the Nuclear Industry Association, Phil and Equilibrion are promoting the use of nuclear energy with end users across the sector. Phil is a chartered engineer with a PhD in mechanical engineering.

Anton Tvelenev (KBR)

Anton is a Subject Matter Expert for Syngas/Hydrogen, CO2 capture process & Petrochemical Value Chain analysis, participating in the development of Bankable Feasibility Studies and provision of technical advisory services for Government agencies, Project Finance and M&A sectors.

Anton has over 17 years of experience within the associated industries with major global process engineering companies for major projects in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Russia. His experience includes several high-profile transaction/project finance engagements within EMEA.

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