Innes is a PhD researcher in the School of Chemical, Materials, and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He is supervised by Dr. Brant Walkley and is a member of the Sustainable Materials at Sheffield (SMASH) research group. He also has industrial supervisors from UK National Nuclear Laboratory and Sellafield Ltd. 

Innes completed his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering (BEng) with an Industrial Placement Year at the University of Sheffield in 2024, where he won the Martin Pitt Prize (BEng with the highest mark in the Design Project Report 23/24). His year in industry was at a large scale glue and resin production facility called Campact Ltd, who are part of the EGGER UK, a wood-based panel manufacturing company in Hexham. Previously he also completed a SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) project which involved computational screening of novel photocatalytic materials for Hydrogen production.

Innes’ PhD research focuses on the capabilities of next generation limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) in encapsulating radioactive materials. His research is funded in part by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and also by the EPSRC as part of the SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear) CDT, a consortium training the next generation of nuclear scientists and engineers.