Funding and awards

Current Grants 

1. 2025, EPSRC Reef-UKC flex fund: Efficient data centre cooling from renewable power using thermal energy storage, PI.

2. 2025-2027, EPSRC, UK-HyRES Flexible fund: Multi-purpose exploration of Ammonia Reduction of Iron Oxides to enable green steel and high-purity hydrogen supply (MARIO), Co-PI (with Prof Aidong Yang).

3. 2024-2026, EPSRC, EP/Y015924/1: ThermHydes: Thermochemical energy storage-assisted solid hydrogen storage, PI.

4. 2025 EPSRC IAA Workshop grant. Green Ammonia for Net Zero, PI.

Completed Grants (Since 2019) 

1. 2023-2024, Oxford University Challenge Fund, USCF 490: Low-cost Hydrogen Storage for Heating, Cooling and Power, PI.

2. 2024-2025, EPSRC, IAA 0014386: Cold thermal battery development and demonstration, PI.

3. 2024, EPSRC, IAA Strategic Fund: Capital Equipment, PI.

4. 2024, International Science Partnerships Fund, Co-PI.

5. 2023-2024, EPSRC IDRIC Flex 1_12: Synergistic of Carbon Capture, Waste Heat Recovery and Hydrogen Production, PI.

6. 2023-2024, EPSRC Supergen Energy Storage Network+ and Henry Royce Institute : Calcium-looping-based High-Temperature Waste Heat Recovery, PI.

7. 2023-2024, Innovate UK, TS/X011178/1: Solar Photovoltaic-Powered Cooling, Project lead.

8. 2022-2024, EPSRC IAA, 0012805: Chemical Energy Storage of Renewables, PI.

9. 2023-2024, Australia's National Science Agency, CSIRO Hydrogen Fellowship for Dr Yuhan Huang, Host PI.

10.  2022-2023, Innovate UK KTN, Affordable Solar Photovoltaic-Powered Cooling for Fish and Meat Storage, Oxford PI.

11. 2020-2022, Thermal Energy Accelerator, T-ERA Senior Research Fellow in Heating and Cooling, PI.

12. 2022-2023, EPSRC Supergen Cross-hub, EP/SEC/1649379: Off-shore Wind-powered Port Heating and Cooling, Oxford PI.

13. 2021-2022, EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks+ ECR Award, EP/SEN/1002164: Decarbonization of Cooling by Thermal Energy Storage, PI.

14. 2021-2022, IGI-UoB GCRF,UoB 4005:International Cold Chain Roadmap, PI.

15. 2020-2022, Industry, UoB 1412368: Cold energy storage Technologies, PI.

16. 2020-2022, H2020-EU, 101017858: Electro-Intrusion, Co-I.

17. 2019, UK-China Engineering Consortium, Early Career Researcher’s Overseas Mobility Award, PI.