Dr Ausilio Bauen
Dr Ausilio Bauen is a director of E4tech.
He has extensive research and consulting experience on technical, economic, environmental and policy issues relating to decentralised generation and alternative fuel production and infrastructure. His focus is on biomass energy, fuel cells and related fuels for stationary and transport applications, and decentralised generation integration into energy systems. Ausilio has worked with industry, government, non-government and international organisations. He has co-authored journal articles and books, including two Financial Times Energy reports. Ausilio holds degrees in Physics and Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Environmental Technology with Energy Policy from Imperial College, and has a PhD on techno-economic and environmental aspects of biomass energy from King's College London. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London’s Centre for Energy Policy and Technology. Ausilio has also worked in Switzerland and Brazil and speaks English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Expertise
New and renewable energy technologies and systems, fuel cycle analysis, environmental impacts and external costs, energy and environmental policy, and sustainable development.
Adam Chase
Adam Chase is a director of E4tech.
He is based in our London office and leads our work on energy policy, strategy and finance. He has degrees in Economics, Engineering, Energy & Environmental Technology. Adam has been a Director of E4tech since joining in 2000 and he has played a role in most of the projects which E4tech has undertaken through its London office. His project work often relates to corporate or national strategy and involves an understanding of how energy systems operate, rather than technologies in isolation. Adam’s particular interest is low carbon innovation in the energy and automotive sectors. He also has operational responsibility for the London office.
Adam was previously a manager with the global management consulting firm A.T.Kearney, where he took part in and led teams engaged in a wide range of strategic and operational projects across the international energy and chemicals sectors. Prior to this, Adam worked for seven years in the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry and also spent time as a journalist with the Financial Times organisation, focusing on energy, environment and automotive issues. He speaks English and French.
Expertise
Strategy and operations consulting, project management, market assessment, business growth, oil and gas industry, automotive industry, energy technology, hydrogen energy systems.
Dr David Hart
Dr David Hart is a director of E4tech.
He
has consulted and carried out research on fuel cell and hydrogen issues for a
wide range of organisations worldwide, including national governments, major
industrial companies, financial organisations and NGOs. In addition to his work
as a Director of E4tech, he is also Head of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research at
Imperial College London's Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT), and
sits on the Steering Committee of the Grove Fuel Cell Symposium, one of the
leading global fora for fuel cell experts.
David is recognised as one of the leading experts in hydrogen energy technology and infrastructure, and the associated policy and environmental issues; and in fuel cells used for transport, portable and stationary decentralised power generation. He has led over a dozen fuel cell and hydrogen assessments for due diligence work, in addition to strategic analyses and a wide variety of reports and papers, and has been an invited keynote speaker on fuel cell and hydrogen issues on five continents. David holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering with German from the University of Bath and in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, and his PhD at Imperial College was in Hydrogen Energy Systems. He has worked in Germany and Japan as a control systems engineer, and speaks English, German, Japanese and French.
Expertise
Strategic, technical, economic, environmental, market and policy analysis of
fuel cell and hydrogen energy systems.
Jo Howes
Jo Howes is a Managing Consultant with E4tech and has a background in materials science and hydrogen energy research. She has worked on a very wide range of policy and commercial client projects, covering novel technologies, estimates of future technology and market potential, and innovation systems. She has previously worked with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), writing their briefing note 'Prospects for a hydrogen economy'. Jo holds degrees in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and in Environmental Technology with Energy Policy from Imperial College. She has also studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and at the University of Cape Town and has worked in Thailand. She speaks English and French.
Expertise
Biomass and waste technology and policy, analysis and modelling of hydrogen energy systems, including renewable energy integration, transport fuels and policy, materials for energy technologies.
Claire Chudziak
Claire Chudziak is a Senior Consultant based in E4tech's London office and has a background in energy and climate policy. Her work has primarily focused on bioenergy (technologies, resource potential, due diligence), but has also included life cycle greenhouse gas assessment, scoping of investment opportunities in renewables, and the application of innovation theory and techno-economic analysis to inform policy making. She has previously worked in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where she worked on policy and communications relating to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Claire has worked in the waste management sector at Mouchel, preparing Environmental Impact Assessments and scoping documents and she also undertook an internship in the Sustainable Business Solutions team at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Claire holds a degree in Zoology from Cambridge (specialising in molecular and developmental biology) and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College (specialising in Energy Policy).
Expertise
Sustainable energy, in particular bioenergy, and climate policy.
Dr François Vuille
Dr François Vuille is a Managing Consultant in Lausanne. His activities have largely focused on projects in the fields of photovoltaics and bioenergy, particularly on understanding the prospects and barriers (technical, policy and socio-economic) to novel technology deployment. François is one of the lead authors of the Bioenergy Review commissioned and published by the International Energy Agency. François has worked with industry (automotive OEMs, power utilities, oil majors), financial organisations (investment banks, PE/VC funds, etc.), governments (Swiss, UK, Chile, etc.), non-government and international organisations (IEA, European Commission, European Space Agency). He has been increasingly helping finance institutions understand the complexities and seize the opportunities in the energy sector, developing sector reviews and conducting due diligence support and technology scouting. François holds masters degrees in Physics and in Energy Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, as well as a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cape Town. He speaks French, English and German, as well as some Spanish and Swiss German.
Expertise
Photovoltaics and bioenergy technologies, technology deployment strategies, technology appraisal, sector reviews, techno-economic analysis, market analysis.
Robert Ball
Robert Ball is a Consultant with E4tech, based in the London office. Robert has an MSc in Energy and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering with Energy Resource Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. His studies covered a wide range of renewable energy topics and his MSc dissertation focused on the role heat pumps could play in meeting the UK’s domestic heating demand. Robert’s BEng Honours project involved the design, manufacture and testing of low-cost thermal diode roofing insulation for use in dwellings in hot climates. He speaks English and French.
Expertise
Renewable Energy Technology, Energy in Buildings and related Software Development.
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor is a Consultant based in E4tech's London office. Since joining E4tech in 2008, he has developed biomass supply cost curves for the UK, conducted reviews of gasification technologies for liquid biofuel and bioSNG production, and evaluated the carbon savings of wind-electrolyser systems. Richard is currently leading E4tech’s technical management support to the Carbon Trust’s Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge. Prior to joining E4tech, he worked for REpower UK, monitoring wind turbine operations, and he has also undertaken an internship at the investment bank Rothschild. Richard holds an MMathPhys from Warwick University (specialising in applied Mathematics and theoretical Physics) and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College (specialising in Energy Policy). His final thesis focused on reliability modelling of electricity networks with the integration of renewable energy and microgrids.
Expertise
Biomass resources and prices, gasification technologies, carbon saving modelling, and renewable energy integration.
Fabio Montemurro
Fabio Montemurro is a Consultant based in the London Office. Prior to joining E4tech he worked at EADS Astrium Satellite in Germany as a system engineer and simulator developer for scientific space missions. Fabio holds degrees in Aerospace Engineering (University of Pisa) and Industrial Engineering (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies). He also obtained an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures (Imperial College) with a project on the impact of the electric vehicles on the UK electric system. Other recent project experience includes analysis of PV systems for investors. Fabio speaks Italian, English, German and French.
Expertise
System engineering; control engineering; modelling and optimization; electric vehicles; demand side management; integration of renewable power sources; investments in large-scale PV plants.
Kathrine Vad
Kathrine Vad is a consultant based in E4tech’s Lausanne office. Kathrine has an MSc in Industrial Ecology from the Dutch Universities of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam and a master in Comprehensive Engineering from the French engineering school Ecole Centrale Marseille. Prior to joining E4tech, she worked at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in the Global Sustainability and Climate team.
She has strong knowledge on environmental analytical tools, such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which she has used to analyze different green power generation technologies (wind, bioenergy, etc.).
Kathrine speaks French, English and Danish, as well as some German and Dutch.
Expertise
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), external costs, bioenergy technologies.
Dr Luca Bertuccioli
Dr Luca Bertuccioli is a Senior Consultant based in the Lausanne office and has a background in fluid mechanics and thermal sciences. Prior to joining E4Tech he worked at United Technologies Research Center where he participated and managed projects in a wide range of areas such as the thermo-economic analysis of aircraft and building energy systems, the aerodynamic design and aerothermal analysis of gas turbine components, and the concurrent engineering of synthetic fuels and thermal systems for hypersonic engines. He also has experience developing intellectual property strategies and preparing patent filings and has been awarded six patents. Luca holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, a Post Graduate Diploma from the von Kármán Institute for Fluid Dynamics and an M.A. in Engineering from Cambridge University. He speaks English, French, Italian and German.
Expertise
Thermo-economic analysis, modeling and analysis of energy systems, concurrent engineering, development of intellectual property strategies
Scott Laczay
Scott Laczay is a Consultant based in E4tech's London office. Prior to joining E4tech, he worked at the Imperial College Centre for Environmental Policy, researching historical energy transitions and natural gas conversion. Scott holds an MSc in Environmental Technology specialising in Energy Policy from Imperial College London and a BA in economics and international development from McGill University, Montréal, Canada. His MSc project focused on the GHG emissions and economics of potential biomass power plants with CCS in the UK, which was presented at DECC’s Negative Emissions workshop and the University of Edinburgh’s Bio-CCS workshop.
Expertise
Biomass resources and policy, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), bio-energy technologies.
Scott Hare
Scott Hare is a Senior Consultant with E4tech, based in the London office. Prior to joining E4tech, Scott was a partner in the London Business School Consulting Team, where he led several strategy and research projects. Recent activities include a financial risk assessment of the UK Carbon Reduction Commitment and an economic feasibility analysis in the travel sector. Scott was formerly a project manager at GE where he directed multi-million dollar energy efficiency projects for large industrial properties. Prior to GE, Scott was the engineering manager at a manufacturing start-up focussing on infrastructure for alternative fuels. Whilst there, Scott established a government funded R&D institute and was instrumental in the development of the firm's Hydrogen Fuel Cell practice. He has served on several SAE fuel cell committees and design groups for the Hydrogen Highway in California. Scott holds an MBA from London Business School and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University in Canada.
Expertise
Strategy and business development, industry and market analysis, financial modelling, policy impact assessment, alternative fuel infrastructure, industrial power management systems.
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