Professor Bill David
Professor in Inorganic Chemistry & STFC Senior Fellow,
University of Oxford
Interests:
Chemical (ammonia - hydrogen) and electrochemical (battery) storage and power provision; RAL green energy demonstrator: technology integration and development.
Biography:
Bill is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, where he completed his Bachelor’s degree and D.Phil, both in Physics, before switching subjects. He is also a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Senior Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
His work involves the research, development and demonstration of renewable and sustainable chemical and electrochemical energy storage systems, and the provision of clean renewable power.
He was the lead author of the recent Royal Society Report ‘Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store’; and advocates transitioning through the lowest disruption routes that build upon existing international infrastructures to realise a real-zero emissions future this side of 2050.