Dr. Ian Wilkinson
Chief Operating Officer, Geopura Ltd
Interests:
Energy systems that deploy hydrogen and ammonia as a practical / scalable hydrogen vector; commercial ventures establishing and scaling UK’s green hydrogen economy.
Biography:
Ian is founder of Geopura Ltd, a company that develops and installs systems using renewable energy, normally solar PV or wind, to create hydrogen and hydrogen based zero emission fuels. This fuel is then transported to off-grid locations where a local generator converts it to electrical power.
He previously worked in Siemens Energy’s UK Energy Transition team developing demonstration and near-term commercial projects in hydrogen energy systems. While with Siemens, he led the consortium that designed, built and, in 2018, launched the Green ammonia energy storage system demonstrator at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Ian has a further 13 years’ experience in industrial research and development, gained working on the development of superconducting magnets for MRI scanners at Siemens Magnet Technology.
He holds an MSci and PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol, and an MBA from Oxford Brookes University.