Green Energy

Abhishek Asthana is the Director of Hallam Energy, the energy research group at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2009, he co-founded Hallam Energy and has led and delivered 55 projects of industrial energy research, consultancy and knowledge transfer. He has won £3.5 million funding for SHU, co-authored 37 scientific papers and 1 book, invented 4 patents and developed 5 commercial software packages. He is the Course Director for BEng Energy Engineering and MEng and BEng Chemical Engineering programs at the university. In 2015, he has established a Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) in Energy to train PhD students conducting energy research. The DTA has now grown to 120 PhD students and 200 Supervisors across 19 British Universities in the University Alliance, UK, and he is currently the Deputy Director of DTA. He also recently led the alliance to success in winning €6.5 Million funding from the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND to further expand the DTA program.