Dr Oliver Inderwildi
Dr Oliver Inderwildi
Oliver Inderwildi is an expert in emission control and energy supply, specialising in the transport sector. He is a theoretical chemist who works on the means to reduce greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions without affecting mobility. His interests range from synthesis of alternative fuels to managing resource scarcity and public policy design.
Dr Inderwildi is head of the Smith School’s Low-Carbon Energy Centre. He is the lead author of the ‘Future of Mobility Roadmap’ published by Oxford University and editor of the ‘Future of Biorefineries’ white paper published by the World Economic Forum. At present he is editing a book on ‘Energy, Transport and the Environment’ together with Professor Sir David King.
Before joining the Smith School, Dr Inderwildi worked as a research fellow under the supervision of Professor Sir David King at the University of Cambridge and was a research associate at Trinity Hall.
He completed his PhD on automotive emission control under the supervision of Professor Juergen Warnatz at the Centre for Scientific Computing at the University of Heidelberg. He was awarded prestigious postdoctoral research fellowship from the German Research Foundation for his work.
oliver.inderwildi [at] smithschool.ox.ac.uk
Selected Recent publications (A complete list of his publications is here)
T. Shirvani, O.R. Inderwildi, X.Yan, P.P. Edwards, D.A. King, ‘Life cycle analysis and greenhouse gas analysis for algae-derived biodiesel‘, Energy & Environmental Science, 2011 DOI: 10.10139/C1EE01791H
O.R. Inderwildi, D.A. King, ‘Quo Vadis Biofuels’, Energy & Environmental Science 2009, 2, 343 – 346 DOI: 10.1039/B822951C
N.A. Owen, O.R. Inderwildi, D.A. King,’The status of conventional world oil reserves – hype or cause for concern?’, Energy Policy, 2010, 38: 4743
O.R. Inderwildi, S.J. Jenkins, D.A. King, ‘ Biofuels: Mechanistic Studies of Hydrocarbon Combustion and Synthesis on Noble Metals’, Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 5253 –5255
O.R. Inderwildi, D.A. King, S.J. Jenkins, ‘Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis of Liquid Fuels: Learning Lessons from Homogeneous Catalysis’, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2009, 11, 11110–11112
C. Carey, O.R. Inderwildi, D.A. King, ‘Advanced aerospace materials: past, present and future’, Aviation and the Environment, 2009, 3, 22-27
C. Carey, O.R. Inderwildi, D.A. King, ‘Airport Focus: Is a Thames Estuary Airport Feasible?‘, Aviation and the Environment, 2010, 1, 32-37
M. Sander, A. Raj, O.R. Inderwildi, M. Kraft, S. Kureti, H. Bockhorn, ‘The simultaneous reduction of nitric oxide and soot in emissions from diesel engines‘, Carbon 2009, 47, 866–875
A. Holdway, A.Williams, O.R. Inderwildi and Professor Sir David King ‘Indirect Emissions from Electric Vehicles: Emissions from Electricity Generation‘ Quantifies the indirect well-to-wheels CO2 emissions for three electric vehicles when used in the US, the UK, and France, Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1825-1832 DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00031K
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