Dr Oliver Inderwildi

Dr Oliver Inderwildi

Dr Oliver Inderwildi is head of the Low-Carbon Energy Centre at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Scuola di Studi Superiori of the University of Turin and serves as Advisory Board member for ‘Energy & Environmental Science’, a high-impact journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Oliver was educated in Science and Engineering at the University of Heidelberg, the Swiss Institute of Technology and the University of Amsterdam. He received additional training in economics and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2005, Oliver became a research fellow at the University of Cambridge working with Professor Sir David King and a research associate at Trinity Hall.

Oliver’s research group applies a broad range of scientific techniques ranging from quantum-chemical modeling of fundamental processes to life-cycle assessments and energy-emissions modeling to modern energy problems.

Research led by Oliver has been featured by CNN, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and many other newspapers. He is also regularly interviewed by news channels such as Euronews or the BBC World Service.

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