DrBenedict Winchester
Research Associate
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-2880-1243 (opens in a new tab)
- Research AssociateDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) systems for clean water production:
- Winchester, B., Huang, G., Beath, H., Sandwell, P., Cen, J., Nelson, J., and Markides, C.N., "Lifetime optimisation of integrated thermally and electrically driven solar desalination plants." Npj Clean Water 7, 1–15 (2024). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41545-024-00335-4
Agrivoltaics
- Jimoh, A., Beath, H., Markides, C.N. & Winchester, B. (2025) Enhancing solar mini-grid utilisation in farming communities: crop strategies to reduce costs and improve energy access. Environmental research letters. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/addbf2.
- Gasparini, N., Beath, H., Durrant, J.R., Nelson, J., Ortega-Arriaga, P., Ryan, J.W., and Winchester, B., "10. Agrivoltaics – The Next Frontier in Agriculture." in "Roadmap on established and emerging photovoltaics for sustainable energy conversion" (eds. Blakesley, J. C. & Hoye, R. L. Z.) (IOP Publishing, 2024). doi:10.1088/2515-7655/ad7404;
- Winchester, B., Safra, Y., Sharma, B. & Nelson, J. "Polytunnel-PV." 2024. [Computer software]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14712296.
Open-source software for sustainable development:
- Winchester B., Huang G., Nelson J., and Markides C. N., “HEATPanel” 13 Sep. 2022. [Computer software]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7097075;
- Winchester B., Beath H., Nelson J., and Sandwell P., “CLOVER v5.3” 2025. [Computer software]. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6925535;
- Winchester, B., Nelson, J., & Markides, C. N. (2023). HEATDesalination (Version v1.0.0a3) [Computer software]. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7612966
- Sandwell, P., Winchester, B., Beath, B. and Nelson, J., “CLOVER: A modelling framework for sustainable community-scale energy systems,” The Journal of Open-source Software (JOSS) [Published]. [Online] Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.04799;
Mini-grid systems
Beath H., Mittal S., Few S., Winchester, B., Sandwell, P., Markides, C.N., Nelson J., and Gambhir A., “Pathways to SDG7 in sub-Saharan Africa: understanding the investment and emissions benefits from off-grid electrification strategies;” Nature Communications [Under review]. [Online] Available at:
Miscellaneous:
- Winchester, B., Maghrabi, A. M. & Markides, C. N., "RS-DFID Africa capacity-building initiative programme grant: harnessing unsteady phase-change heat exchange in high-performance concentrated solar power systems." Interface Focus 14, 20230059 (2024). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0059
- Winchester, B., Huang, G., Beath, H., Sandwell, P., Cen, J., Nelson, J., and Markides, C.N., "Lifetime optimisation of integrated thermally and electrically driven solar desalination plants." Npj Clean Water 7, 1–15 (2024). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41545-024-00335-4
Agrivoltaics
- Jimoh, A., Beath, H., Markides, C.N. & Winchester, B. (2025) Enhancing solar mini-grid utilisation in farming communities: crop strategies to reduce costs and improve energy access. Environmental research letters. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/addbf2.
- Gasparini, N., Beath, H., Durrant, J.R., Nelson, J., Ortega-Arriaga, P., Ryan, J.W., and Winchester, B., "10. Agrivoltaics – The Next Frontier in Agriculture." in "Roadmap on established and emerging photovoltaics for sustainable energy conversion" (eds. Blakesley, J. C. & Hoye, R. L. Z.) (IOP Publishing, 2024). doi:10.1088/2515-7655/ad7404;
- Winchester, B., Safra, Y., Sharma, B. & Nelson, J. "Polytunnel-PV." 2024. [Computer software]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14712296.
Open-source software for sustainable development:
- Winchester B., Huang G., Nelson J., and Markides C. N., “HEATPanel” 13 Sep. 2022. [Computer software]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7097075;
- Winchester B., Beath H., Nelson J., and Sandwell P., “CLOVER v5.3” 2025. [Computer software]. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6925535;
- Winchester, B., Nelson, J., & Markides, C. N. (2023). HEATDesalination (Version v1.0.0a3) [Computer software]. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7612966
- Sandwell, P., Winchester, B., Beath, B. and Nelson, J., “CLOVER: A modelling framework for sustainable community-scale energy systems,” The Journal of Open-source Software (JOSS) [Published]. [Online] Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.04799;
Mini-grid systems
Beath H., Mittal S., Few S., Winchester, B., Sandwell, P., Markides, C.N., Nelson J., and Gambhir A., “Pathways to SDG7 in sub-Saharan Africa: understanding the investment and emissions benefits from off-grid electrification strategies;” Nature Communications [Under review]. [Online] Available at:
Miscellaneous:
- Winchester, B., Maghrabi, A. M. & Markides, C. N., "RS-DFID Africa capacity-building initiative programme grant: harnessing unsteady phase-change heat exchange in high-performance concentrated solar power systems." Interface Focus 14, 20230059 (2024). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0059