Iain Staffell is a multi-disciplinary scientist holding degrees in Physics, Chemical Engineering and Economics. He is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy at the Centre for Environmental Policy with fifteen years’ experience in energy R&D.

Iain is co-developer of the Renewables.ninja, Demand.ninja, and EnergyStorage.ninja web platforms, which let you simulate the hourly power output from wind and solar power plants, energy demand from buildings, and economics of energy storage technologies. Iain also leads the Electric Insights project, an interactive website and quarterly report on the supply, demand, price and environmental impacts of Britain's electricity. He is one of the founders of Power Swarm, a network of 400 academics, industry and government experts working on power system transformation

As energy, renewables and carbon are never far from the public eye, Iain's research and commentary have appeared in the BBC, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Der Spiegel, The FT, Forbes, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, CNN, The Sun, Huffington Post, The Conversation, Bloomberg, Vice, Die Zeit and Esquire. I cannot show you links to these articles any more because Imperial has downgraded the software it uses for personal web pages 🙄