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The Energy Catalyst – accelerating innovation to commercialisation

Michael Priestnall, Lead Technologist Energy, Innovate UK

Energy Catalyst Round 4 is investing £19m in grants to disruptive UK energy innovators. Michael Priestnall will give a brief talk on energy innovation grant funding available from Innovate UK.

Michael Priestnall is a Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK, which deploys an annual budget of around £0.5bn to support UK industrial technology innovation. Michael is an energy & materials chemist and has co-founded three technology companies in fuel cells, photovoltaics and carbon capture. Previously, Michael led Energy Consulting at Sagentia in Cambridge, and development of advanced ceramics for fuel cells and superconductors for the Cookson Group in Oxford. Michael held an EPSRC Energy research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and was a British Gas Research Scholar in ceramic fuel cells at Imperial College London.

 

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