Adam Hawkes is the Director of the Sustainable Gas Institute and Professor of Energy Systems in the Dept of Chemical Engineering. He is Editor-in-Chief of the new open-access Elsevier journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition. His research team focuses on methodologies and applications for quantitative assessment of energy systems. Building from engineering fundamentals, he analyses the technical, economic, security, and environmental aspects of energy system transitions, and then applies these to provide evidence to both engineering and energy/climate policy debates. He is an expert in analytical assessment of individual technologies and systems of technology and infrastructure. His areas of research specialism are: Quantitative assessment of sustainable energy transitions via energy systems modelling (optimisation, simulation, forecasting) The role of natural gas, hydrogen, and low carbon gases in present and future energy systems. Methane emissions in energy supply chains, from detection and measurement through to mitigation strategies. Engineering-economic analysis of heat sector decarbonisation; modelling, technologies, infrastructures, interfaces, pathways Investment in and operation of micro-grids and smart grids under uncertainty (stochastic programming and game theory) Decentralised energy resources, demand side management, and smart energy networks Microgeneration His background includes energy and climate change consultancy, energy trading, government policy impact assessment, and ICT development. Adam is an author of more than 200 scientific contributions, including a number of high impact White Papers.