EPSRC Council member
Professor Nigel Brandon is a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Council.
Nigel is an electrochemical engineer who has spent his career working on electrochemical technologies for the low carbon energy transition, in particular:
- fuel cells
- electrolysers
- flow batteries
After a 14-year research career with BP and Rolls-Royce, he joined Imperial College London in 1998.
At Imperial he holds the Chair in Sustainable Development in Energy and has been Dean of the Faculty of Engineering since 2017.
He has a strong interest in innovation, and translation of research into impact.
He has co-founded three spin-out companies from his research at Imperial, the first of which is now FTSE listed.
He was the EPSRC Energy Senior Research Fellow from 2006 to 2014 and led the EPSRC Supergen investment in hydrogen and fuel cells from 2012 to 2022.
He was the UK Focal Point with China in energy and climate change from 2006 to 2011, for which he was awarded an OBE.
Nigel is a Fellow of the:
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- the Royal Society
- the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- the Energy Institute
He was appointed an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
He has received a number of awards, including:
- Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal (2007)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers Francis Bacon Medal (2014)
- Society of Chemical Industry Castner Medal (2024)
Last updated: 1 April 2026