Thomas Hills has expertise in carbon management technologies and decarbonizing cement production. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London focused on carbon capture in the cement industry. Currently, he works as a research associate at Imperial College on a project to evaluate carbon capture technology feasibility and manufacture low-carbon cement. He also provides technical advice to the UK government on developing policies and pathways for decarbonizing cement manufacturing.
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1. Thomas Hills
British Citizen Full, clean UK driving licence
More information available at uk.linkedin.com/in/thomashills/
Languages: English: Native speaker. French: B-Grade at A-level (B2)
References are available on request.
PROFILE
A PhD with expertise in carbon management technologies, knowledge of the cement &
construction industries, statistics, mathematical modelling and material science.
Has successfully leveraged these skills to deliver climate and energy policy appraisal,
techno-economic and technology maturity benchmarking to a range of clients.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Associate, Cement Sector Decarbonisation LEILAC project
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Design, construction and commissioning of a laboratory reactor for
evaluating carbon capture technology feasibility
Manufacture and technical assessment of cement clinker from the
capture process
2016-
present
Technical advisor, Cement Decarbonisation Policy development
Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, UK
Invited to act as a third-party expert in the development of
decarbonisation pathways for the cement industry
Advised civil servants, consultants and industry actors on the suitability
of technologies to decarbonise cement manufacture
Provided critical feedback on the consultants work
Invited to continue in the same role for the second phase of the project
2014
present
Research Associate, Industrial Energy Policy
Grantham Institute Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College
London
Development and coordination of an international grant proposal
Process modelling and exergy analysis of several industries
Economic assessment of various process integration options
2013
Consultant, Halving Global CO2 by 2050: Technologies and Costs
Delivered by the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment for
AREVA
Techno-economic assessment of thermal electricity generation methods
Worldwide electricity generation market scenario development
20122013
Research Technician
National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), Workington (12 weeks)
2010
EDUCATION
2. Thomas Hills
PhD student: Carbon Capture in the Cement Industry
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Activities:
o Statistical analysis
o Techno-economic assessment
o Mathematical modelling (MATLAB, SPSS)
o Cement synthesis and technical analysis
Funding: Industrial (CEMEX) and academic (Grantham Institute)
Output: Two papers published; three in the pipeline
2011 2016
Masters of Engineering in Chemical & Nuclear Engineering (1st Class Honours)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
20072011
COMMUNICATION & ORGANISATION EXPERIENCE
Coordination and training of volunteers for a humanitarian mapping
project in Epworth, Zimbabwe
2015
present
4 positions (including President) in Engineers without Borders Imperial 20092013
Member of the Imperial College Student Union Council 20112012
Treasurer of a project in Tanzania to build rainwater harvesting systems 2009
PRESENTATION EXPERIENCE
Presented as part of International Energy Agency delegation to Chinese
Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing
2013
Elevator pitches in Climate-KIC entrepreneurship summer school (Finalist)
2011
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Researcher, Decarbonisation of industrial heat production & use: Applied the
principles of systematic reviews and Rapid Evidence Assessments to
categorisation of data and gap analysis
2013
Tutor for the EWB Challenge course at Imperial College: Guided and marked
first year undergraduate engineering students through the principles and
application of engineering design in an international development context.
20122014
Finalist in the Climate-KIC Innovation & Climate Change Summer School:
Development of a business model for verified carbon credit generation.
Presented of an elevator pitch and won a 贈10k grant to develop the idea.
2011
OTHER INTERESTS
Heavily involved in Missing Maps, a humanitarian mapping project run by M辿decins sans
Fronti竪res and the Red Cross. This includes training new volunteers and developing new work
flows and tools for inputting data sent from developing countries.