Featured academics
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Graham Hutchings
Hutchings, a Fellow of the Royal Society, discovered gold's remarkable catalytic power and built the Cardiff Catalysis Institute into a world centre for heterogeneous catalysis. His industrially partnered work on green routes to chemicals, from mercury free vinyl chloride production to in situ hydrogen peroxide synthesis, reshapes cleaner chemical manufacturing.
Rachel Ashworth
Ashworth led Cardiff Business School for six years as Dean, championing its public value mission, and researches accountability, equality and organisational change in public services. Her collaborative work with government and public bodies, including equality mainstreaming for the net zero transition, informs how public institutions become fairer and more accountable.
Agustin Valera-Medina
Valera-Medina is a world authority on ammonia as a zero carbon fuel, leading combustion research that enables gas turbines and engines to run on hydrogen carriers. Co-directing Cardiff's Net Zero Innovation Institute, he has partnered with more than thirty industrial projects translating thermofluids science into practical decarbonised power.