
Jody Roy is the UKCCSRC Research and Events Support Officer. She brings 13 years of experience from Apple where she specialised in Accessibility, Event planning, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Jody is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). She supports the team with conferences, events and providing operational and administrative support.

Mel Green is the UKCCSRC Communications and Events Manager, responsible for activities including but not limited to the website, newsletters, social media and events. She is also currently operating as the Centre’s network manager. She joined the UKCCSRC, and the University of Sheffield, in May 2022, having previously worked in a similar role at the University of Leeds. She has a Masters in Public Relations and is an Accredited Member of the Chartered Institute for Public Relations (CIPR).

Helen is one of our Research Support Officers, having joined the University in October 2021. Helen has worked in a variety of finance and administrative roles in local government, public sector and banking. She’s currently studying part-time towards a Combined STEM degree focusing on environmental and health science and is looking forward to developing her knowledge of carbon capture and storage. Helen helps the team with conferences and events, along with providing finance and administrative support at the Centre

Jon Gibbins is the Director of the UKCCSRC. He has worked on energy engineering, fuel conversion and CCS for 45 years, initially in industry and then as a university academic, latterly leading national academic research initiatives. With over 80 papers and more than 100 articles and reports on CCS and related topics, he is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the IMechE, a Fellow of the Institute of Energy and Professor of CCS at the University of Sheffield. Since 2005 Jon has played a leading role in UK CCS academic capacity building, growing the UK CCS Research Centre as an inclusive and open virtual national hub and helping to start now-mainstream UK initiatives on industrial decarbonisation (2012) and CCS clusters (2016). His research activities centre around engagement with industry and policymakers on practical aspects of CCS deployment, with an emphasis on policy and economic requirements plus detailed practical analysis of matching capture plant designs to market conditions.

