Professor Taylor, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at University of Bristol, is an internationally leading researcher and industrial expert in energy systems, who has worked in industry and academia for over 25 years.
He joined Newcastle University in 2013 as Dean and Director of the multidisciplinary Institute for Sustainability, and later, became the Head of the School of Engineering. Professor Taylor is Co-Director of the £20m EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) and the Director of the £10m EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for fuel poverty charity National Energy Action, Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and non-executive director of Northern Powergrid, UK.