Dr Jim Halliday is the Head of the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Applied Science Division based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. He had previously been the Head of STFC’s Energy Research Unit, and has been active in energy research for over 45 years, and has extensive experience of initiating, managing and working on a wide range of collaborative and applied renewable energy research projects (funded by the UK Government, EU, InnovateUK, Carbon Trust, and the UK Research Councils). He has published over 70 papers.
Jim is a Chartered Engineer, a graduate in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia (UEA), and has a doctorate in Applied Physics from the University of Strathclyde – his thesis title being ‘Wind Meteorology and the Integration of Electricity Generated by Wind Turbines’. He was an active member of the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) (now known as “RenewableUK”) for many years, and served on its Council for 14 years, including two terms as Chairman.
Jim was one of the founding Co-Directors of UKERC and oversees UKERC’s Energy Data Centre.