Dr Amir Jahanbakhsh is a Research Fellow in geological energy and carbon storage and a Programme manager at the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) at Heriot-Watt University. He holds a PhD in reservoir engineering from Heriot-Watt University with up to 10 years of industry work experience in the application of subsurface resources for energy purposes before his PhD. Carbon capture and storage, geo-energy and hydrogen economy are his main areas of research. Since he joined RCCS he has been involved in managing large multinational multidisciplinary consortium projects across the CCUS value chain including MILEPOST-Microscale Processes Governing Global Sustainability (ERC), Low carbon jet fuel through the integration of novel technologies for co-valorisation of CO₂ and biomass (EPSRC) and Novel adsorbents applied to integrated energy-efficient industrial CO₂ capture (EPSRC), PrISMa – Process-Informed design of tailor-made Sorbent Materials for energy-efficient carbon capture (ERA-ACT2) and more recently USorb-DAC – Unlocking the scalable potential of sorbent-based DAC technologies (RMI).

Energy strorage, e.g., hydrogen storage; New materials for CO₂ capture  and storage/separation processes;  Carbon capture and storage; Geological CO₂ storage; Carbon mineralisation, baslts; CO₂ transportation for CCS (impurities in CO₂ gas streams and their effects on the whole carbon capture and storage (CCS) chain), Techno-economis analysis and Life-cycle assessment (TEA & LCA).

Energy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Subsurface Resources, GeoEnergy, Energy Storage, LCA, TEA.

Research Fellow, Programme Manager, PhD & Postgraduate Supervisor,