Meet the team

Meet the team

Richard Templer

Professor Richard Templer FRSC

Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute
 
Richard leads the Grantham Institute’s innovation activities. He has led the founding of our centre for climate change innovation, a partnership with the Royal Institution of Great Britain and founding members, ARUP, the Mayor of London, HSBC UK, Octopus Centre for Net Zero, Pollination and Slaughter and May. In his work as a member of the London Sustainable Development Commission he has advised and supported the GLA in the development of London as a global hub for cleantech innovation.
Naveed Chaudhry

Naveed Chaudhry

Co-Founder & Head of The Greenhouse at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation
 
Naveed runs The Greenhouse and Climate Launchpad at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation. He manages a range of climate-positive companies in sectors such as agtech, energy, mobility, AI, eco-materials, and many others.
Ajay Kathrani

Ajay Kathrani

Partnership Lead at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation 
Email: a.kathrani@imperial.ac.uk

Ajay leads on brokering new opportunities for collaborative innovation with stakeholders and clients across London's cleantech community.  

Sarah Achaichia

Sarah Achaichia

Project Officer at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation 
Email: s.achaichia@imperial.ac.uk 

Sarah supports the delivery of interventions to enable better coordination and collaboration amongst London’s cleantech stakeholders and experts.

Rosa Salazar Benazar

Rosa Salazar Benazar

Communications Coordinator at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation
Email: r.salazar-benazar@imperial.ac.uk

Rosa supports the publicity, multi-channel communication activities and event management for the Centre for Climate Change Innovation.

Guillermo Montero Rodriguez

Guillermo Montero Rodriguez

Project Manager at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation
Email: guillermo.montero-rodriguez18@imperial.ac.uk

Guillermo leads all project management activities for the Centre for Climate Change Innovation (CCCI). He is responsible for the relation and activities with the Greater London Authority and European Funding bodies for the CCCI. And financially manages all programmes and projects in the centre.

 

Sophie Van Eetvelt smiling

Sophie Van Eetvelt

Programme Manager of The Greenhouse at the Centre for Climate Change Innovation
Email: s.vaneetvelt@imperial.ac.uk

Sophie will be managing the activities of The Greenhouse, working to coordinate with the rest of the CCCI and to ensure that the startup companies receive all the support they need via workshops, mentorship, networking and more.

Headshot Ed

Edward Quigley

Project Manager (Internships)
Email: e.quigley@imperial.ac.uk

Edward manages the Centre for Climate Change Innovation (CCCI) Internship programme, which funds the paid placement of some of the best students from Imperial and other institutions in SMEs and start-ups active within the climate, clean-tech and carbon sectors or with a specific project or area of activity in these areas.

Meet some of the startups we have worked with...

Notpla team members

Notpla

Pioneers in packaging solutions, Notpla develops flexible, edible and biodegradable packaging using a material made from seaweed and plants that disappears, naturally.
Enass Abo-Hamed

H2GO Power

A clean tech company that develops and delivers hydrogen energy storage technology for zero-emission, safe and reliable power supply, with a range of commerical applications.
Inty Gronneberg

Ichthion

Developing cutting-edge technologies to tackle ocean plastic pollution by sucking plastic from rivers, coastal areas and the ocean before it can enter the marine ecosystem.
A man and a woman in a lab looking at the contents of a test tube

Econic Technologies

Uses novel catalyst technologies to create new value from waste carbon dioxide, so that it has a positive economic and environmental potential.

Four men and a woman standing in a lab posing for a photo

Arborea

Developed the BioSolar Leaf, which harnesses natural photosynthesis to grow microscopic plants and produce healthy food ingredients, all while generating oxygen and sequestrating large amounts of carbon dioxide.
Christophe Williams and Nicholas Simmons - naked energy

Naked Energy

An engineering business offering highly efficient, high energy density solutions by combining solar heat and power in a single product.
Professor Chris Cheeseman, Elena Dieckmann and Ryan Robinson

Aeropowder

An award-winning startup creating novel materials from waste feathers, including the world's first thermal packaging material made from surplus feathers.
Henrik Hagemann in a lab

Puraffinity

Tackling water pollution using novel membrane technology that can filter hazardous micro pollutants from water.
Beakers made out of shellworks materials

The Shellworks

A sustainable packaging turning waste crustacean shells into biodegradable, compostable products, which can be used as an alternative to plastic.

A Q-bot robot

Q-Bot

Making homes warmer and healthier using an autonomous robot that can insulate homes with minimal disruption to people's lives.

Two members of the technical team from RFC Power in their lab at the Incubator.

RFC Power

Developing long-duration energy storage, by combining the benefits of a flow battery with the best elements of fuel cell technology to efficiently convert electrical energy to chemical energy and back again.
3 members of the hydroCotton team

hydroCotton

Redefining the way cotton is produced and helping fashion brands reduce their environmental impact by growing radically sustainable cotton alongside building more transparency into the supply chain, creating accountability end-to-end.