Dr Richard Dawson

Honorary Researcher

Profile

Richard began his academic life at Girton College Cambridge where he studied Engineering specialising in Mechanical Engineering. After a brief spell as an engineering consultant he continued his academic studies at Imperial College Chemical Engineering Department. Here he investigated the electrochemical recovery of platinum and palladium from spent catalyst as part of a CASE award project sponsored by Johnson Matthey. Following his PhD he spent around 6 years working for fuel cell start- ups in the south east of the UK before moving up to Lancaster to help begin the Chemical Engineering degree and continue academic research into electrochemical energy conversion devices and aligned processes. In 2017 with a group of previous colleagues he helped found LiNa Energy, the Lancaster University sodium metal chloride battery company where he has been full-time CTO since 2021. He continues to collaborates extensively with the school of Engineering and Department of Chemistry

In-situ quality inspection of catalyst variations on fuel cell membranes
01/03/2020 → 30/07/2021
Research

H2H Project - Phase 1
18/03/2019 → 08/09/2019
Research

MSI Nano Sun (KTP)
01/02/2019 → 06/07/2021
Research

MSI: LiNa Energy Cell Manufacturing
01/11/2018 → 31/10/2019
Research

MSI: IRSIP materials for energy devices
01/10/2018 → 31/03/2019
Research

Optimisation of Plasma Torches
01/07/2018 → 31/03/2019
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LiNa: Novel Sodium Ion Battery Startup Based on IP Generated at Lancaster University COCODE
01/06/2018 → 31/10/2019
Research

iCASE studentship 2017
01/10/2017 → …
Research

IAA: MSP Technologies Limited
30/05/2016 → 30/04/2017
Research

Novel diagnostic techniques for realtime monitoring and control of SOFC stacks
01/03/2015 → 30/11/2018
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KTP with Ceres Power Ltd
05/01/2015 → 04/01/2018
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Application of novel electrodes structures developed for SOFC technologies into AFC systems
01/05/2014 → 31/05/2015
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Recovery of metal value from end of life PEMFC
22/10/2013 → 21/01/2015
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FST CASE Studentship: AFC Energy
01/01/2013 → 31/12/2016
Research

Optimising the performance of particulate adsorbents
01/10/2012 → 30/09/2015
Research

Centre for Global Eco-innovation , Manufacturing

  • Centre for Global Eco-innovation
  • Energy Lancaster