Professor Geoff Hammond

Professor Geoff Hammond, WWT

Geoffrey Hammond is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy & the Environment (I•SEE) at the University of Bath and is a mechanical engineer with a multidisciplinary background, including environmental engineering and management.

During the 1960s and early 1970s he worked as a design and development engineer in the UK refrigeration industry, before commencing an academic career at Uganda Technical College (under the auspices of Voluntary Services Overseas) teaching mainly in the field of applied thermodynamics. He held various academic appointments within the Applied Energy Group at Cranfield University (1976-1989) before moving to the University of Bath, where he took up a new Professorship partially supported by British Gas plc.

Geoffrey Hammond's own research interests concern the technology assessment of sustainable energy systems, using a toolkit of methods derived from the engineering and environmental sciences. He is the Co-Leader and Principal Investigator of the first e.on UK (the electricity generator)/EPSRC Strategic Partnership consortium on 'Transition Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy’.

He is the author or co-author of many research papers, and was the joint recipient of the Dufton silver medal for one of these publications. Professor Hammond has given keynote and invited lectures on both sides of the Atlantic and sits on the editorial boards of several archival journals that publish material in the area of energy and the environment. In recent years he has advised the UK Government’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Office of Science and Innovation on issues concerned with energy and the environment – environmental footprinting, sustainable production and consumption, and industrial energy efficiency.

Outside the University Professor Hammond is a Patron and was a Founder Trustee (1995-1998) of the Bath Environment Centre Limited. He became a member of the Environment Agency's North Wessex Area Environment Group in 1998, which advises the Agency on the range of its regulatory activities. Subsequently he became Vice Chairman (2000) and Chairman (2004) until such groups were disbanded by the Agency in 2006. He was also the independent Chairman (2000-2002) of the Combe Down Stone Mines Community Association, which has the task of building a partnership with the Bath & North East Somerset Council aimed at stabilising hazardous 18th and 19th Century mine workings on the outskirts of UNESCO World Heritage City of Bath.

In late 2004 he was co-opted as a Trustee and Council member of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, with a remit particularly to support their activities in the areas of climate change and sustainable energy. Professor Hammond was appointed to Chair the Steering Group developing the Swindon Climate Change Action Plan and as a member of the Swindon Strategic Partnership (as its environmental representative) in 2005. In addition, he has been involved with several other partnership bodies in the West of England sub-region concerned with environmental sustainability and transport planning.

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