Jennifer Hawkin
University of Sheffield| University of Sheffield | |
| Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
| Member ID | 2906 |
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| Member since | Jun 20, 2021 |
| Status | Active |
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Jenny is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield, where she studies resource efficiency and environmental impacts related to petrochemical consumption, energy infrastructure and bulk material production and use.Details
During her PhD at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Julian Allwood, she developed a computational model to aggregate the resource demands implied by sectoral net-zero plans. By aggregating the global demand for emissions-free electricity, biomass and carbon storage, her research showed that many proposed decarbonisation pathways would rely on implausible deployment rates, unless demand were reduced through participatory innovations.
Prior to academia, Jennifer worked as a chartered mechanical engineer at Rolls-Royce across the aviation, marine, and nuclear sectors, and spent a year volunteering for Engineers Without Borders UK in Malaysian Borneo. She holds an MEng and BA in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
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| 02 Mar 2026 | From Decommissioning to Design: Circular Economy for Energy Systems. (SETAC Europe Bruges 19-21 October 2026) |
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