Professor AbuBakr Bahaj FREng

Professor of Sustainable Energy, Head of Energy and Climate Change Division and Sustainable Energy Research Group, University of Southampton

Professor AbuBakr Bahaj is distinguished for his sustained creation of technical innovations in the engineering and applications of renewable energy systems and energy efficiency over the last three decades, in the UK and internationally. He has successfully applied the engineering of renewables to alleviate environmental concerns while supporting the development of people addressing systems spanning the watt to megawatt scales. This was recognised through engineering fellowships and by the Science Council voting him one of the UK’s top 100 practising scientists in the UK (2014). He was UK’s first city Chief Scientific Adviser for a local authority.