Dr Martin Atkins

Senior Lecturer and Associate Director at the AHUORA Centre for Smart Energy Systems, New Zealand.

Dr Martin Atkins is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Process Engineering at the School of Engineering and an associate director of the Ahuora Centre for Smart Energy Systems based at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has expertise in energy systems engineering with a particular focus on developing and using Process Integration methodologies for optimising industrial energy systems and emissions reduction. He has collaborated in several large research programmes examining energy and emissions reduction potential and how energy systems analysis can be used to reduce energy consumption and increase the amount of renewable energy used. As a result of these programmes he has developed close linkages with large industrial energy users, particularly in the dairy, pulp and paper sectors. Martin has been on several government and industry expert panels providing advice with regards to energy efficiency, emissions reduction planning and energy systems development. Dr Martin Atkins in a member of the Quin Institute Scientific and Technical Expert Panel (STEP) supporting equitable climate action with the Global South.
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