Niall Mac Dowell

Visiting Scholar

2024-2025

Niall Mac Dowell is a professor of energy systems engineering at Imperial College London. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of both the IChemE and the Royal Society of Chemistry. His research is focused on understanding the transition to a low-carbon economy, and he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, technical reports, and books in this context.

Mac Dowell has more than a decade’s experience as a consultant to the public and private sectors. He has worked with a range of private sector organizations spanning the energy industry and financial sector and recently completed a two-year secondment to the UK Government Department BEIS (now DESNZ), where he acted as an expert policy advisor on CCUS and GGR.

Mac Dowell has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of TotalEnergies, the Norwegian CCS Research Centre (NCCS), and Joule. He was a member of the US National Petroleum Council (NPC) CCUS Roadmap Team, as well as the technical working group of the Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP), the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA), and acts as a science advisor to a number of venture capital, private equity funds, and global banks.

A multi-award-winning scientist, Mac Dowell was awarded the Qatar Petroleum medal for his research in 2010 and the IChemE’s Nicklin and Junior Moulton medals for his work on low carbon energy in 2015 and 2021, respectively.