Gregory Offer

Gregory Offer is Professor in Electrochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London and leads the Electrochemical Science & Engineering Group in Mechanical Engineering. Since starting his group in 2010 he has worked with multiple industry partners on projects worth over £45.2 million. Greg has also worked as a management consultant and a government advisor. 

Professor Offer’s research is at the interface between the science and engineering of electrochemical devices. Having trained as an electrochemist before moving to engineering, his research portfolio focuses on understanding the limits of operation, degradation mechanisms and failure modes of batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells in real world applications, and the impacts and consequences on system design, integration and control. He has published multiple peer reviewed journal papers, patents, technical reports and books. Greg is a prolific entrepreneur and his research group has led to multiple spin-outs, Galvanic Energy Ltd*, Cognition Energy Ltd*, Breathe Battery Technologies Ltd*, About:Energy Ltd and Ionetiq Ltd (* personally involved). He is also the co-founder of one of the premier automotive conferences in the UK, the Future Propulsion Conference series.