Independent Advisory Board Members

Agnes Marie Horn currently holds a position as Senior  principal Specialist in DNV Structural Integrity Advisory section, Norway.  She has more than 25 years of experience within Offshore and Energy related topics where main fields are structural integrity, fatigue and fracture and experimental testing.  Recently she has been involved different topics related to the effect of hydrogen on materials performance. She has been chairing the 2009 and 2012 ISSC working group “Fatigue and Fracture” and Subsea Technology committee ISSC2022 and currently chairing the Materials and Fabrication committee 2025. She is part of the technical material program of the OMAE conference. Her main interest and skills are within fatigue and fracture related topics, environmental impact of materials, hydrogen transportation including re-purposing  and technology qualification

Jan is a Chartered Engineer with 26 years of experience in maritime engineering and associated supply chains. At Lloyd’s Register Foundation he has responsibility for the strategic areas of Safer Maritime Systems and Safer Sustainable Infrastructures. He serves on the boards of Discovering Safety, Centre for Assuring Autonomy, Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub and Engineering X - Safer Complex Systems programmes; is an owner’s representative on the board of Safetytech Accelerator, and a member of the advisory boards of NERC’s Future Maritime Research Infrastructure programme and EPSRC’s  Trusted Autonomous Systems programme.

Thomas Beard is the Clean Shipping Lead at BMT, with a focus on alternative energy sources/fuel. He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and has a doctorate in Hydrogen Safety.

As well as supporting Ocean REFuel, he is the co-chair of the National Maritime Future Fuels group, a member of the Mari UK Hydrogen group and is a member of the MariNH3 steering group.

Corinna Jones currently holds the position of Head of Innovation for National Gas Transmission PLC (NGT); leading the development of technologies to enable us to reach the Net Zero targets for 2050 and ensure the best value to the UK Gas Consumers. The NGT Innovation team is focussed on energy transition projects with a focus on Hydrogen opportunities for the National Transmission System (NTS) and its link to UK & Global energy systems.  Corinna is a mechanical engineer with over 10 years of experience within the advanced engineering research & development sector. Through her career she has developed technologies from early concept through to deployment and is excited to be a part of the journey to Net Zero with NGT.

Michael has worked across a number of industries including  Transportation, Construction and Energy. He is currently  the global Director of HSQE for RES (Renewable Energy) who  provide a full lifecycle approach to  Development, Construction, Services and Digital Solutions for Wind, Solar, Storage, BioMass and Hydro. He has been  a Board member for over twenty years where ehe has used his academic and Operational experience to guide improve efficiency. He holds a first degree in Environmental engineering, an MBA and a PhD.

Group Occupational Hygienist for ScottishPower, covering all business streams which include Networks, Renewables and the Customer Business (Retail). I have worked for SP for 17 years, initially employed to work in Generation.

The range of work across the different businesses varies but covers literally all aspects of occupational hygiene from educating staff about skin sensitisers, thermal environment, fatigue, MSD, traditional hazards of noise and vibration, engineering controls & PPE etc etc!

The move into new technology, including battery storage & hydrogen is exciting but the biggest challenge is ensuring a hygiene input at the early contract stage and also the HAZID stage to ensure the design and future maintenance programs do not put the worker at risk.

Zofia Lukszo is a full professor Smart Energy Systems at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her research concentrates on a wide range of problems in the way complex energy systems are functioning and can be (re-)shaped for the sustainable future. One of the research lines concerns investigating how to accelerate the emergence of large-scale hydrogen production, transport and storage from renewable power sources to large-scale adoption in different sectors and by a variety of end-users.

She is a Supervisory Board member of the Green Village – a living lab connected to the TU Delft. As a chair of the DEWIS network of female scientists she actively contribute to creating inclusive working environment for everyone and empowerment of women.