Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Policy

Onesmus Mwabonje

Imperial College, London

Dr Onesmus Mwabonje is a Research Fellow at Imperial College London’s Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP). He has combined academic and industrial experience in the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to supply chains for biofuels, bioenergy and biorefineries to both UK and EU policy requirements. He is currently working as a technical lead on BEIS funded 2050 International Calculator program, as part of the technical delivery team that supports BEIS in the development of five new country calculators, whilst helping improve other ten existing ones. He previously worked on the EU Calculator project funded by the EU Horizon 2020, with an overall aim of developing pathways towards the decarbonisation and resilience of the European economy in the time-frame 2030-2050 and beyond. He is also a Co-Investigator of the BESTER project, an ERA CoBioTech initiative funded by BBSRC. He also managed the Bio-SuccInnovate project sponsored by Climate KIC. At Imperial, he leads the Life Cycle Network and the Energy and Climate Research Theme at CEP. He is an experienced LCA practitioner, expert in assessing feedstocks for biomass and biofuels energy technology options.