Engineering

Roger Kemp is a professorial fellow (working 25% FTE for the University). He runs the postgraduate programme in Safety Engineering. He is particularly concerned with energy use in transport and contributed to the Department for Transport white paper on sustainable transport. His research interests include the safety regulation of the nuclear industry as well as energy use and safety regulation of transport systems.

He is on the Engineering Policy Committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the IET's Energy Policy Panel. He has provided advice for government departments and has been an invited speaker at many conferences on energy use and is an Associate of the Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group (EPRG). Recently he has been involved in a review for the Chief Scientific Advisor on the use made of science and engineering in government; he chairs a Royal Academy of Engineering committee investigating the impact of the widespread adoption of electric vehicles, has undertaken research for the Energy Technologies Institute on carbon reduction through modal shift and has undertaken a number of investigations for the rail industry. And he was a member of the judging panel, chaired by James Caan, of the Iawards innovation prizes.

Before joining the University in 2004, Roger was UK technical and safety director for Alstom Transport. He has worked extensively overseas on metro and high-speed rail projects and spent several years in Paris as project director of the consortium that designed and built the Eurostar trains.