Profile
Dr Jethro AKROYD
Senior Research Fellow
Jethro is a research-focused chartered chemical engineer who works at the interface of academia and industry, with experience cutting across multinationals, start-ups and universities. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and holds positions at CMCL, a multi-award-winning SME, and as a Senior Research Associate in the Computational Modelling Group at the University of Cambridge.
Jethro has worked extensively with members of the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) to develop solutions to enable the cross-domain interoperability of data and models, with a focus on applications relating to sustainability and the energy transition.
He recently led work by CMCL to implement the first cross-sector digital twin of energy, water and telecoms infrastructure networks as part of the Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo), which is a climate change adaptation digital twin to improve resilience across infrastructure networks. The project has recently been awarded innovation funding to develop CReDo as a product to serve the energy industry in the UK.
Jethro previously worked as a Senior Process Engineer in the Research and Development divisions of AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow on the C4T programme and a Scientific Programme Coordinator on the HD4 programme.
Research Profiles
Cambridge
Researchers
C4T extended projects
Research Interest
- Computational Modelling
- Software Development
- Artificial Intelligence
- Knowledge Graphs
- Energy Transition
Key Publications
Savage, Thomas, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, Michael Hillman, Franziska Sielker, and Markus Kraft. 2022. ‘Universal Digital Twin – the Impact of Heat Pumps on Social Inequality’. Advances in Applied Energy 5 (February): 100079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adapen.2021.100079.
Akroyd, Jethro, Zachary Harper, David Soutar, Feroz Farazi, Amit Bhave, Sebastian Mosbach, and Markus Kraft. 2022. ‘Universal Digital Twin: Land Use’. Data-Centric Engineering 3 (February): e3. https://doi.org/10.1017/dce.2021.21.
Bai, Jiaru, Liwei Cao, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, Alexei A. Lapkin, and Markus Kraft. 2022. ‘From Platform to Knowledge Graph: Evolution of Laboratory Automation’. JACS Au 2 (2): 292–309. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.1c00438.
Akroyd, Jethro, Sebastian Mosbach, Amit Bhave, and Markus Kraft. 2021. ‘Universal Digital Twin - A Dynamic Knowledge Graph’. Data-Centric Engineering 2 (September): e14. https://doi.org/10.1017/dce.2021.10.
Atherton, John, Wanni Xie, Leonardus Kevin Aditya, Xiaochi Zhou, Gourab Karmakar, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, Mei Qi Lim, and Markus Kraft. 2021. ‘How Does a Carbon Tax Affect Britain’s Power Generation Composition?’ Applied Energy 298 (September): 117117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117117.
Eibeck, Andreas, Daniel Nurkowski, Angiras Menon, Jiaru Bai, Jinkui Wu, Li Zhou, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft. 2021. ‘Predicting Power Conversion Efficiency of Organic Photovoltaics: Models and Data Analysis’. ACS Omega 6 (37): 23764–75. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c02156.
Zhou, Xiaochi, Daniel Nurkowski, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft. 2021. ‘Question Answering System for Chemistry’. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 61 (8): 3868–80. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00275.
Mosbach, Sebastian, Angiras Menon, Feroz Farazi, Nenad Krdzavac, Xiaochi Zhou, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft. 2020. ‘Multiscale Cross-Domain Thermochemical Knowledge-Graph’. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 60 (12): 6155–66. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01145.