Our dear colleague Malcolm McCulloch sadly passed away on Friday 12th June. Malcolm was Professor of Energy Systems in the Department of Engineering Science, where he led the Energy and Power research group, and Tutorial Fellow at Christ Church College.
Throughout his career, Malcolm’s groundbreaking research and teaching spanned multiple sustainable energy and energy systems themes, with an unwavering commitment towards academic rigour and a just transition to sustainable energy systems. Alongside leading major, international research programmes, he founded several spin-out companies and not-for-profit organisations.
Malcolm was a founder of the ZERO Institute. Thanks to his knowledge, determination and inventiveness, together with other Oxford colleagues, Malcolm catalysed thinking for the ZERO Institute concept as an interdisciplinary hub, and the home of zero-carbon energy research in Oxford. Alongside the ZERO Institute, he was the initiator of the TESA concept (The Energy Systems Accelerator), which created a shared space for zero-carbon energy research, teaching, policy and entrepreneurship in Oxford.
Malcolm was a cornerstone of the ZERO Institute and of the Oxford energy community, and we will greatly miss his deep thinking and contagious enthusiasm. We share our sincere condolences with Malcolm’s family, friends and colleagues.
Tributes to Malcolm have been published by Christ Church College and The Department of Engineering Science at the links below:
https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/remembering-malcolm-mcculloch
