Biography

Professor Colin Garner FREng, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Applied Thermodynamics at Loughborough University. He has held over 40 major government and industrial grants for advanced research covering power and energy systems, fuels, fluid flow, heat transfer, combustion and emissions control. This research has covered a variety of applications including battery electric and engine powertrains. His research has been featured in New Scientist and on BBC TV and radio. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and has six granted patents. His research has received several international prizes, including from the SAE and IMechE. 

He is directly engaged with major international engine and vehicle companies. Early in his career he gained significant experience working on bus and rail vehicle development at what is now called Transport for London. He has served as an academic adviser to the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) Heavy Duty Vehicle Strategy Action Group, as a member of the Automotive Council R&D Group and as the technical director of the Caterpillar Innovation and Research Centre at Loughborough University. 

He is a non-executive director of Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) UK Ltd www.apcuk.co.uk a government-industry partnership supporting over £1.4 Billion of vehicle propulsion research and development projects across the UK. 

From 2005 to 2017 he was the Editor-in-Chief of Proc. IMechE: Journal of Automobile Engineering and he continues to serve on the journal’s editorial board.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering www.raeng.org.uk.