The Committee of Early Career Representatives work to tailor the activities of the Early Career Network.
Early Career Featured Profiles
To showcase emerging research and connect people working on similar challenges, we’re inviting early career colleagues to submit a summary of their work that can be shared across our channels. Find out more.
Early Career Forum - Registration Now Open
We’re pleased to open registration for the highlight of the Supergen ORE Hub calendar: the Early Career Forum and Annual Assembly.
Tuesday 21 April 2026
Early Career Forum: 09.30 - 17.30 (registration remains open until 11.30)
Evening networking reception: 18.30 - 20.00
Wednesday 22 April 2026
Annual Assembly: 09.00 - 17.00
More details
New LinkedIn Group
The Committee invite you to stay in touch via a new LinkedIn group. We'd like to use this platform as an informal space to connect and share innovative work — we'd love to have you there! Join here.
Feedback and Co-Leads Contact Details
We would like to encourage you to email us with any concerns or comments you would like us to bring up to the Supergen ORE Hub management board. Our emails are:
- Dr Emma Edwards: emma.edwards@eng.ox.ac.uk
- Dr Hannah Mullings: hannah.mullings@manchester.ac.uk
ECR Planning Forum meeting slides
An online planning forum was held on Tuesday 20 February 2024. The slides are available here.
Best wishes,
Emma and Hannah - Co Leads Early Career Committee
The Early Career Network Representatives
Dr Emma Edwards
University of Oxford
Dr Edwards completed her BSc in Mathematics at the University of North Carolina in 2012. She then worked as a Research Assistant for a year at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Energy Systems, where she was introduced to wave energy. Emma completed her PhD at MIT in 2020, and her thesis, supervised by Professor Dick Yue, was titled ‘Optimisation of the geometry of axisymmetric point absorber wave energy converters.’ She then held a part-time postdoctoral position at MIT with Professor Yue for a year. From 2021-2023, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, working with Professor Deborah Greaves and Dr Martyn Hann, expanding her expertise to floating offshore wind and physical modelling. In October 2023 she started as a Career Development Fellow in Engineering at St Peter's College, University of Oxford.
Emma has been part of the Supergen ORE community for the past 2 years, since moving to the UK. She has been actively involved in the ECR community, attending the ECR Forum and Annual Assembly as well as participating in outreach events such as the Green Man festival.
Dr Hannah Mullings
University of Manchester
Dr Mullings graduated with a First Class MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. Following this she went on to begin a PhD in Mechanical Engineering investigating the loads on a tidal stream turbine due to different unsteady operating conditions. In 2021, Dr Mullings was awarded a fellowship of the Higher Education Academy as well as a Chartered Engineer through the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. For the last four years, Dr Mullings has been supported as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and subsequently as a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, continuing research into offshore renewable energy.
Hannah has been a well connected part of the ECR Community for several years, participating in the Supergen ORE Hub ECR Forum and connecting with the wider community through a series of different roles and involvement in sector conferences.
Dr Tim Tang
University of Manchester
Tim Tang joined the University of Manchester in 2025 as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Fluids Simulation and Digital Twins. Previously, he worked as a Course Director of the Intelligent Earth CDT programme and also as an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. He graduated with a BEng from the University of Nottingham. He moved straight to a DPhil at Oxford, publishing 5 journal papers, including three JFMs. He won first place in the Osborne Reynolds Day competition for the UK's best DPhil student in fluid mechanics.
His current research focuses on extreme events in fluid mechanics with an emphasis on machine learning, including data-driven predictions on extreme waves and extreme structural loading, considering leading order physics such as nonlinear wave dynamics and instabilities, breaking waves, and long-short wave interaction. His recent research on Rogue Wave has been showcased in BBC Science Focus.
Dr Yabin Liu
Cambridge University
Yabin’s research focuses on applied fluid dynamics and innovative flow control technologies. Ultimately, he aims to enhance the efficiency, resilience, and cost-effectiveness of wind and tidal turbines.
Yabin completed his doctoral degree at Tsinghua University in 2021 and spent a year at the University of Cambridge as a sponsored visiting PhD student. His doctoral research was recognised with the China Mechanical Engineering Society Doctoral Dissertation Award, the most prestigious accolade for graduates in Mechanical Engineering.
He served as a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh (2021-2023). Subsequently, he began his independent research journey as the sole annual recipient of the Royal 1851 Brunel Fellowship. In Nov 2024, he moved to Cambridge continuing as a Brunel Fellow and Assistant Research Professor. From April 2026, he will start his permanent academic role as Lecturer in Computational Engineering at King’s College London.
Daisy McDonnell
Reflex Marine
Daisy McDonnell is a Project Manager and Research Analyst at Reflex Marine, working within the offshore renewable energy sector. Her role focuses on managing cross-sector projects that connect research, industry, and policy, with particular experience in floating offshore wind infrastructure and environmental analysis.
As Industry Representative on the Supergen ORE Hub Early Career Committee, Daisy is keen to support collaboration between academia and industry and to help ensure early career professionals working in commercial settings are well represented within the offshore renewables community.
