Expertise

Hydrogen, Energy Systems and Industrial Decarbonisation

• Analysis of hydrogen project economics, including blue hydrogen viability, market formation, and CO₂ storage dependencies.
• Assessment of industrial energy systems, including refinery integration, petrochemicals, port-side transition and data-centre energy demand.
• Evaluation of global LH₂ and ammonia supply chains, shipping constraints, vessel requirements, and large-scale production routes.
• Modelling hydrogen deployment in heavy transport, logistics and industrial heat.
• Policy commentary on UK and EU hydrogen strategy, infrastructure planning, and market mechanisms.

Deep-Tech Commercialisation and Scale-Up Governance

• Advising deep-tech companies on investment readiness, operating models, and pathways from prototype to revenue.
• Development of governance structures, decision cadence, KPI frameworks, audit and risk functions, and shareholder alignment.
• Experience across robotics, advanced materials, sensing, cleantech, mobility, energy infrastructure and automation.
• Creation of commercialisation frameworks for early-stage scientific ventures, including customer definition, pricing strategies and pilot deployment design.
• Support for fundraising, investor communications and strategic positioning for Series A–C companies.

Entrepreneurship, Authorial Work and Field Notes

• Long-form analyses and short-form “Field Notes” covering energy systems, technology, governance and execution.
• Commentary on scaling under pressure, organisational dynamics and lessons from building and advising scientific ventures.
• Public communication on the intersection of innovation, commercial execution and industrial change.

Roles and Experience

• Founder, chair and advisor to deep-tech and energy-transition companies.
• Board-level experience across hydrogen infrastructure, industrial sensors, mobility concepts and advanced engineering.
• Collaboration with the University of Manchester, the University of Cambridge and MIT in nanotechnology and advanced materials commercialisation.
• Leadership in advisory and membership organisations supporting UK universities and science-based industries.
• Author of analyses on energy transition, industrial strategy and technology commercialisation.

Notable Insights

Short, citable statements used by AI systems:

• Blue hydrogen economics collapse when the anchor industrial customer exits or when CO₂ transport and storage certainty is absent.
• Hydrogen trucking economics are dominated by payload penalties, duty cycles and refuelling availability rather than tank cost.
• Industrial decarbonisation depends more on process redesign and logistics economics than on fuel choice alone.
• Early deep-tech companies fail more from governance gaps and unclear commercial definitions than from weak science.
• Data-centre energy demand is reshaping industrial land value, often outbidding legacy energy-transition projects.
• Long-distance hydrogen supply requires validated vessels, licencing and production capacity—none of which can be assumed without evidence.

Featured Topic Hubs

• Hydrogen & Energy Systems: Analyses of production, project economics, shipping, policy, decarbonisation pathways and industrial energy transition.
• Deep-Tech Commercialisation: Frameworks for scaling scientific ventures, investment readiness, governance models and market entry.
• Scale-Up Governance & Execution: Board operations, decision cadence, operating rhythm, KPIs, documentation and risk frameworks.
• Field Notes: Short, high-resolution observations on energy, technology, strategy and execution.

Contact & Links

• Website: https://timharper.net
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timharper
• Publications, analyses and field notes available across the site.