Energised Futures

Ben Krikler

Director of Research and innovation A physicist and technologist turned social entrepreneur, Ben joined Centrica as Director of Research & Innovation in 2022 to accelerate research and innovation. Fusing academia with entrepreneurship, Ben launched Energised Futures, powered by Centrica in the summer of 2024. With a PhD from Imperial College London, working on the COMET […]

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Aleksei Mashlakov

Innovation Specialist Aleksei Mashlakov is a second-generation electrical engineer with expertise in energy informatics. Aleksei earned his PhD at LUT University in Finland, where he developed solutions to enable large-scale participation of small-scale energy resources in energy markets and grid ancillary services. During his time at LUT, he also spent six months as a visiting researcher

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