The SFS Team

Agnes Thornton : Co-Founder & director

Qualifications

  • EASA ATPL
  • ATR and Airbus 320/321NEO
  • MSc Aviation Management, DCU, First Class Honours
  • Teaching and Learning Course, Part 1 FCL.930.TRI
  • ISO9001 Internal Audit
  • Fluent in German

Latest Research

Commercial-scale SAF implementation in the Middle East

SAF Policy development: Best practice implementation

SAF Sustainability criteria assessment

Darren Carty: Co-Founder & Director

Qualifications

  • MIEI : Member of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland
  • BA BAI Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering – TCD
  • Research MSc: Friction Stir Welding of AL2024 – TCD
  • Graduate Diploma Sustainable Energy Systems – DCU 2021: Distinction
  • EASA ATPL 11000+ hours
  • Airbus A320/1 Captain
  • Airbus Type Rating Instructor: TRI TRE A320/321NEO
  • EASA FI SEP - Light Aircraft Instructor

Latest Research

Social Life Cycle Assessment of SAF (Various feedstocks).

PtL Pilot scale case studies

SAF Feedstock search

CORSIA Eligible Emission unit search

Aidan bodkin: director

Qualifications

  • Qualified accountant with Chartered Institute of management accountants. 
  • MBA Trinity College 
  • Business Studies Degree - South East Technological University
  • Over two decades experience working in a variety of finance roles specialising in F.P.& A. and corporate finance activities.

Specialities

  • Complex Transactions in Aviation Investments
  • Scaling up Organisations: From startups to large multi-nationals
  • Design and Implementation of Management Accounting Systems
  • Due Diligence, Mergers & Acquisition
  • Budgeting & Financial Planning
  • Recruitment and selection

Previous Role

Avolon: Head Of Financial Planning Analysis

stephen nolan : director

Qualifications

  • PhD Environmental Microbiology (Anaerobic Digestion, AD)
  • MSc Renewable Energy Systems
  • BSc Agricultural and Environmental Science
  • ISCC Auditor
  • Experienced Biomethane Plant Operator

Specialities

  • Strong background in sustainable energy production and optimisation, including management of large plants and projects.
  • Reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
  • Microbial production of platform chemicals from organic waste & byproducts
  • Biological H2S and NH3 scrubbing
  • Operating in multiple current EU-funded projects

Previous Role

AD Biorefine – Director & Founder ( 2022-Present )

Green Generation – Anaerobic Digerstor Manager (2020-2023 )

 

john ryan: industry liason

Qualifications

  • EASA Airline Transport Pilots Licence
  • Airbus A320/321 Captain
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering – University of Limerick
  • Masters of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering – University of Limerick
  • Bachelor of Arts in International Business with Aviation Studies
  • EASA FI SEP - Light Aircraft Instructor

Latest Research

Premium cost of Sustainable Aviation Fuel compared to Fossil equivalent.

Financing the SAF Green Premium

SAF Policy Development: Best practice

Nishtha Talwar : S-LCA Specialist

Qualifications

  • PhD - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of emerging technologies within the bioeconomy.
  • Post Doctoral Researcher

Specialities

  • I’m Nishtha Talwar, a food technologist and engineer passionate about building a truly circular bioeconomy.
  • Specialist in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) quantifying environmental impacts of emerging technologies so businesses and policy-makers can make data-driven sustainability decisions.
  • Assessing the environmental impacts of novel technologies using bio-based feedstocks at early and pilot stages to identify potential hotspots.

Previous & OThers Roles

Current: Postdoctoral Researcher| PhD |Biorbic Research Center |School of Biosystems and Food Engineering |University College Dublin)

 

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