Professor Agustin Valera-Medina has participated as PI/Co-I on 33 industrial projects with multi-nationals including PEMEX, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Ricardo, Airbus and FloGas (>£35M). He has published 229 papers (h-index 42), 95 of these specifically concerning ammonia power. Prof. Valera-Medina led Cardiff’s contribution to the Innovate-UK ‘Decoupled Green Energy’ Project (2015-2018) led by Siemens and in partnership with STFC and the University of Oxford, which aims to demonstrate the use of green ammonia produced from wind energy. He is currently PI of various projects (SAFE-AGT, FLEXnCONFU, OceanREFuel, MariNH3, CaipiriNH3a, etc.) to demonstrate ammonia power in turbine engines, Internal Combustion Engines and furnaces. He has been part of various scientific boards, chairing sessions in international conferences and moderating large industrial panels on the topic of “Ammonia for Direct Use”. He has supported two Royal Society Policy Briefings related to the use of ammonia as energy vector, and he is the principal author of the books “Techno-economic challenges of ammonia as energy vector” and "Ammonia Combustion Applications". He is Co-Director of the Institute of Net Zero Innovation and Director of the Centre of Excellence on Ammonia Technologies (CEAT), Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2024).

Eric Buchanan directs the Renewable Energy Program at the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) in Morris, MN. He has an aerospace engineering degree and leads applied research focusing on reducing fossil fuel use in agricultural systems through agrivoltaics, strategic electrification, and E-fuels. 

Mike serves as the Renewable Hydrogen and Ammonia Research Lead and heads the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) as the Director of Operations.
Over his 27 year career at the WCROC, Mike has overseen the development of the renewable energy program at WCROC and has participated as principle investigator on over $30 million of research and demonstration projects including wind energy, biomass gasification, renewable hydrogen and ammonia, and solar energy systems. He led the renewable energy program’s strategy to reduce fossil energy consumption in agricultural production systems through incorporating renewable and efficient energy technologies. This role led to commissioning the first-in-the-world wind-to-ammonia pilot plant in 2013. As a member of the University’s Climate Smart Municipality program, he continues to work with community partners in Morris, MN and Saerbeck, Germany on issues related to clean energy, energy efficiency, water quality, recycling, waste reduction, waste water treatment, and public education of these issues. In his Director of Operations role, he oversees the 1,110 acre research farm which includes programs in dairy, horticulture, and swine in addition to renewable energy.
As a life-long resident of west central Minnesota, Mike also operates a small family farm and continues to maintain a strong focus on agricultural and rural economic development with a goal to provide opportunities for the next generations of farm families.