DR KELLY THAMBIMUTHU
Senior Scientist
CANMET Energy Technology

Dr Kelly Thambimuthu is a Senior Scientist with the CANMET Energy Technology Centre (CETC), Natural Resources Canada. At CETC, Kelly is responsible for R&D on advanced fossil energy utilisation cycles and is an adviser on carbon management and CO2 capture and storage technologies. In the international arena, he is the Chairman of the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme, a leading group within the International Energy Agency/Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (IEA/OECD) evaluating options to achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil energy use. In other IEA initiatives he is the Canadian delegate to the IEA Clean Coal Centre and the IEA Zero Emissions Technologies (ZETS) task force. Dr. Thambimuthu is a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III, coordinating lead author team currently writing a special assessment report on CO2 Capture and Storage. In addition, he is also a Vice Chair of the Technical Group of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), which is an international collaborative initiative launched in 2003 by the USA and 15 other countries to foster the development of carbon sequestration technologies as a climate change mitigation option.

Dr. Thambimuthu holds degrees at the Batchelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate levels in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, McGill University, Canada and University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. In 2003, Dr Thambimuthu held an appointment as the TD Canada Trust, Walter Bean Visiting Professor in the Environment at the University of Waterloo in Canada.