Oscar Williams, Phd Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

Berlin, Germany

Visionaries Tomorrow is an early-stage climate deep tech fund backing the next generation of era-defining companies rebuilding the world’s largest industries for a brighter tomorrow. We supercharge our portfolio founders by leveraging the deep industrial access and high-growth scaling expertise of our Visionaries Club LPs, some of the world’s most influential industrial giants and unicorn founders.

We're a community of 2000+ angel investors from all walks of life who learn, invest and network together. Each month we see the top vetted deals from Hustle Fund VC, and learn from their General Partners best practices for investing, frameworks, and more. The aim is to democratise investing and deal flows in the venture ecosystem, from concept onwards.

Participation in Laconia’s investment processes, collaborate on due diligence, hear perspectives on Venture Capital from industry leaders, share their expertise within the community, and collaborate with early stage founders.

London Area, United Kingdom

Advisor to early-stage ventures on UX, brand strategy and market fit, spanning digital marketing, health tech, clean tech and robotics.

• Market sizing and competitor analysis for new investment and M&A opportunities. Mapping breakthrough technologies and R&D landscapes for deep tech solutions and use cases across diverse sectors. • Delivered >50 technology projects for range of high-profile clients, resulting in 80% client retention rate. • Sourced world-leading experts to advise high-impact, high-growth technology research and ventures. • Upskilled to Project Lead, managing small teams and coordinating primary research, in addition to consolidating and presenting research findings.

London Area, United Kingdom

Writer and researcher covering cutting-edge research, innovation and ventures emerging across the world for a select B2B readership. Springwise has recently been acquired by Faversham House Publishing, and will now join the edie family, as the go-to media brand for sustainability in business.edie is the year-round resource providing energy, sustainability, CSR, ESG and resource efficiency professionals with the practical information, insight and intelligence they need to make their businesses more sustainable. The edie website is the go-to resource for professionals in these fields, hosting news, features, blogs and podcasts. edie also hosts its own bi-weekly podcast, Sustainable Business Covered, and video interview series, #SustyTalk. Beyond digital media, edie hosts a series of award-winning events and networking clubs designed to inform, empower, inspire and connect readers.Springwise is the global source for innovation intelligence. Every day, our team of 21,000+ Springspotters sources the latest innovation, start-up and new business ideas from around the world. We validate, curate and summarize the top three for daily publication — guaranteeing our readers real time, real business inspiration. Alongside the fully searchable database containing 9000+ innovations, we also offer bespoke reports to give you innovation advantage on your chosen industry, interest and/or geography and help you navigate the future.

• Writer for Physics World, with audience of 10,000's.• Creating blog news articles to effectively communicate scientific breakthroughs and research.• Editorial functions for peers. Writing on a pro bono basis.

An initiative run by LocalGlobe parent firm Phoenix Court, Newton Venture Program’s mission is to level the playing field for people from typically overlooked backgrounds - ensuring that the next generation of venture investors represent the world we live in. Newton is a joint venture between London Business School and Phoenix Court.The Fundamentals program covers key areas such as the VC ecosystem, dealflow, valuations, chemistry and conviction, negotiations, legals, follow up financing, scaling up, and the future of VC.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Developed internal and external comms & PR strategy with aim to IPO as part of company's transition to clean energy tech. Resulted in company brand and internal culture growth during aggressive expansion (68 to 195 employees, 100% increase in profits p.a.).• Built CEO personal brand and impact (LinkedIn follower growth +750%), including high profile media engagements with publications such as Sunday Times and FT.• Handpicked and developed multiple new comms channels, including brand-new intranet, onboarding process, external website revamp, product and marketing, and ESG/CSR campaigns.• Launched lunch & learn programme including 12 new training playbooks, and organised company's first conference summit (~300 attendees).• Led on 8 different comms campaigns for clean energy thought leadership.• Co-led development of new company strategic narrative and set tone of voice.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Worked collaboratively to make and manage policies that explore net zero energy routes involving hydrogen as a green alternative to natural gas in the UK.• Led large commercial buildings workstream, scoped and analysed ~50 industrial end users projects, modelled UK building stock, procured and managed contracts.• Transitioned end user team into delivery phase, partnering with multiple suppliers and key gas network stakeholders. Personally managed project delivery functions and evidence building for 4 key workstreams across the End User sub-programme of the Hydrogen Heating Team.• Redesigned comms for flagship project Hy4Heat including Ministerial briefings, FAQs. Contributed to Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy and Energy White Paper.• Engaged with senior leadership across a variety of professional interest areas including equality within policymaking, analysis of data sources, stakeholder engagement and core communication functions across Government.• Lead for BEIS Science and Engineering Network learning and development and series of talks and Co-Chair of Project Delivery Network Special Interest Group: Learning from Experience.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Established media hub to monitor heating sector business readiness.• Liaised with ~200 external stakeholders and governmental departments to produce guidance used effectively by all tradespeople across the UK.• Tracked and monitored impact and risks across sector + supply chains, and produced 5 public-facing Ministerial statements, high-profile position papers and correspondence.• External and internal stakeholder coordination and engagement to collectively mitigate impacts in short and long term

• Led on biogas combustion and biomethane sections for low carbon heat consultation, resulting in Green Gas Support Scheme and Clean Heat Grant.• Assessed funding mechanism for the Renewable Heat Incentive, and biogas combustion technology support to ensure value for taxpayer money.• Lead organiser for BEIS Science and Engineering Network Speaker Series.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Focus on analysing and addressing gender imbalance in STEM education pipeline through series of actionable insights. Actions led to attainment of Athena Silver Award for department.• Chaired and organised inaugural thesis writing workshop. Successfully received with ~150 attendees and 95% positive feedback.

• Led chemistry tutorials, laboratory demonstrations and workshops for ~150 pupils.• Redesigned syllabus. Awarded Teaching Excellence Prize (~200 candidates).

London, United Kingdom

• Coached and mentored 30 R&D employees at Unilever to successful completion of data science and machine learning apprenticeships.

Kaust, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

• Conducted technical laboratory research as part of a series of month-long R&D placements at SABIC, learning how energy materials such as batteries and catalysts are innovated and developed at an industrial level, and the wider economics driving the industry.

Kaust, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

• Industrial research placement exploring interface between fundamental and applied chemistry and physics, in order to engineer more effective energy storage, catalytic and green materials

London, United Kingdom

• Delivered one-on-one mentoring via the Access for Rural and Coastal Communities scheme, designed to encourage and facilitate geographically restricted students to attend university.

Ivydale Primary School

• Taught primary school debating to promote social mobility for 3 classes of underprivileged children. • Providing skillsets to children to maximise opportunities for the future

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Personal and academic mentoring role.• Tailored sessions to guide first year students to adapt to independent living and to physics undergraduate studies.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Project developing a LiDAR (radar using light) system for use with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. • In conjunction with Natural Environment Research Council to remotely sense geophysical hazards.• Python programming used to analyse geophysical fieldwork.

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

• Research and development into producing anti-counterfeit features for secure documents.• Interdisciplinary laboratory work.• VIP client interactions and report writing.• Six Sigma experimental design excellence project management training.• Training on Intellectual Property and High Performance Teams.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Charitable fundraising alongside university studies.• Good organisational and communication skills.

St.Ives, United Kingdom

• Managed team of waiting staff, drawing up work rota and updating stock.• Leadership and business management skills.• Excellent feedback and reviews on TripAdvisor and other review platforms.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Nanotechnology / Chemistry

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Nanotechnology / Chemistry

Activities and Societies: President of UCell (UCL Fuel Cells Society), Co-Founder of SciPEN (Science Policy Network), UCL Energy Society.

Msci Physics With A Year In Industry, Physics

Activities and Societies: Student Ambassador, Peer Mentor, Bristol PLUS Award, Bristol Optical Students' Society, Bristol Debating Union.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Co-founder of the Surfing society, Student representative, Mini Assistant's week-long immersion in France.

Education record

Activities and Societies: 1st XV Rugby, Represented county in Athletics (High Jump and 800m), Student Counsellor, Head Boy, Language.