Dr Thomas Beard
Clean Shipping Service Lead
BMT
Dr Thomas Beard is a chartered engineer and the Clean Shipping Lead at BMT, with a focus on Alternative Fuels. He has a PhD in Hydrogen Safety from Loughborough University UK, following this he has spent several years in industry working on a variety of aspects of ship and submarine design and build. This includes alternative fuel safety onboard vessels and in ports, also supporting colleagues in Australia with relevant projects.
He is the co-chair of the National Maritime Hydrogen & Future Fuels working group (in the UK), a member of the Maritime UK Hydrogen group, on the steering group for MariNH3 (ammonia in maritime) and on the Industry Advisory Board for Ocean-REFuel (offshore power to X). He has published and presented numerous papers on the topic of alternative fuels for commercial and naval vessels.
Dr Thomas Beard is a chartered engineer and the Clean Shipping Lead at BMT, with a focus on Alternative Fuels. He has a PhD in Hydrogen Safety from Loughborough University UK, following this he has spent several years in industry working on a variety of aspects of ship and submarine design and build. This includes alternative fuel safety onboard vessels and in ports, also supporting colleagues in Australia with relevant projects.
He is the co-chair of the National Maritime Hydrogen & Future Fuels working group (in the UK), a member of the Maritime UK Hydrogen group, on the steering group for MariNH3 (ammonia in maritime) and on the Industry Advisory Board for Ocean-REFuel (offshore power to X). He has published and presented numerous papers on the topic of alternative fuels for commercial and naval vessels.