Professor Bill Nuttall
William Nuttall, or ‘Bill’ as he is often known, is Professor of Energy at The Open University, based in Milton Keynes. At The OU, he is in the School of Engineering and Innovation, part of the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Specialisms
Following a First-Class degree in Physics from the University of East Anglia in 1987, Professor Nuttall won a Fulbright Post-Graduate Student Award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study for a PhD in physics. His PhD was supervised by Professor R J Birgeneau.
On returning to the UK in 1993, he worked as a scientist at Keele and Birmingham universities and then for the Institute of Physics in science policy. He joined the teaching faculty of Cambridge University in 2002.
At Cambridge, he held a shared post between Judge Business School, where he was based, and Cambridge University Engineering Department. In 2002, he launched the MPhil in Technology Policy for the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
He is an author, or editor, of ten books including Nuclear Renaissance - Second Edition (2022) and Britain and the Bomb (2019) and author of more than 200 academic papers.
Professor Nuttall continues to have strong links with Cambridge. He continues to serve on the Management Committee of Cambridge Nuclear Energy Centre.
He is also a Fellow of the Construction Engineering Masters programme of Cambridge University Engineering Department and an Associate of the university’s Energy Policy Research Group. He is also a Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge and a Non-Resident Fellow of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines, USA.