Helen Shiels

Business Innovation Manager  | Biorenewables Development Centre

My preferred location(s)

  • East Midlands
  • East of England
  • International
  • London
  • North East
  • North West
  • Northern Ireland
  • Scotland
  • South East
  • South West
  • Wales
  • West Midlands
  • Yorkshire and the Humber

My background

  • Academia
  • Industry

My field of interest and expertise

  • AI, robotics, machinery and data science
  • Biodiversity, ecology, conservation
  • Consumers and diets
  • Crop production
  • Food security and trade
  • GHG measurement, accounting and markets
  • Infrastructure and logistics
  • Land strategy and sequestration
  • Livestock farming
  • Policy and economics
  • Power, inequality and just transition
  • Processing and manufacturing
  • Supply chains, retail and hospitality
  • Systems thinking and modelling
  • Waste, energy and circular systems

I am interested in working with other members on

- Food and Agri-food waste valorisation - Biorefining agri-crop residues - Pre-treatment, processing and downstream processing of biomass materials - Developing value chains from biofibres crops such as hemp and flax - High carbon capture cropping options - cover crops, leys, bioenergy crops, annual fibres

About me

Part of the Business Innovation Team at the Biorenewables Development Centre, near York. We have a team of biologists and chemists and business innovation advisers, all focused on growing the bioeconomy.

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