Dr. Omid Shahrokhi

Omid is a Research Fellow in the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions working on integrated energy systems and energy storage. In the EPSRC ENSIGN programme, he leads the technical development of the Eden Campus digital twin: a data layer built from a year of inverter, meteorological and battery telemetry at a 1 MW solar farm, and a day-ahead PV forecasting pipeline validated over twelve months of operational data. He is also building the data foundations for a multi-vector model of the Grangemouth industrial cluster, integrating SP Energy Networks, Elexon and National Gas data through their APIs, and has led district-scale studies of heating options such as gas CHP versus heat pumps and their effect on cost, emissions and grid demand (Enlit Europe 2025).

Omid is Heriot-Watt co-lead on the EPSRC MaxStoreUK project on hydrogen storage in porous rock, with the British Geological Survey and the University of Manchester, where he is developing reservoir-scale models of the Bunter Sandstone. His earlier work in RCCS, on the UKRI IDRIC hydrogen-storage projects, combined high-pressure core-flood and micro-model experiments with pore-scale imaging to provide flow data for reservoir simulation; it was cited in the IDRIC Policy Synthesis Report 2022 and contributed to the Scottish Government’s Draft Hydrogen Action Plan.

He holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and BSc and MSc degrees from Sharif University of Technology and is a Heriot-Watt approved research supervisor.

Research, MSc and PhD Supervision

• PV generation forecasting and digital twins for energy assets
• Integrated, multi-vector energy-system modelling and dispatch optimisation for industrial clusters
• Energy data pipelines and API integration (DNO, market and gas-network data)
• Hydrogen and CO₂ storage in porous rock, from pore scale to reservoir scale
• Multiphase flow in porous media and pore-scale imaging