Jethro Akroyd
Affiliated Research Fellow

Biography
Jethro is a research-focused chartered chemical engineer who works at the interface of academia and industry, with experience cutting across multinationals, start-ups and universities. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and holds positions at CMCL, a multi-award-winning SME, and as a Senior Research Associate in the Computational Modelling Group at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB), University of Cambridge.
Jethro has worked extensively with the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) to develop solutions to enable the cross-domain interoperability of data and models, with a focus on applications relating to sustainability and the energy transition.
He recently led work by CMCL to implement the first cross-sector digital twin of energy, water and telecoms infrastructure networks as part of the Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo), which is a climate change adaptation digital twin demonstrator project developed by the National Digital Twin programme to improve resilience across infrastructure networks.
Jethro previously worked as a Senior Process Engineer in the Research and Development divisions of AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline.
Research Profiles
- ORCID: 0000-0002-2143-8656,
- ResearcherID: A-8698-2010,
- Scopus: 35721459200,
- Google Scholar: gMQYF0gAAAAJ.
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Recent Preprints
Jiaru Bai, Simon D. Rihm, Aleksandar Kondinski, Fabio Saluz, Xinhong Deng, George Brownbridge, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 335, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2025.
Frederick Ivens, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 334, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2025.
332: Beyond Connected Digital Twins – from GIS to The World Avatar
Yong Ren Tan, Markus Hofmeister, Shin Zert Phua, George Brownbridge, Kushagar Rustagi, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, Amit Bhave, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 332, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
331: Transforming building retrofits: Linking energy, equity, and health insights from The World Avatar
Jiying Chen, Jiaru Bai, Jieyang Xu, Feroz Farazi, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 331, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
Recent Publications
Natural language access point to digital metal–organic polyhedra chemistry in The World Avatar
Simon D. Rihm, Dan N. Tran, Aleksandar Kondinski, Laura Pascazio, Fabio Saluz, Xinhong Deng, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Data-Centric Engineering 6, 22, (2025).
Municipal heat planning within The World Avatar
Yi-Kai Tsai, Markus Hofmeister, Srishti Ganguly, Kushagar Rustagi, Yong Ren Tan, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Energy and AI 20, 100479, (2025).
Andrés Ortiz, Sebastian López, Alejandro Ríos, Henry Copete, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, Markus Kraft, and Alejandro Molina, Journal of Cleaner Production 489, 144654, (2025).
Impact of heat pumps and future energy prices on regional inequalities
Jieyang Xu, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Advances in Applied Energy 17, 100201, (2025).
Contact Details
Email: | jwja2@cam.ac.uk_delete_this_bit |
Telephone: | +44 (0)1223 762785 |
Address: | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology University of Cambridge West Cambridge Site Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS United Kingdom |