The Clean Technology Group at Nottingham was founded by Professor Martyn Poliakoff CBE FRS (MP).The group was the first in  Chemistry to be awarded an EPSRC Platform Grant (GR/R02863) which was renewed in 2004 (GR/S87409). In 2002, MP was elected FRS, partly in recognition of his pioneering work on the use of SCFs for greener chemical manufacture. He is both FRSC and FIChemE.

In recent years, MP has won three RSC awards (Interdisciplinary, 2001; Industrial Innovation Team, 2002; Process Technology, 2003) and he was the 2007 Royal Society UK-Canada Rutherford Lecturer. MP plays a leading role promoting green chemistry world-wide and chairs the Editorial Board of the journal Green Chemistry. In 2008, he was awarded a CBE for ‘Services to Science’. 

Mike George (MWG) was promoted Professor of Chemistry in 2003. His interests lie in Physical Inorganic Chemistry, particularly Time-resolved Infrared (TRIR) spectroscopy. He successfully led bids (EPSRC, CCLRC and BBSRC) for major funding to create ‘PIRATE’ and ‘ULTRA’ world leading TRIR facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. MWG pioneered the application of TRIR to SCFs; recent successes include investigating the reactivity of organometallic noble gas complexes and the first detection of these complexes by NMR. MWG has been awarded the 2002-03 Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship, 2003 Corday-Morgan Medal, 2005 RSC Photochemistry Award, the 2005 Masimo Horiba Special Award for innovations in IR spectroscopy and, in 2008, a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. He is currently the Chair of the RSC Dalton Division Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms subject group. 

Richard Graham is a newly appointed lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Nottingham. He has authored several highly-influential papers on the Statistical Physics of polymer fluids and has recently been focussing on the influence of flow and phase transitions. He has won several prestigious prizes including the Journal of Rheology best paper award for 2005. 

Trevor Drage is an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (EP/C543203/1) in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.  The fellowship involves the development of a range of novel adsorbent materials for the capture of CO₂ and has led to a major programme of 3 DTI and EU contracts (DTI clean coal fund Projects 406, 408 and RFCS; RFC-CR-CT-2006-00003).  The projects have included collaborations with E.On UK, RWE, Doosan Babcock and Elcogas. 

Mercedes Maroto-Valer is principal investigator for the Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (£1M EPSRC Challenge Engineering Award EP/F012098/1)., led and underpinned by pioneering research on mineral activation for CO₂ storage.