Anna Korre

Anne Korre is Professor of Environmental Engineering and heads the Minerals Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group at Imperial College London. She is also a co-director of the college's energy institute. The overall aim of her work is to reduce the environmental impact of mining for raw materials. Her work has led to a risk model now used internationally in mining operations and by regulators. Her current research focuses on storage of carbon dioxide below the ground.

Early life and education

Anne Korre grew up in Athens, Greece. Her father was a builder who had moved from Naxos island to Athens and her mother a housewife. She studied geology at the National University of Athens in 1987, followed by doctoral studies in environmental geochemistry, investigating the effect of mining of lead, zinc and silver in antiquity and the early twentieth century on a region south of Athens. From 1993 until 1995 Korre had a fellowship in Imperial College London to continue her analyses of metals in soils. She then returned to Greece to work in a desk-based role for a company but felt very unfulfilled. ^[1]

Career

Korre was able to return to Imperial College and began to work on a methodology of life-cycle holistic assessment for materials. This methodology has been developed to be suitable for the energy industry, such as for coal, oil and gases. This required extensive fieldwork. She subsequently moved on to consider possibilities and needs for storage of carbon dioxide from industrial flue gases to remove it from the atmosphere, as a complement to reducing carbon dioxide production by industry. The aim is to trap the gas underground so that it will eventually be mineralised and so immobilised. This requires that the location and movement of the carbon dioxide underground can be detected and measured to ensure that it does not return to the surface. Some suitable rock formations are under the sea around the UK. ^[1]

In 2015 Korre was promoted to professor. She is a co-director of the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre and specifically the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College. ^[2]

Publications

Korre is the author of over 150 scientific publications, conference contributions and reports including:

• Laura Lander, Evangelos Kallitsis, Alastair Hales, Jacqueline Sophie Edge, Anna Korre and Gregory Offer (2021) Cost and carbon footprint reduction of electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries through efficient thermal management. Applied Energy289 116737.
• Rajesh J. Pawar, Grant S. Bromhal, J. William Carey, William Foxall, Anna Korre, Philip S. Ringrose, Owain Tucker, Maxwell N. Watson and Joshua A. White (2015) Recent advances in risk assessment and risk management of geologic CO2 storage. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control40 pages 292–311.
• Al-Ansari, T., Korre, A., Nie, Z. and Shah, N (2015) Development of a life cycle assessment tool for the assessment of food production systems within the energy, water and food nexus. Sustainable Production and Consumption2 pages 52–66.
• Korre A., Nie Z. and Durucan S. (2010) Life cycle modelling of fossil fuel power generation with post-combustion CO2 capture. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control4 (2) pages 289–300.
• Sevket Durucan, Anna Korre and Gabriela Munoz-Melendez (2006) Mining life cycle modelling: a cradle-to-gate approach to environmental management in the minerals industry. Journal of Cleaner Production14 (12–13) pages 1057–1070.
• Imrie CE, Durucan S. and Korre A. (2000) River flow prediction using artificial neural networks: generalisation beyond the calibration range. Journal of Hydrology 233 (1–4) pages 138–153.

References

1. "Capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations".
2. "Research Co-Directors". IDRIC. Retrieved 19 February 2025.