Chris Bingham is now working as a Professor of Energy Conversion at the  University of Lincoln. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Systems  and Control Engineering at Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1989, and the M.Sc.  degree in Control Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 1990.  He was awarded a Ph.D. by Cranfield University in 1994 for research on  control systems to accommodate non-linear dynamic effects in aerospace  flight-surface actuators. From 1994 to 2010, he held academic positions at  the University of Sheffield as a researcher and Senior Lecturer. He is currently Director of Research in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Lincoln. He is an Editorial Board Member of ‘Energies’.