Dr Ahmed I. Osman is a Senior Lecturer in Energy Engineering at Canterbury CC University, United Kingdom, and an internationally recognised expert in sustainable energy, carbon accounting, LCA/TEA, MRV, clean fuels, hydrogen, CCUS, biochar carbon removal and AI-assisted sustainability optimisation.

His work focuses on turning complex technical, environmental and techno-economic evidence into defensible decisions for research, policy, innovation funding and industrial deployment. He has authored 219 Scopus-indexed publications, with more than 32,000 citations, an h-index of 88 and 14 Highly Cited Papers. ScholarGPS ranked him #7 worldwide in Biomass in Environmental Chemistry and among the top 0.05% of scholars globally.

Dr Osman is Distinguished Editor of Environmental Chemistry Letters and serves in editorial roles with Scientific Reports and Molecular Catalysis. He is also a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and has acted as an evaluator or reviewer for EPSRC, ERC, SEAI, ANR, FFAR, The Research Council of Oman and the Canadian Poultry Research Council.

His applied work includes hydrogen systems, methanol and dimethyl ether pathways, CCUS, biochar carbon removal, LCA/TEA and MRV-ready clean-technology assessment. At AI Horizons 2026, he brings a practical cross-sector perspective on how AI can support evidence-grounded, auditable and governance-ready enterprise decisions.