Benjamin Krikler, PhD, is the founding Head of Energised Futures, and Director of Research and Innovation at Centrica.

A physicist and technologist turned social entrepreneur, Ben joined Centrica in 2022 to accelerate research and innovation, leading to the creation of Energised Futures in 2024.

Ben completed his PhD at Imperial College London, working on the COMET experiment in Japan, and later conducted postdoctoral research at CERN with the University of Bristol, where he focused on searching for dark matter through the LHC's CMS experiment and the LZ experiment in the US. While at CERN, he organised THE Port humanitarian hackathon, leveraging the CERN community to foster innovation amongst Geneva-based NGOs. Ben then spent three years as co-founder and CEO of RemotelyGreen, a platform to make online events a truly sociable alternative to travel.

Ben is a fellow of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute.