Laboratory Resource Efficiency Advisor

Imperial College London

Biography

Allison Hunter, a Technical Operations Manager having recently returned to the role from a Laboratory Resource Efficiency Advisor secondment, has 16 years’ experience in lab sustainability.  She initiated King’s College London’s very first lab sustainability project in 2008 when the building she worked in had reached its power limit.

In 2014, having identified a need for more dedicated support for freezer sustainability at King’s College London, she was awarded HEFCE Catalyst Funding.  This work, mainly on freezer energy savings, was recognized by the first King’s College London Sustainability Award in 2014 and a S-Lab Making a Difference Award in 2015.  She has chaired a lab sustainability workshop in conjunction with My Green Labs and S-Lab in 2019: Certification and Sustainable Laboratories: Equipment and Operations (see Pillars – Irish Green Labs for links) and presented another webinar later the same year on autoclaves and sustainability.

In October 2024 she was one of the organisers of a sector-wide initiative on Pathways to a Sustainable Laboratory Supply Chain 8 ways you can help make research labs more sustainable | Imperial News | Imperial College London. She has an MSc in Biomolecular Organization from Birkbeck College and is a Fellow of the Institute of Science and Technology.