Katriona holds several leadership positions within the hydrogen economy:

• Sub-task lead (H2 Conversion & Contamination) and sub-task co-lead (Storage Integrity) on the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA-TCP) underground hydrogen storage task (2021 onwards). The experts in these collaborations work to advance the research, development, and commercialisation of energy technologies within the IEA Shared Goals of energy security, environmental protection and economic growth, as well as engagement worldwide
• Invited member of the UK Government Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) Hydrogen Advisory Council Transportation and Storage Infrastructure Working Group.
• Invited member of the Scottish Enterprise SHINE (Scottish Hydrogen Innovation Network) program, driving business development within the hydrogen economy in Scotland
• Steering Committee member for the Society of Petroleum Engineers forum on the emerging hydrogen market (2021 onwards).
• UK Research and Innovation expert peer reviewer and assessment panel leadership
• Invited member of the Gas Goes Green Academic Challenge Forum (2020 onwards), a collaboration between all 5 of Britain’s gas network companies to develop the first zero carbon gas grid by speeding up the switch from natural gas to hydrogen for the 85% of UK households connected to the gas grid
• Invited appointment onto the advisory board of HydrogenOne Capital Ltd (2020 onwards). The first London-listed investment fund dedicated to clean hydrogen.
• Featured in the Hydrogen Economist 2023 Women in Hydrogen 50.

Media engagement

• Interviewed at the Applied Geoscience laboratory by BBC for broadcast on BBC One, Six and Ten o’clock Television News, BBC Radio 4 and the BBC website about hydrogen energy being used in homes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60241966 and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015gmx
• Academic expert on the “39 Ways to Save the Planet” team at BBC Radio 4 to deliver the content for the hydrogen episode that was broadcast on Thu 28th Oct at 1345 on Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010xpd
• BBC Radio 4 Inside Science (19/08/2021). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000yv03
• “The neighbourhood leading a green energy revolution” Interviewed by the BBC in March 2022 for a BBC program on the SGN H100 hydrogen for heat program. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60241966
• Our work on hydrogen storage capacity was included in a Sunday Times article “Hydrogen or heat pump? The battle of the boilers is hotting up” (April 2021). https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hydrogen-or-heat-pump-the-battle-of-the-boilers-is-hotting-up-b09gcp0vq
• Initiated an article on “How Orkney reinvented the future with hydrogen” with Sunday Herald journalist Vicky Allen, bringing together a number of leading experts in the Hydrogen field for comment (March 2019). https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17523258.orkney-reinvented-future-hydrogen/
• https://geologicaworld.com/about/news/meet-the-expert-katriona-edlmann
• https://ukccsrc.ac.uk/research/flexible-funding/flexible-funding-2022/dr-katriona-edlmann/

Editorship roles

• Society Books Editor for the Geological Society London Books Editorial Committee, 2020 onward
• Editor of Geological Society of London Special Publication “Enabling secure subsurface storage in future energy systems”

Knowledge exchange

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, November 2018.
• STEM ambassador since 2018. The role is to inspire young people to progress further in STEM subjects and demonstrate their value in life and careers.