CaribOx Visiting Fellowship will start application of green ammonia models and tools to small island developing states

Dr Dillon Ramsook, Assistant Professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT), has been awarded a CaribOx Visiting Fellowship through the Caribbean Oxford Initiative to collaborate with an Oxford academic in 2026.

CaribOx is a new visiting fellowship and travel-grant programme designed to support researchers across all disciplines based at Caribbean research institutions and to facilitate collaborations with researchers based at the University of Oxford. The programme aims to be a nucleus for world-class international research and knowledge exchange across disciplines and across career paths and stages.

Dr Ramsook will be collaborating with Professor Rene Bañares-Alcántara on a project investigating the techno-economic and system optimisation of green ammonia production for small island developing states. This will include a two month visit to Oxford in May and June next year. Professor Bañares-Alcántara says “Trinidad and Tobago is currently the only net exporter of ammonia in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region which is a net importer of fertilisers with, for example, Brazil importing 95% of its nitrogen-based fertilisers. This is why it is imperative to maintain or even increase ammonia production in the region while at the same time decarbonising it.”

He says, "I’m looking forward to collaborating with Rene Bañares-Alcántara and the team at Oxford to deepen my research on sustainable energy transitions. I see this collaboration as a key avenue to collaborate, gather, and adapt Oxford's leading practice insights, with a particular focus on modelling pathways for decarbonising small island developing states. Scientifically, my aim is to strengthen the integration of systems modelling and energy strategies that can be adapted to the Caribbean context.

 Professor Rene Bañares-Alcántara adds, “The collaboration with Dr Ramsook will start the application of the models and tools developed by the OXGATE group Oxford Green Ammonia TEchnology (OXGATE) to a new type of geographical location: small island developing states. We expect that the lessons learned from this collaboration will be directly applicable to other countries, particularly in the rest of the Caribbean and Central America.”

Dr Ramsook adds, “I’m excited to use this Fellowship to build meaningful academic and policy partnerships, bringing home new perspectives and tools that can support climate action and sustainable development in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider region."