Dr Isabella Panovic is the Programme Manager at Innovate UK, facilitating the delivery of Innovate UK and the Department for Transport’s £200m Zero Emission HGV & Infrastructure Demonstrator programme. The programme aims to increase HGV operator confidence and government understanding of various zero emission HGV technologies and their infrastructure. Prior to joining the Land & Maritime Transport team at Innovate UK, Isabella has worked in R&D policy for a number of years within the UKRI research councils to support development of other net zero technologies, such as offshore renewables and decarbonising heating and cooling. Isabella also completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews, focussing on biorefineries and the chemistry of biomass.