Meet Our Researchers
Academic Staff
Associated with Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group
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| Dr Emmanuel Essah Professor Head of School |
Dr Christos Halios Lecturer |
Dr Rory Jones Associate Professor |
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Dr Máté Lőrincz |
Dr Eugene Mohareb Associate Professor |
Dr Mehdi Shahrestani Associate Professor in Sustainable Technology |
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| Dr Omid Shariati Lecturer |
Professor Stefan Thor Smith Professor |
Professor Jacopo Torriti Professor |
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| Dr Maria Vahdati Associate Professor |
Professor Runming Yao Professor |
Postdoctoral Research Assistants
Associated with Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group
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| Dr Jessica Bosseaux Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Food Systems Modelling |
Dr Hannah Charles PDRA for Residential Air-conditioning Demand Futures (RADFutures) project |
Dr Amelie Dakoure Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
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| Dr Michelle Felton Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Environmental Impacts of Wheat |
Dr Jose Luis Ramirez-Mendiola Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Flexibility in Energy Demand |
Dr Wesley Tang Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
Visiting Research Fellows
Associated with Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group
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| Denise Hertwig Air Pollution Exposure |
Current PhD Students
| Student | Topic |
| Abdul Ahad Jhumka |
Study of the transient stability of a renewable energy grid for Small Island Developing states
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| Ahmed Elgamal |
Assessement of energy management approaches of Virtual Power Plants in regulated and deregulated electricity markets
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| Azad Ashraf | Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment – Decentralized waste to compost |
| Christina Bristow | Using an Urban Metabolism approach to understand the infrastructural dynamics of the UK urban domestic heat supply |
| Hillary Chanda | Renewable energy adoption and management in rural Zambia |
| Jedidiah Oru-Bo | Decarbonisation of the UK food system |
| Josie Lloyd-Papworth | |
| Isaac Guzman Estrada | An assessment of low carbon food environments |
| Raed Alshammari | |
| Tariq Obeid | Forecast Uncertainty analysis for PV+ Systems operation strategies. |
| Vitor Lavor | Airborne infection risk in complex urban environments: modelling, mapping and mitigation |
| Wenbo Wang | Microclimate simulation for strategic urban planning-based on GIS |
| Xizhen Huang | The Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure for Mitigating Urban Heat Stress and Improving Perceived Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Chongqing and Reading: A Cross-Climatic Mixed Methods Comparative Case Study |
| Nao Shibata | Life cycle sustainability assessment of domestic retrofit |
| Yiming Sui | Carbon management in the Chinese food system |
Past PhD Students
| Student | Topic |
| Nada Al Dosary | Evaluating the thermal impact of built environment surfaces on urban trees for achieving maximum cooling performance in the school’s car parking and walkways in the UK and Saudi Arabia. |
| Bashar Alfalah | Identifying the Patterns and Profiles of the Occupants and their Influence on Energy Performance in a High-Density Higher Education Buildings |
| Jenny Berger | The impact of indoor plants on indoor air quality and people’s well-being |
| Brian Chiu | Cultural ecosystem services from urban greenspace |
| Shiyu Han | Modelling and mapping of retrofit of urban residential buildings |












