Meet Our Researchers
Academic Staff
Associated with Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group
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Dr Phil Coker Associate Professor |
Dr Emmanuel Essah Associate Professor |
Dr Christos Halios Lecturer |
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Dr Rory Jones Associate Professor |
Dr Máté Lőrincz |
Dr Eugene Mohareb Associate Professor |
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Dr Mehdi Shahrestani Associate Professor in Sustainable Technology |
Professor Li Shao Professor |
Professor Stefan Thor Smith Professor |
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Professor Jacopo Torriti Professor |
Dr Maria Vahdati Associate Professor |
Dr Chuang Wen Associate Professor |
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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 Michelle Felton Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Environmental Impacts of Wheat |
Dr Samuele Lo Piano Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Flexibility in Energy Demand |
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Dr Jose Luis Ramirez-Mendiola Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Flexibility in Energy Demand |
Dr Sajan Preet Postdoctoral Research Associate in Energy Demand for Heating and Cooling |
Dr Omid Shariati |
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Dr Wesley Tang Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
Dr Timur Yunusov Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Flexibility in Energy Demand |
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 |
Bashar Alfalah | Identifying the Patterns and Profiles of the Occupants and their Influence on Energy Performance in a High-Density Higher Education Buildings |
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 |
Jenny Berger | The impact of indoor plants on indoor air quality and people’s well-being |
Josie Lloyd-Papworth | |
Isaac Guzman Estrada | An assessment of low carbon food environments |
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. |
Raed Alshammari | |
Shiyu Han | Modelling and mapping of retrofit of urban residential buildings |
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 |
Brian Chiu | Cultural ecosystem services from urban greenspace |