Theme Affiliates

Interests

The intersection of autonomous systems, multi-agent modelling and network optimisation and their applications to freight distribution and passenger transportation

Affiliated research themes: Connected efficient cities , Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles: Director of MSc Transport

Interests:

Modelling and optimisation of humanitarian operations for disaster response and resilience, and developing AI-based manned and unmanned airspace management systems.

Affiliated research themes: Connected efficient cities

Teaching: Freight Transport, Operational Research and Systems Analysis, Analytical Methods, Air Transport and Surveying.

Other roles: Admissions Tutor for MSc Transport

Interests

Statistical modelling; causal inference; data science; transport operations and planning; network performance and resilience; risk and safety; economics.

Affiliated research themes: Connected efficient cities , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching:  Mathematics, Statistical Modelling, Analytical Methods, Transport Modelling.

Other roles: Head of Transport Section/Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling , and Co-Director of Transport Strategy Centre

Interests

Fluid mechanics for climate, energy and environmental sustainability, with a focus on buoyancy-driven flows in natural, industrial and built environments.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond (Theme Lead), Connected efficient cities

Teaching: Undergraduate (MEng) programme, MSc (Fluid Mechanics) programme, and the MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures .

Other roles: Head of Fluid Mechanics Section , Theme Lead for Engineering net zero and beyond , Chair of Board of Examiners for MSc Fluid Mechanics , and Departmental Representative for  EPSRC Centre for   Doctoral Training in the   Mathematics for our Future Climate .

Interests

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Connected efficient cities

Interests

Novel systems tools focused on quantifying the interaction between the water cycle and sustainable development.

Affiliated research themes: Sustainable natural environment , Connected efficient cities

Other roles:   Co-Director of the Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation

Interests

Critical infrastructure resilience, user-centric mobility and positioning, and navigation and timing (PNT) systems for land, sea, air and space applications, including the European Union's EGNOS and GALILEO systems.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Connected efficient cities

Other roles:  Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests

Stochastic modelling of rainfall fields for the purpose of hydrological simulation and flood design, with a particular emphasis upon fine time-scales.

Affiliated research themes: Sustainable natural environment , Connected efficient cities

Other roles: Senior Tutor (Postgraduate Research)

Interests

Development of combined musculoskeletal and finite element modelling approaches.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Connected efficient cities

Other roles: Learning Threads Coordinator, and Professional Institutions Liaison Officer

Interests

Structural design and testing of light steel modular frames, composite structures; development and numerical modelling of steel and concrete structures; development of 3D printing of concrete structures; building Information Modelling (BIM) and application of digital-twin in construction.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Connected efficient cities

Teaching: Module coordinator and teacher for MEng modules Civil Engineering Design 1 and 2 including Creative Design and Constructionarium.

Other roles: Head of Departmental Outreach and Director of Integrated Space Science and Engineering

Interests

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), smart transport infrastructure, transport safety, time-series models, count-data models and evaluating transport interventions.

Affiliated research themes: Connected efficient cities , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching: MEng modules Mathematics 1 and  Traffic Engineering; MSc modules Analytical Methods, Safety, Security and Human Factors, and Intelligent and Autonomous Transport.

Other roles: Senior Tutor (Undergraduate)

Interests

Urban energy systems; transport and energy system models; sustainable transport and public health; consumer choice behaviour; land use-transport models; equity, health and well-being implications of socio-technical systems.

Affiliated research themes: Connected efficient cities , Engineering net zero and beyond

Teaching:  Transport planning and policy; activity-based, tour-based and four-step models of travel demand; consumer demand models; discrete choice models; demand analysis for the electrification of transport.

Other roles: Chair of the Equality, Diversity and Departmental Culture (EDDC) committee , and Departmental Tutor for Women

Interests

Emissions; climate change; air pollution; aerosol science; environmental impacts of transport.

Affiliated research themes: Connected efficient cities

Teaching: Sustainable transport; transport, environmental impacts and safety.

Other roles: Director of Undergraduate Studies

Interests

Modelling, optimisation, control of water supply systems.; resilience, sustainability, water quality and leakage reduction; sensing, high-frequency monitoring and digital twins; AI/ML integration, mechanistic models and risk management.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Connected efficient cities

Other roles: Anglian Water and Cla-Val/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Dynamically Adaptive Networks

Interests

Transport processes in fluids, with applications in urban areas (urban heat island, dispersion, microclimate), atmospheric convection, and building ventilation (stratified environments, plumes/jets, exchange flows).

Affiliated research themes: Connected Efficient Cities , Sustainable Natural Environment

Other roles: Director of Research (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)