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

Thermally compensated structural health monitoring, large-scale metal 3D printing, wire and arc additive manufacturing, numerical modelling.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching:  MEng and MSc modules on Professional Engineering Practice, Business and Project Management, Mechanics of Materials and Metals.

Interests

Measuring, analysing and modelling subsurface flow and transport processes and their associated environmental impact.

Affiliated research themes: Sustainable natural environment , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching: groundwater flow and contaminant transport

Interests

The impact of environmental change on the terrestrial water cycle, and its consequences for managing water resources and flood and drought risk.

Affiliated research themes: Sustainable natural environment , Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles: Director of MSc Hydrology and Water Resources Management ,

Interests

Developing stochastic models to describe the random fluctuations, uncertainties, mixing processes, transitions and extreme events associated with turbulence in transport.

Affiliated research themes: Sustainable natural environment , Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles:  Imperial College Research Fellow and Undergraduate Examinations Officer.

Interests

Structural testing, numerical modelling and the development of design methods for steel structures.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles:   Head of Structural Engineering (Structures)

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

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

Interests

Offshore Geotechnics, soft ground engineering, deep foundations, flood defences, constitutive behaviour and cyclic loading.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching: offshore Geotechnics and the Geotechnics main field course for MSc programme

Interests

Testing, numerical modelling and development of design guidance for steel structures, with a focus on metallic 3D printed structural members and composite cold-formed steel systems. 

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles: Director of MSc in Structural Steel Design , Admissions Tutor for Advanced Structural Engineering MSc courses , and Graduate Teaching Assistant Coordinator

Interests

Structural instability phenomena; FRP composite structures; damage mechanics.

Affiliated research themes:   Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching: Composite Structures, Dynamics of Structures, Structural Mechanics 2.

Other roles: Director and Examinations Officer for MSc Advanced Structural Engineering

Interests

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Sustainable natural environment

Other roles: Undergraduate Year 1 Coordinator

Interests

Resource recovery, greenhouse gas reduction, and enhancing human health through anaerobic biotechnologies.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching: Quantum environmental microbiology and biotechnolgy; resource recovery and environmental health improvement through anaerobic biotechnologies using meta-omics, quantum and classical AI, and energetic techniques.

Other roles: Co-Chair of Departmental EDDC Committee

Interests

Behaviour and design of structures subjected to explosions, with applications in steel structures for offshore applications as well as civil and defence.

Affiliated research themes:   Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching: Structural steel design and mitigating the effects of explosions on structures.

Interests

Flows around offshore structures and vessels, the fluid loading arising on these structures, and the subsequent assessment of structural reliability.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Interests

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment

Interests

Seismic protection, performance-based design, AI, computational modeling, extraterrestrial structures.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching:  Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, seismic design, timber & steel structures.

Other roles: Director of the MSc in Earthquake Engineering , Director of Undergraduate Admissions, and Postdoc Champion

Interests

Behaviour of soil at the grain scale, discrete element modelling, polymer support fluids, particle scale modelling of clay.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching:  Computational Methods on MEng programme and Seepage and Consolidation on MSc Geotechnical Engineering programmes. 

Other roles: Head of Geotechnics

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

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

Different applications of thermal and fluid dynamics, including geophysical flows, stratified turbulence, mixing, and energy optimisation in buildings.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching: Air-sea fluid mechanics.

Interests

Different applications of thermal and fluid dynamics, including geophysical flows, stratified turbulence, mixing, and energy optimisation in buildings.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching:   Air-sea fluid mechanics.

Interests

Structural response and design criteria of innovative cable-supported bridges, foot-, road- and railway- bridge dynamics.

Affiliated research themes:   Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching: Bridges, prestressed concrete, structural mechanics, design projects, PhD supervision.

Other roles: Director of MSc in Concrete Structures

Interests

Treatment and agronomic properties of sludges and organic wastes recycled to land and their environmental impact, including nutrients, potentially toxic elements, organic contaminants and pathogens.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Engineering net zero and beyond

Teaching: Environmental microbiology, wastewater and biodegradable solid waste treatment and management.

Other roles: Head of Environmental and Water Resource Engineering (EWRE) Section

Interests

Wngineering seismology and earthquake engineering; applications of probabilistic methods to engineering applications (Structural Reliability Theory) and applied structural dynamics.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles: Departmental Careers Advisor

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

Computational modelling of ground source energy systems, offshore foundations and urban excavations, development of advanced material models for soils, application of data-driven approaches for design optimisation, implementation of the observational method and infrastructure management.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment, Engineering net zero and beyond

Teaching: Coordinates the Year 1 MEng module on Mathematics and the MSc module Strength and Deformation.

Other roles: Departmental ICT Representative, and Director of PhD Programme

Interests

Engineering and public health challenges related to water supply and sanitation. 

Affiliated research themes: Sustainable natural environment (Theme Lead), Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles: Theme Lead for Sustainable Natural Environment and Oxfam and Water for People/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Global Sanitation Technology

Interests

Effect of climate change on geotechnical infrastructure, numerical methodologies for incorporating soil-atmosphere interaction in geotechnical analysis, engineered barriers for preventing flooding in urban areas, and isolating nuclear waste from the living environment. 

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Engineering net zero and beyond

Teaching:  Unsaturated soil mechanics.

Other roles: Director of the MSc Programme

Interests

Complex mechanics of turbulent multiphase flows in civil and environmental engineering problems, including the transport of plastics and other litter in rivers and the air-water flow hydraulics of high-head hydraulic structures.

Affiliated research themes: Sustainable natural environment , Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles: Director of MSc Fluid Mechanics programme.

Interests

Advanced laboratory testing, soil and site characterisation and field experiments that contribute to resolving geotechnical problems encountered in the near and offshore industry.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Other roles: Director and Admissions Tutor for MSc in Geotechnical Engineering

Interests

All aspects of design and analysis of reinforced concrete structures with emphasis on design for shear.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Engineering net zero and beyond

Teaching: Reinforced Concrete Design on MEng and MSc programmes.

Interests

Mathematical modelling of Instabilities within thin-walled metallic, lattice and composite structures.

Affiliated research themes: Resilient and secure built environment , Engineering net zero and beyond

Teaching:  MEng modules Mechanics and Structural Mechanics and MSc module on structural stability

Other roles: Chair of Board of Examiners (for Advanced Structural Engineering MSc Programmes )

Interests

Composite materials and technologies with exceptional performance metrics to enable the new generation of energy infrastructure to achieve Net Zero and a green transition, with applications in wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, nuclear, and hydrogen energy.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching:  MEng and MSc modules in Polymers and Polymer Composites, Assessment Monitoring and Repair of Structures, and Mechanics of Materials.

Other roles:  UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Admissions Tutor for MSc in Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure

Interests

Material characterisation techniques, development of low-carbon cements, microstructure and durability of concrete.

Affiliated research themes: Engineering net zero and beyond , Resilient and secure built environment

Teaching:  MSc Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure module 'Characterisation of Materials'.

Other roles: Manager of Materials Laboratory

Interests

Development and application of numerical methods in geotechnical design, renewable energy including wind and geothermal, lifecycle assessment of infrastructure with the changing climate, radioactive waste disposal, experimental protocols and equipment for thermo-hydro-mechanical soil characterisation.

Affiliated research themes:   Resilient and secure built environment , Engineering net zero and beyond

Teaching: MEng and MSc modules from Fundamental Soil Mechanics to Advanced Numerical Analysis and Geotechnical Design