Dr Rupert J. Myers

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Materials Engineering

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 8174r.myers Website

Location

Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Rupert J. Myers is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Materials Engineering at Imperial College London.

He has worked across various engineering/science disciplines and locations, from Australia (Uni. of Melbourne), to the United States (UC Berkeley, Yale, MIT), and to Europe (EMPA, Uni. of Edinburgh, ICL).

Rupert's research and teaching focuses on driving reductions in environmental impacts and the development of sustainable engineering practice. He specifically targets construction materials that are hugely important to society, notably cementitious materials (cement, concrete, etc.), and the services/products that they provide, e.g., shelter/buildings, infrastructure, and cities.

Outstanding prospective PhD students and postdocs that are passionate about sustainability, science/engineering, and materials are encouraged to get in touch by email with their CV attached. PhD projects are continually available, on topics shown here and listed below:

Modelling use of materials and energy throughout society and related scenario/policy analysis, e.g., to identify environmentally beneficial technologies (industrial ecology, data engineering)
Using thermodynamics to fundamentally understand environmentally beneficial/harmful materials, e.g., properties of cement binders with low CO₂ emissions, persistence of toxic chemicals (materials science, chemistry)
Assessment and characterisation of natural and anthropogenic resources for environmentally beneficial use, e.g., industrial by-products (industrial ecology, materials science)

Rupert is available for consultancy and public/media engagement on the topics above and related areas, such as industrial decarbonisation, circular economy, sustainable construction, novel construction materials, low carbon cement and concrete, etc.

Publications

Journals

Shah I, Miller S, Jiang D, et al.Shah I, Miller S, Jiang D, Myers R close, 2022, Cement substitution with secondary materials can reduce annual global CO2 emissions by up to 1.3 gigatons, Nature Communications, Vol:13, ISSN:2041-1723

Mason AR, Gathorne-Hardy A, White C, et al.Mason AR, Gathorne-Hardy A, White C, Plancherel Y, Woods J, Myers RJ close, 2022, Resource requirements for ecosystem conservation: A combined industrial and natural ecology approach to quantifying natural capital use in nature, Ecology and Evolution, Vol:12, ISSN:2045-7758

Morley JD, Myers RJ, Plancherel Y, et al.Morley JD, Myers RJ, Plancherel Y, Brito-Parada PR close, 2022, A Database for the Stocks and Flows of Sand and Gravel, Resources-basel, Vol:11

Titirici M, Baird SG, Sparks TD, et al.Titirici M, Baird SG, Sparks TD, Yang SM, Brandt-Talbot A, Hosseinaei O, Harper DP, Parker RM, Vignolini S, Berglund LA, Li Y, Gao H-L, Mao L-B, Yu S-H, Diez N, Ferrero GA, Sevilla M, Szilagyi PA, Stubbs CJ, Worch JC, Huang Y, Luscombe CK, Lee K-Y, Luo H, Platts MJ, Tiwari D, Kovalevskiy D, Fermin DJ, Au H, Alptekin H, Crespo-Ribadeneyra M, Ting VP, Fellinger T-P, Barrio J, Westhead O, Roy C, Stephens IEL, Nicolae SA, Sarma SC, Oates RP, Wang C-G, Li Z, Loh XJ, Myers RJ, Heeren N, Gregoire A, Perisse C, Zhao X, Vodovotz Y, Earley B, Finnveden G, Bjorklund A, Harper GDJ, Walton A, Anderson PA close, 2022, The sustainable materials roadmap, Journal of Physics: Materials, Vol:5, ISSN:2515-7639, Pages:1-98

Morley JD, Myers RJ, Plancherel Y, et al.Morley JD, Myers RJ, Plancherel Y, Brito-Parada PR close, 2022, A Database for the Extraction, Trade, and Use of Sand and Gravel (Retraction of Vol 11, art no 38, 2022), Resources-basel, Vol:11

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