The department hosts more than 97 members of research staff. They lead a broad and array of research and experimentation underpinning today's civil and environmental engineering practice. To find a member of research staff, choose from one of our sections below. Alternatively, you can search for a member of staff in our Directory.

List of research staff

Environment

Environmental and Water Resource Engineering (EWRE) - listed A-Z by surname

Angelina Aisopou
Daphne Jackson fellow
PhD 

Email: a.aisopou06@imperial.ac.uk

Research interests: analytical and experimental investigation of chlorine decay in operational distribution networks.

Suhad Almuktar
Project Coordinator for Community Water Management for a Liveable London (CAMELLIA)

Email: s.almuktar@imperial.ac.uk

Remit: managing the CAMELLIA programme's logistics, managing the day-to-day running of the programme, and maintaining oversight over the overall direction and objectives of the programme.

Ana Arias Calvo
Sponsored postdoctoral researcher 
BSc, MSc, PhD

Email: a.ariascalvo@imperial.ac.uk 

Research interests: development of sustainability assessments, circular economy analysis and design of alternative bio-based scenarios to advance the bioeconomy.

Emmanuel Armoah
Research Fellow

Email: e.amoah@imperial.ac.uk 

Rike Becker
Research Associate
PhD

Email: r.becker@imperial.ac.uk 

Research interests: climate change and its impact on future water availability.

Emma Beirns
Research Assistant

Email: e.beirns19@imperial.ac.uk

Research interests: identifying the genes responsible for sulfonamide degradation in Anaerobic Fluidised-bed Membrane Bio-Reactors and any association to Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer.

Stanislava Boscovic
Research Associate
PhD

Email: s.boskovic@imperial.ac.uk

Research interests: improvement of Public Health and Wellbeing in cities across EU funded projects euPOLIS and HEART; part of the Water Systems Integration research group.

Eduardo Rico Carranza
Research Assistant

Email: e.rico-carranza@imperial.ac.uk

Daniel Dias
Research Fellow

Email: d.dias@imperial.ac.uk 

Research interests: circular economy modelling and sustainability assessment.; transition into a Green Circular Economy (Green Deal) with a systemic assessment approach.

Spyridon Gkoukis
Research Associate

Email: s.gkousis@imperial.ac.uk 

SungKu Heo
Research Associate

Email: s.heo@imperial.ac.uk 

Research interests: AI application, autonomous systems, decarbonization, environmental modeling, process systems engineering.

Ben Howard
Research Associate
PhD

Email: ben.howard@imperial.ac.uk

Research interests: water-related hazards, like flooding and water pollution, in cities in the global south, with a particular focus on enabling equitable and effective adaptation.

Kyriakos Kandris
Research Fellow
PhD

Email: k.kandris@imperial.ac.uk 

Research interests: development and coding of numerical, statistical, and machine learning models for the prediction of water quality processes; development of operational decision support systems for professionals and regulators in the domain of water resources.

Eleni Koumaki
Research Fello

Email: e.koumaki@imperial.ac.uk 

Leyang Liu
Research Associate
PhD

Email: leyang.liu16@imperial.ac.uk 

    
Liliane Manny
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) postdoc mobility fellow

Email: l.manny@imperial.ac.uk

 

Nikolaos Markatos
Research Associate
PhD

Email: n.markatos@imperial.ac.uk 

Elisa Nika
Research Fellow

Email: e.nika@imperial.ac.uk  

Pepe Puchol-Salort
Hoffmann Research Associate in Water Innovation
PhD

Email: j.puchol-salort18@imperial.ac.uk

Research interests: co-creation of innovation and entrepreneurship within the water sector, aiming to identify strategic roadmaps for transformation, ensuring the equitable, efficient, safe, and accessible adoption of novel technologies for all.

Estefania Quenta Herrera
Sponsored Researcher

Email: e.quenta-herrera@imperial.ac.uk 

Research Interests: water quality, ecohydrology and ecology of mountain freshwater ecosystems, in particular streams and wetlands, to propose water conservation measures.

David Renfew
Research Associate

Email: d.renfrew@imperial.ac.uk 

Research interests: circularity and sustainability (environmental, economic, social) assessment to enhance decision making in water and bio-based resource management systems.

Thomas Rowan
Research Associate

Email: t.rowan@imperial.ac.uk
Tel:
+44 (0)20 7594 6790

Shervin Shahvi
Research Fellow
PhD

Email: s.shahvi@imperial.ac.uk 

Research interests: social and environmental improvement of product and services within their life cycle

Laure Sioné
Research Associate
PhD

Email: laure.sione09@imperial.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6789

Research interests: delivering potable water supply and sanitation in developing countries, with the aim of improving public health.  Currently working on the Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities project.

Shamas Tabraiz
Research Associate
PhD

Email: s.tabraiz@imperial.ac.uk

 

George Tsalidis
Research Fellow
PhD

Email: g.tsalidis@imperial.ac.uk 

Research interests: life cycle assessment, social-life cycle assessment, and thermochemical conversion of biomass. 

Luke Tumelty
Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) Manager

Email: ltumelty@ic.ac.uk 

Remit: Responsible for driving the development and implementation of innovative approaches to hydrology research, enabling essential science to improve the UK's resilience to hydrological extremes. 

Aly Joy Ulusoy
Research Associate
PhD

Email: aly-joy.ulusoy15@imperial.ac.uk

Research interests: development of optimal water distribution networks design and control methods for the sustainable transition of the water supply industry.

Vasileia Vasilaki
Research Fellow

Email: v.vasilaki@imperial.ac.uk 

Will Veness
Research Assistant

Email: william.veness13@imperial.ac.uk

Research interests: innovation in water monitoring systems for flood and drought resilience.

Ziyan Zhang
Research Associate
PhD

Email: ziyan.zhang14@imperial.ac.uk

Research interests: proposing a novel use of the integrated water system model to support the planning application process for new urban developments.

Senior Research Investigators, Honorary, and visiting staff

James Lau
Visitor

Email: james.lau@imperial.ac.uk 

Cedo Maksimovic
Principal Research Fellow
PhD

Email: c.maksimovic@imperial.ac.uk 

Interests: applied fluid mechanics in urban water systems, including for storm drainage and urban flooding water supply. 

Jeongha Park
Sponsored Researcher

Interests: Analysing future changes in fine-scale rainfall extremes based on stochastic rainfall model; Evaluation on UKWIR tool using CPM.

Email: j.park@imperial.ac.uk 

Ana Pitol
Sponsored Researcher

Hannah Rigby
Honorary Research Associate

Email: hannah.rigby04@imperial.ac.uk 

Interests: treatment and beneficial use of organic waste for efficient nutrient recycling while minimising environmental contamination.

Saumya Srivastava
Sponsored Researcher

Email: saumya.srivastava@imperial.ac.uk 

Hilary Stone
Visitor 

May Sule
Honorary Research Associate
PhD

Interests: addressing knowledge gaps and providing guidelines for designing water infrastructure in regions affected by water-based diseases.

Aitolkyn Uali
Sponsored Researcher

Senior Research Investigators, Honorary, and visiting staff - Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation

Ranjith Soman
Honorary Research Associate

Email: ranjithks17@imperial.ac.uk 

Interests: semantic web technologies, systems thinking, and artificial intelligence in civil infrastructure.