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
Environmental and Water Resource Engineering (EWRE) - listed A-Z by surname
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Angelina Aisopou Email: a.aisopou06@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: analytical and experimental investigation of chlorine decay in operational distribution networks. |
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Suhad Almuktar Email: s.almuktar@imperial.ac.uk |
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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. |
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Ana Arias Calvo Email: a.ariascalvo@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: development of sustainability assessments, circular economy analysis and design of alternative bio-based scenarios to advance the bioeconomy. |
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Emmanuel Armoah Email: e.amoah@imperial.ac.uk |
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Rike Becker Email: r.becker@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: climate change and its impact on future water availability. |
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Emma Beirns Email: e.beirns19@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: identifying the genes responsible for sulfonamide degradation in Anaerobic Fluidised-bed Membrane Bio-Reactors and any association to Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer. |
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Stanislava Boscovic Email: s.boskovic@imperial.ac.uk |
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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. |
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Eduardo Rico Carranza |
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Daniel Dias Email: d.dias@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: circular economy modelling and sustainability assessment.; transition into a Green Circular Economy (Green Deal) with a systemic assessment approach. |
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Spyridon Gkoukis Email: s.gkousis@imperial.ac.uk |
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SungKu Heo Email: s.heo@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: AI application, autonomous systems, decarbonization, environmental modeling, process systems engineering. |
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Ben Howard Email: ben.howard@imperial.ac.uk |
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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. |
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Kyriakos Kandris Email: k.kandris@imperial.ac.uk |
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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. |
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Eleni Koumaki Email: e.koumaki@imperial.ac.uk |
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Leyang Liu Email: leyang.liu16@imperial.ac.uk |
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Email: l.manny@imperial.ac.uk |
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Nikolaos Markatos Email: n.markatos@imperial.ac.uk |
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Elisa Nika Email: e.nika@imperial.ac.uk |
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Pepe Puchol-Salort |
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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. |
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Estefania Quenta Herrera |
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Research Interests: water quality, ecohydrology and ecology of mountain freshwater ecosystems, in particular streams and wetlands, to propose water conservation measures. |
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David Renfew Email: d.renfrew@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: circularity and sustainability (environmental, economic, social) assessment to enhance decision making in water and bio-based resource management systems. |
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Thomas Rowan Email: t.rowan@imperial.ac.uk |
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Shervin Shahvi Email: s.shahvi@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: social and environmental improvement of product and services within their life cycle |
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Laure Sioné Email: laure.sione09@imperial.ac.uk |
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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. |
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Shamas Tabraiz Email: s.tabraiz@imperial.ac.uk
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George Tsalidis Email: g.tsalidis@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: life cycle assessment, social-life cycle assessment, and thermochemical conversion of biomass. |
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Luke Tumelty Email: ltumelty@ic.ac.uk |
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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. |
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Aly Joy Ulusoy |
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Research interests: development of optimal water distribution networks design and control methods for the sustainable transition of the water supply industry. |
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Vasileia Vasilaki Email: v.vasilaki@imperial.ac.uk |
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Will Veness |
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Research interests: innovation in water monitoring systems for flood and drought resilience. |
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Ziyan Zhang Email: ziyan.zhang14@imperial.ac.uk |
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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
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James Lau Email: james.lau@imperial.ac.uk |
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Cedo Maksimovic Email: c.maksimovic@imperial.ac.uk Interests: applied fluid mechanics in urban water systems, including for storm drainage and urban flooding water supply. |
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Jeongha Park 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 |
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Ana Pitol |
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Hannah Rigby Email: hannah.rigby04@imperial.ac.uk Interests: treatment and beneficial use of organic waste for efficient nutrient recycling while minimising environmental contamination. |
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Saumya Srivastava |
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Hilary Stone |
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May Sule Interests: addressing knowledge gaps and providing guidelines for designing water infrastructure in regions affected by water-based diseases. |
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Aitolkyn Uali |
Senior Research Investigators, Honorary, and visiting staff - Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation
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Ranjith Soman Email: ranjithks17@imperial.ac.uk Interests: semantic web technologies, systems thinking, and artificial intelligence in civil infrastructure. |