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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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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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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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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Shamas Tabraiz Email: s.tabraiz@imperial.ac.uk |
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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. |
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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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Estefania Quenta Herrara Interests: Water quality, ecohydrology and ecology of mountain freshwater ecosystems, in particular streams and wetlands, to propose water conservation measures. |
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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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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. |
Fluid Mechanics - listed A-Z by surname
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Barnaby Dobson Email: b.dobson@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: evaluating water infrastructure efficiency based on its impacts on river quality; breaking down traditional silos in modeling water supply, wastewater, and rivers, to create a holistic view of the water cycle. |
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Alice Handy Research Associate PhD Email: a.handy23@imperial.ac.uk |
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Jingzi Huang |
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Research interests: heterogeneity of urban fluid mechanics in canopy region; turbulent transport, mixing, entrainment; atmospheric convection. |
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Dipanjan Majumdar Email: d.majumdar@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: turbulence at the exascale with applications in urban microclimate, vegetation, air quality and wind engineering: towards building futuristic net-zero cities. |
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Paul Mannix Email: p.mannix15@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: probabilistic modelling of mixing and stratified turbulence; development of numerical methods for buoyancy driven flow; adjoint optimisation; nonlinear stability; bifurcation theory. |
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Kat Roberts |
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Research interests: schools' air quality monitoring for health and education. |
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Samuel Wood Email: s.wood@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: developing models to better understand the role that building ventilation plays in the spread of Covid-19. |
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Geotechnics - listed A-Z by surname
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Stewart Agar Email: s.agar16@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: remote Sensing and analysis of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR); currently working in collaboration with EDF Energy on development of a highly automated system for InSAR monitoring of nuclear decommissioning assets |
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Anthony Carpenter Research Assistant PhD Email: a.carpenter18@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: in collaboration with EDF, developing machine learning techniques for a bespoke remote sensing tool that will be utilised for the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of nuclear energy facilities undergoing decommissioning. |
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Dariel Hernandez-Delfin Marie Curie-Energy for Future (MSCA E4F) Individual Fellow Email: d.hernandez-delfin@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: development of a virtual particle-scale laboratory for geotechnical investigation of pile loading; Discrete Element Method (DEM), soil mechanics, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), constitutive modelling, granular matter. |
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Julia Katharina Möller |
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Francesca Palmieri Email: f.palmieri@imperial.ac.uk
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Research interests: degradation of clays during monotonic and cyclic loading conditions. |
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Agustin Ruiz Lopez |
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Rowena Stevenson |
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Research interests: development of a burrowing robot capable of measuring the mechanical and chemical properties of the surrounding soil. Teaches laboratory testing and data interpretation (MSc Geotechnical Engineering) and Geomaterials (MSc Advanced Materials). |
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Senior Research Investigators, Honorary, and visiting staff
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Professor Julian Bommer Interests: seismic hazard and risk assessment for both natural and induced earthquakes. Earthquake risk mitigation. Email: j.bommer@imperial.ac.uk |
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Jun Zhu Interests: seismic analysis and design of underground structures, site response analysis, topographic effects, and numerical methods. |
Materials - listed A-Z by surname
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Anusha Basavaraj Email: a.basavaraj@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: life cycle and sustainability assessment of concrete systems; currently working on EPSRC sponsored project 'EUREKA' to develop engineered UK clays for the production of low carbon cement. |
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Xiaodi Dai Email: x.dai@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: rheology, waste management, automation construction. |
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Samuel (Sam) Draper Email: s.draper17@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: carbon sequestration in the built environment, in particular the microstructure and durability of concretes prepared with supplementary cementitious materials. |
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Jean Noel Djobo Yankwa Email: noel.djobo@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: physical chemistry of construction materials for carbon-neutral and sustainable buildings: earthen materials, blended cement, geopolymers, alkali-activated materials, magnesia-based cement. |
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Sumesh Erikandath Email: s.erikandath24@imperial.ac.uk
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Jianhang Feng Email: j.feng@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: low-carbon cementitious materials, Fe-rich slag/clinkers, dry and wet carbonation, self-healing; currently working on a EPSRC-funded project "Cambridge Electric Cement". |
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Hafiz Muhammad Adeel Hassan Email: h.hassan@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: the thermal performance of resilient permeable concrete pavements as part of the Resilient Sustainable Infrastructures Group. |
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Caitlin Howe Email: c.howe20@imperial.ac.uk |
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Adam Mason Email: a.mason19@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: material flow analysis, life cycle assessment, environmental sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable urban design. |
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Harisankar Nellattukuzhi Sreenivasan |
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He Niu Email: h.niu@imperial.ac.uk |
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Barnaby Shanks Email: b.shanks18@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: manufacture of carbon negative construction products through mineral sequestration of CO2. |
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Senior Research Investigators, Honorary, and visiting staff
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Adria Quintanas Corominas Interests: developing new computational solutions for materials engineering challenges. |
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Tushar Mandal Email: t.mandal@imperial.ac.uk Interests: developing new phase field-based computational tools for predicting hydrogen assisted failures. |
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Alfredo Zafra García Interests: susceptibility of metals to hydrogen embrittlement. |
Structures - listed A-Z by surname
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Qili Fang Email: qili.fang14@imperial.ac.uk |
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Stanyslav Grosman Email: s.grosman15@imperial.ac.uk |
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Xi Guo Email: x.guo19@imperial.ac.uk |
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Xin Meng Email: xin.meng15@imperial.ac.uk |
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Alexandra Renouard Email: a.renouard@imperial.ac.uk |
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Christos Vlachakis Email: c.vlachakis@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: numerical and experimental analysis of permeable concrete pavements. |
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Linjie Wang Email: linjie.wang@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: identifying effective interventions to maintain bone health in lower limb amputees. |
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Ruizhi Zhang Email: ruizhi.zhang@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: testing, simulation and optimisation of metallic 3D printed structural members; Behaviour of materials under extreme conditions. |
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Senior Research Investigators, Honorary, and visiting staff
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Yutao Guo |
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Luca Modenese Email: l.modenese@imperial.ac.uk Interests: advanced dynamic analyses to understand the principles underlying human motion and motor control. |
Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling (CTEM) - listed A-Z by surname
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Ma'mon Alghananim |
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Research interests: developing a fully autonomous navigation and wayfinding system for visually impaired people, which accounts for full situational awareness. |
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Felix Feng Email: y.feng19@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: Autonomous vehicles; intelligent transportation systems; sensor fusion; deep learning. |
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Jonathan Itcovitz |
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Research interests: Modelling and validation of contrail formation and evolution; Strategies for the mitigation of contrail climate impacts. |
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Tang Li Email: tang.li16@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: Modelling the mixed traffic flow of Autonomous Vehicles and Human-Driven Vehicle, and developing novel control and management strategies with emerging technologies. |
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Leandro Parada |
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Research interests: machine Learning methods for scalable and safe autonomous driving; defence against adversarial AI threats; cooperative AI. |
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Kethan Reddy Email: k.reddy@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: evaluating & validating autonomous vehicle safety by generating edge-case scenarios and bridging the simulation-to-reality gap. Currently working on the DeepSafe Project. |
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Transport Strategy Centre - listed A-Z by surname
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Nadine Alam Email: n.alam@imperial.ac.uk |
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Richard Anderson |
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Remit: leads the Transport Strategy Centre’s initiatives in international benchmarking, currently serving over 100 metros, railways, urban bus, light rail, airports and transport authorities globally. |
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Anupriya Email: anupriya15@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: data-centric engineering for transport, creating methods at the intersection of causal inference and machine learning to enable safe, resilient and sustainable urban mobility solutions. |
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Alexander Barron |
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Remit: oversees the Community of Metros (COMET) benchmarking group, the Benchmarking Group of North American Light Rail Systems (GOAL), and the International Light Rail and Tram Benchmarking Group (BOLTS). |
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Mateo Bartra Email: mateo.bartra@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: regional and international performance benchmarking of bus and light rail. |
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Saloua Benami Email: s.benami@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: works within the international light rail and tram benchmarking group, leading its KPI and case study work programmes. |
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Fatih Canitez Email: f.canitez@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: performance management and measurement in public transport systems, urban transport policies, electric bus operations, and contracting and governance models in public bus industry. |
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Benjamin Condry Email: b.condry@imperial.ac.uk |
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Oscar Criado Domenech Email: oscar.criado@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: railway asset management, suburban rail operations and airport operations benchmarking. Currently the project manager of the Railway Infrastructure Asset Management Group. |
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Abigail Edgeworth Email: a.edgeworth@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: supporting the delivery of research and consultancy projects, with a focus on the modernisation of Transport Strategy Centre output using sophisticated analytical techniques and visualisations. |
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Nicholas Findlay Email: n.findlay@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: technical lead for big data analytics and metrics development. |
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Daniel Horcher Email: d.horcher@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: the economics of public transport supply, and statistical analysis of large-scale automated transport data. |
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David Huffaker Email: d.huffaker@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: senior Advisor to the various benchmarking groups with a focus on bus and passenger rail; particular expertise in North American transit, finance and operations. |
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Sally Kao Email: y.kao@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: project Manager of the Community of Metros (COMET), leading data analytics of the group and also involved in case studies on various topics. |
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Liang Ma Email: liang.ma13@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: big data applications in transport and urban planning, including studies on job-housing balance, spatial-temporal individual behaviours, relationships between road traffic and land use pattern, etc. |
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Vishnu Mohanakumar Jaya |
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Research interests: mixed-methods research on public transport, primarily metros & buses; urban systems, political economy, customer satisfaction, climate change and sustainabil |
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Lindsey Morse Email: l.morse@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: project Co-Director of the American Bus Benchmarking Group and Benchmarking Group of North American Light Rail Systems. |
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Deborah Mundy Email: d.mundy@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: international benchmarking (metros, suburban railways, buses), public transport performance analysis and benchmarking, transport planning, and urban planning. |
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Carmen Oleksinski Email: c.oleksinski@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: benchmarking of transit systems around the world, particularly in the areas of Key Performance Indicators, station design, and customer satisfaction. |
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Tim Powell |
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Henry Reynolds |
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John Sing-Key Email: john.sing-key@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: benchmarking analytics for the International Bus Benchmarking Group (IBBG) and the American Bus Benchmarking Group (ABBG). |
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Alice Saunders |
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Remit: research for the Community of Metros (COMET) benchmarking group, which consists of over 40 global metro organisations. |
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Mark Trompet Email: m.trompet@imperial.ac.uk |
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Remit: bus benchmarking program manager for the International Bus Benchmarking Group and the American Bus Benchmarking Group. |
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Haobo Yang Email: h.yang@imperial.ac.uk |
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Raphael Yzopt Email: raphael.yzopt@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: benchmarking and the diffusion of best practices of different public transport consortia, with a particular focus on GOAL, a forum for light rail agencies in the United States and Canada. |
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Nan Zhang Email: nan.zhang16@imperial.ac.uk |
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Research interests: data-centric engineering in public transport, including research on metro resilience, asset failures and disruption management. |
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Nils Goldbeck Email: n.goldbeck14@imperial.ac.uk Interests: how interdependencies between urban infrastructure systems affect their resilience against disruptions, like extreme weather events. |
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Simon Hu Email: j.s.hu05@imperial.ac.uk Interests: smart urban transport systems, traffic micro-simulation modelling, vehicle emission monitoring, and airport air quality management. |
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Rajesh Krishnan Email: rajesh.k@imperial.ac.uk Interests: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), traffic sensors, real-time and offline analysis and use of transport data, and traffic control. |
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Charilaos Latinopoulos Interests: Analysis of electric vehicle recharging behavior and development of business models for parking and charging services. |
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Kenta Matsui Interests: fleet management algorithms for autonomous mining dump trucks. |
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Nick Molden Email: n.molden@imperial.ac.uk |
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Ali Niknejad Interests: maritime transport; vessel chartering optimisation; supply chain risk management. |
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Roger Teoh Interests: aviation and climate change, with the aim to evaluate and mitigate the climate impact of aviation emissions and contrail cirrus. Email: roger.teoh15@imperial.ac.uk |
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Jorge Varela Barreras Email: j.varela-barreras@imperial.ac.uk Interests: batteries and their applications in e-mobility and energy storage, working on design, modeling, testing, smart charging, and management systems |
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Chenyang Wu Email: c.wu15@imperial.ac.uk Interests: batteries and their applications in e-mobility and energy storage, working on design, modeling, testing, smart charging, and management systems |