Experts

 

Energy

  • Dr Christopher Wood

    Renewable energy systems. Novel ground source heat pump systems. Energy efficient heating systems and building energy simulation. Harnessing and storing solar heat. Low energy building design.
    +44 (0) 115 846 7673
    Energy Engineering energy Renewable heat efficient solar power low energy

  • Dr Mike Clifford

    Fluid mixing. Dynamical systems. Parametric excitation. Appropriate technology. Composite materials. Engineering of bungee jumping.
    +44 (0) 115 846 6134
    Energy Engineering Engineering Fluid Dynamical Systems parametric excitation composite material bungee jumping

  • Professor Seamus Garvey

    Rotordynamics. Rotor balancing. Vibration and noise in electrical machines and structures. High speed machines. Magnetic bearings. Electromagnetic design of machines.
    +44 (0) 115 951 3776
    Energy Engineering Engineering Rotordynamics Rotor vibration noise high speed machines Magnetic bearings electromagnetics

  • Professor Pat Wheeler

    Power Electronics and Electrical Machine Drives for Transportation Electronification, the More/All Electric Aircraft and the connection of renewable energy to the electrical utility network as well as micro-grids for rural communities.
    07963 290871
    Energy Engineering

  • Professor Edward Lester

    Coal combustion. Coal petrography and identification of world coals. Image analysis of particulates. Characterisation of biomass particularly with regards to energy conversion and the power sector.
    +44 (0) 115 951 4974 , +44 (0) 115 939 5715
    Energy Engineering Coal Combustion Petrography power energy biomass

  • Dr Faith Chan

    Dr Faith Ka Shun Chan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo campus, China. He currently conducts research on international water management practices, with a particularly focus on flood risk management in East Asian mega-deltas and coastal mega-cities.. He has a strong research and teaching interests on inter-disciplinary aspects on environmental management across physical and human geography, in particular on issues related to sustainable water and soil management and development.
    +86-18867859622
    Energy Environment Science Governance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) urban flood resilience coastal megacities; climate change urban water management sponge city green finance

  • Professor Pau Loke Show

    Microalgae have recently attracted considerable interest worldwide, due to their extensive application potential in the renewable energy, biopharmaceutical, and nutraceutical industries. Microalgae are renewable, sustainable, and economical sources of biofuels, bioactive medicinal products, and food ingredients.
    +60102250322
    Belt and Road Initiative Energy Engineering Environment Science agriculture biosciences life sciences pharmaceutical Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Water

  • Professor Lucelia Rodrigues

    My expertise is in sustainability and resilience in buildings and communities, and I have worked across the globe including China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.
    Architecture and Built Environment Energy Environment Governance Sustainable development goals

  • Dr Marwan Nafea

    My research areas include MEMS, micro/nanofabrication technologies, wireless microfluidic devices, microactuators, 4D printing, PSO, optimal control, and biosignals.
    +60 38924 8168
    Energy Engineering Science MEMS 4D printing Wireless drug delivery Microfluidics Microactuators Microfabrication Optimization EEG ECG

  • Dr Khai Ching Ng

    My expertise is in developing novel simulation techniques for solving computational fluid and solid multi-physics problems (e.g. CFD, FEA). Main applications include free surface flow, energy harvesting, Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) etc.
    Energy Engineering Environment Science Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI); Free surface flow; Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) meshless method particle method Software Development parallel computing

  • Dr Jie Zhu

    1) Chinese energy policy study 2) Chinese building regulation assessment
    8466141
    Architecture and Built Environment Energy Engineering Environment

  • Dr John Calautit

    Sustainable design of building and urban environment.
    07802685370
    Architecture and Built Environment Energy Engineering Environment energy modelling comfort air quality

  • Dr Christina Chin

    I have a wide range multi and interdisciplinary knowledge in project engineering management for sustainability & environmental impact industries, methodologies and energy management related aspect including green technology, security, and storage.
    Belt and Road Initiative Energy Environment Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • Professor Michele Geraci

    15 years experience in China/Asia policy research, first as head of China at Global Policy Institute London, then head of China Economic Research af Nottingham Uni, Ningbo. Advised western Governments on China policy, trade policy, international relations, china-Eu, China-US relations, China-EU investment agreement.
    +86 139 6712 1554
    Belt and Road Initiative Business and economy China Energy Environment International Relations Migration Politics Trade War and security Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agriculture human rights

  • Professor Peter Ling

    Gandhian nonviolence. My expertise is on Martin Luther King but this has entailed understanding Gandhi's influence. Indian reaction to the JFK assassination.
    0778 9374329
    Energy History International Relations Politics Sociology World human rights Identity and Rights

  • Professor Robert Jones

    Solid and Liquid surfaces in ultra-high vacuum. Surface techniques generally, low energy electron diffraction (LEED), ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARUPS or ARPES), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), work function measurements, temperature programmed desorption (TPD). Ultra-high vacuum technology. Surface reactivity and kinetics. Developing new methods involving "line of sight mass spectrometry" techniques, imaging gas analysers and imaging mass spectrometry. Surface structure research. Developing and using synchrotron based methods, particularly X-ray Standing Wave (XSW) analysis, Normal Incidence X-ray Standing Wave Analysis (NIXSW), variable period X-ray standing wave analysis (VPXSW) and near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS). Interface systems studied include Solid/Liquid and Liquid/Gas interfaces. Adsorption/absorption of solute molecules at these surfaces. Self assembly at surfaces. Gas capture of CO2, SO2 and others by ionic liquids. Solid surfaces include metal single crystal surfaces such as: Cu(111), Cu(110), Cu(100), Au(111), Au(110), Ni(111), Ni(100), Al(100), Cr(100) and semiconductor surfaces such as Si(100), InSb(001). Adsorbates include small molecules (water, acetone,methanol, ethanol, SO2, etc.), halogens (Cl2, Br2, I2), halocarbons (CCl4, CHCl3, dichoroethane, CF3I, etc.), thiols and disulfides (CH3SH, CH3SSCH3 and others). Ionic liquids used to form liquid interfaces include imidazoliums, pyrrolidiniums, phosphoniums and other cations paired with tetrafluoroborate, hexafluorophosphate, bi[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]-imide, and other anions.
    +44 (0) 115 951 3468
    Chemistry Energy Science chemistry Science surface Surface Structure

  • Dr Hafez Abdo

    Specialist in accounting and taxation of the extractive industries with special focus on the oil and gas industry. Has also researched and done media commentary on energy policy topics.
    0115 7487570
    Business and economy Energy accounting Taxation Energy Policy oil gas extractive industries UK energy policy Regulations

  • Dr Muhammad Shafiullah

    I have expertise in trade, energy, and economic growth in South Asia.
    01112818512
    Business and economy Energy Trade

  • Dr Luke Emeka Okafor

    Economic issues that relate to international trade, regional connectivity, digital transformation, tourism economics, development process, and industrial organization with a specific focus on how firms, industries, and countries respond to globalization and shocks. This includes investigating the interplay between digitalization, economic resilience, and performance as well as COVID-19 effects on firms, industries, and economies.
    +6 (03) 8725 3716
    Belt and Road Initiative Business and economy Cultures Education Energy Environment Gender Migration Trade Corruption Governance human rights Identity and Rights Sustainable development goals

  • Roderick MacKenzie

    Solar energy; advanced materials; computer modelling
    07802347629
    Energy Engineering Technology Solar energy; advanced materials; computer modelling

  • Professor Colin Snape

    Energy generally; decarbonisation; fossil energy - coal, oil and gas; carbon capture and storage; waste conversion - hydrothermal carbonisation.
    0115 951 14166
    Energy Engineering fracking energy shale gas shale resource Fossil fuels fossil fuel fossil energy coal oil gas carbon capture storage waste conversion hydrothermal carbonisation

  • Dr Frederico Municchi

    Energy Engineering Food Mathematics Technology

  • Dr Rachel Gomes

    Adaptive bioprocessing looking at sustainable resource use towards wastewater treatment and chemical processes, with a particular focus on bioactive chemicals.
    +44 (0) 115 846 8883
    Energy Engineering Engineering Manufacturing technology Research bioprocessing sustainable waste treatment chemicals Bioactive

  • Dr Will Meredith

    My background is in petroleum geochemistry and environmental science, with research interests in oil generation and biodegradation, together with fate of carbon in the environment.
    0115 7486410
    Energy Engineering fracking carbon Low carbon petroleum geochemistry petroleum Geochemistry oil oil generation environmental science oil biodegradation biodegradation shale gas shale resource

  • Professor Michael Symonds

    Obesity. Brown adipose tissue and its role in energy balance. White adipose tissue. Nutrition in pregnancy and early life. Environmental influences on energy balance.
    +44 (0) 115 823 0610
    Energy Health and Medicine medical medicine Obesity nutrition pregnancy EARLY LIFE energy enviroment

  • Professor Paul Greenhaff

    Regulation of nutrient delivery/availability and energy production in skeletal muscle and the significance this has on muscle growth and function during exercise in health and disease.
    +44 (0) 115 823 0133
    Energy Science biology Skeleton muscle exercise health diseases

  • Professor Gavin Walker

    Hydrogen systems in particular hydrogen storage technology, including the preparation and processing of novel materials, materials characterisation and materials testing. Nanostructured materials.
    +44 (0) 115 951 3752
    Energy Engineering Engineering Materials testing Hydrogen

  • Dr Blasie Mempouo

    Sustainable development including environmental issues and affordable eco-housing and sustainable energy in Africa, China and the UK.
    +44 (0) 115 846 7132 , +44 (0) 7427 336 275
    Energy Engineering Engineering sustainable Environmental affordable Housing eco-houses energy Africa China uk

  • Dr Miquel Gimeno-Fabra

    Energy Engineering Propulsion Futures Technology

  • Professor Saffa Riffat

    Renewable energy and energy efficient systems. Air quality and pollution. Building environment. Refrigeration. Air conditioning. Heat pumps. Absorption systems. Ventilation.
    +44 (0) 115 951 3158
    Energy Engineering Engineering energy efficient air quality pollution Environment building refrigerators air conditioning heat pumps ventilation

  • Lan Xia

    88180000-8040 / 18142049906
    Energy Engineering Science Lithium ion batteries] electrolyte solvents electrolyte additives for batteries

  • Professor Chris Gerada

    Energy Engineering Propulsion Futures Technology

  • Professor Mark Gillott

    Sustainable and renewable energy technologies, energy efficient systems and building/architecture. Air quality, ventilation and pollution. Refrigeration, heat pumps and air conditioning. Intelligent building monitoring and controls.
    +44 (0) 115 846 7677
    Architecture and Built Environment Energy Engineering Engineering sustainable Renewable technology architecture building pollution air quality

  • Dr Maximilian Mayer

    Expert in the global governance of science, innovation, and technology; China's foreign and energy policy and International Relations theories. Current research is focused on digital infrastructures and emerging global digital orders in Eurasia. Dr Mayer leads the Research Priority Group on Global Technologies and Political Order at the Global Institute for Silk Road Studies.
    +86 574 8818 8285
    Belt and Road Initiative Energy International Relations Politics Foreign Policy Energy Policy China Taiwan Hong Kong North Korea International Relations Theories Belt and Road Initiative

  • Dr Jee-Hou Ho

    Vibration energy harvesting, mechatronics and robotics.
    +60 3892 48119
    Energy Engineering Vibration energy harvesting Mechatronics Robotics Malaysia Asia

  • Dr Clare Burrage

    Investigations into Dark Energy and it's potential role in the expansion of the Universe.
    +44 (0)115 8467903/07733 361609
    Energy Physics Science astronomy dark energy universe galaxies Space Science Physics

  • Professor Michèle Clarke

    The environment, climate and ecology of the Asia-Pacific region for the last 30 years, including the complexity of their interactions with society, heritage and cultures. Recent themes have included agriculture and rural development; cultural and built heritage; low carbon and clean energy; rapid urbanisation and sustainable cities; and the energy-water-food nexus.
    0115 951 5446
    Archaeology Architecture and Built Environment Cultures Education Energy Engineering Environment Gender History Migration Science Veterinary climate society sustainable development energy ecosystems Cities Water agriculture heritage Asia

  • Dr Alison Mohr

    Dr Mohr's research focuses on the interface between energy, the environment and society
    +44 (0)115 846 8151
    Energy Environment World energy Environment and Society public engagement community engagemenet Developing Countries society fuel energy technologies policy

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