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Hadi Arbabi, University of Sheffield
Hadi is a lecturer at the University of Sheffield where his work and research interests sit at the interface of data-driven urban analytics and planning. His previous work has focused on a spatially multi-scale examination of urban systems and the extent to which their performance is influenced by their embedded mobility infrastructure. Hadi’s broader research activity and interests include but are not limited to practical uses of urban scaling and allometry, city morphology, infrastructure planning for agglomeration, network analysis of intra- and inter-city urban flows, and building stocks and urban metabolism.
Deepak Arunachalam, University of Leeds
I am an early career researcher with expertise in industry 4.0 technologies such as Blockchain, IoT, and data science. I am interested in the research topic of Blockchain and low carbon mobility services.
Zahara Batool, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Zahara is a human factors and road safety expert (with a background in transportation engineering) at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds. Her research portfolio can be broadly split into two distinct themes. The first relates to integration of human factors (particularly related to attitudes, personality) in transport to influence and bring behavioural change. The second is related to social and cultural dimensions in transport. More recently, her research interests have shifted to understand interactions between transport, health and its impacts on physical, emotional and social well-being.
Luke Blazejewski, University of Salford
Dr Luke Blazejewski is a researcher based in the Healthy Active Cities research group at the University of Salford. He has published extensively on sustainable and active travel behaviour, with an emphasis on micromobilities, including a DecarboN8-funded study into e-cargo bike use. He is a member of the Dott Safety Advisory Board, which works with the micromobilities sector in Europe to advise on road safety policy. Healthy Active Cities was formed in 2018 after publishing the first large-scale study of dockless bike-share schemes in the UK. The interdisciplinary team develops transport focused research in the Greater Manchester area and beyond.
Burak Boyaci, Lancaster University
Burak Boyaci is a senior lecturer at Lancaster University Management Science Department and an active member of the Centre for Transport and Logistics (CENTRAL). His area of expertise is modelling and solving large-scale optimisation problems by using linear programming and other operational research tools. He has particular interest on problems from the area of logistics and transportation, specifically, shared and public transport planning and air and freight transport operations. His current work is focused on the areas of carsharing, public transport planning under the concept of mobility-as-a-service, airline scheduling, waste routing, and resource constraint project scheduling.
Llinos Brown, University of Leeds
I am currently working on a longitudinal research project which applies mixed methods (interviews and panel surveys) to examine the impact COVID19 is having on transport and travel behaviours. It also investigates how behaviours change over time, and across different geographical locations. Previous research involved examining how energy is used in organisations and how employees interact with energy systems. My research interests lie around gaining an understanding of the social side of energy and transport systems, with the aim of understanding behaviours better to enable us to transition to a low carbon society.
Katharina Burger, University of Bristol
I am a Lecturer in Management in the Operations and Management Science Group at the University of Bristol. My research interests are Behavioural Operational Research, Sustainable Urban Transitions and Participatory Methods. Currently, I am the Theme Lead for the Cabot Institute’s City Futures Research theme, which aims to help cities to better understand the complex challenges they face, and support their transition to becoming sustainable, resilient and inclusive places with a high quality of life for all. My current research projects focuses on intra-peak demand shifting behaviours among commuters together with transportation solutions company Esoterix Systems.
Noel Cass, University of Leeds
I am a researcher focussing on the social and political aspects of energy systems and everyday life. I have researched areas including environmental audits of organisations, tourism and travel, everyday life and travel practices, public engagement with renewable energy technologies, the ethical implications of nuclear power and options for radioactive waste management, the social exclusion implications of transport policies on congestion and climate change, climate change policy in local authorities in the UK, the energy demands of the built environment, later focussing on office building designs, and the implications of changing office work practices. My research has also focussed on everyday travel, how it is demanded by the social practices in which people are invlved, and how how digital technologies can reduce transport-related social exclusion in the older population. My current position involves researching how the roll-out of Electric Vehicles can be more equitable, and a qualitative exploration of how and why some households consume high amounts of energy in the home and through travel.
Eric Chan, University of Greenwich
Eric Chan is a Lecturer in Transport and Logistics Management at University of Greenwich, he holds a DPhil in Geography from University of Oxford, and MPhil and BA from University of Hong Kong. Before joining University of Greenwich, he worked in Newcastle University and The Alan Turing Institute as Research Associate for an Innovate UK funded project on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) integration. His current research focuses on built environment, sustainable transport, and well-being. He has published in academic journals in the fields of transportation, geography, and tourism.
Rebecca Collins, University of Chester
I am a geographer with primary research interests in transitions towards sustainable lifestyles at the household and community level. I am currently co-leading a national study investigating where and in what form ‘green shoots’ for local green recoveries might be emerging during and between phases of covid-19 lockdown. A key dimension of this concerns the relationship between re-localised mobilities and re-localised economies. In the context of these sandpits I am particularly interested in formulating projects exploring the challenges of decarbonising the multi-part journeys of individuals (usually women) with caring and provisioning responsibilities.
Simon Cook, Birmingham City University
I am a human geographer interested in everyday mobile practices: the ways in which they happen, how they change, and what they can tell us about societies and spaces. My research has focussed on running-commuting and post-collision cycling practices – approaching them qualitatively to understand how these practices commence, sustain and fall apart. I am interested in the introduction of e-scooters to UK cities and how social acceptability may affect the practice and its contribution to decarbonising transport. Specifically, I am keen to examine the evolution of e-scooter practices in trial and non-trial areas from the perspectives of different stakeholder groups.
Matthew Cotton, Teesside University
Matthew Cotton is Professor of Public Policy at Teesside University. He researches a range of energy policy issues as they relate to infrastructure networks and public behaviour change. He is currently working on projects with Northern Gas Networks on hydrogen transition, FCDO on electricity access, and ESRC on agricultural energy systems. He is happy to contribute to policy assessment, public perceptions and stakeholder engagement elements across a range of low carbon transport projects.
Fiona Crawford, University of the West of England
Fiona is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Transport and Society. She has degrees in mathematics (BSc) and social policy (MA) and is currently studying part-time towards an MSc in data science. Her interests include examining variability in transport network usage and in traveller behaviour using data from emerging data sources. During her PhD she developed methods for analysing data from Bluetooth detectors in Greater Manchester to examine travellers’ repeated trip behaviour, including spatial and time of day variability. She has also published research examining changing working patterns and the impacts on commuting behaviour in the National Travel Survey.
Nick Davies, Glasgow Caledonian University
Dr Nick Davies 15 years’ experience researching sustainable transport and voluntary travel behavioural change. He lectures at Glasgow Caledonian University and is a member of Healthy Active cities research group at University of Salford. He has delivered research on walking and cycling for the European Parliament and Commission, many UK national and local governments and national parks. He is particularly interested in the relationship between active travel for pleasure and utility, including work-based active travel. Most recently, he co-authored a Decarbon8 funded report on the potential to use e-cargo bikes for delivery work as an alternative to cars and vans.
Amjad Fayoumi, Lancaster University Management School
Dr. Fayoumi is a Lecturer in Enterprise Information Systems and a leader of the Advanced Manufacturing, and Intelligent Transportations Themes at the Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Research Centre (LiRA). He is also an Enterprise Architect by training and by trade. He has worked on several multi-million-pound projects. Prior to joining Lancaster University, he worked as a researcher on EPSRC project ‘Cloud Manufacturing’ and the FP7 Designing for Adaptability and Evolution in System of Systems Engineering ‘DANSE’ project. In addition to holding certifications from several technology providers such as IBM and SAP, he worked previously in industry as a technology and process re-engineering expert specialised in requirements and complex adaptive systems modelling and simulation.
Roland Getor, University of Hull
Researcher with PhD in Labour Economics focusing on worklessness (unemployment and economic inactivity) related issues with emphasis on the role social networks play in helping workless individuals engage with the labour market. Latest project involved researching into sustainable/closed loop supply chains for plastics as part of the UKRI funded Interdisciplinary “Evolving a Circular Plastics Economy Project”. Previously worked on Green Port Hull’s Renewable Energy Sector focused “Socio-Economic and Environmental Impact Assessment of the Siemens-Gamesa/Associated British Ports (ABP) Hull Wind Turbine Investment and Review of Green Port strategies to develop a sustainable renewables industry in Hull and East Riding”.
Paul Goodman, Newcastle University
I’ve been a fixed-term lecturer in Intelligent Transport Systems at Newcastle University since 2019, and prior to that as a researcher, I’ve been involved in numerous UK and EU funded projects, many with an environmental slant, since the late 1990s. For DecarboN8 I’ve a specific interest in transport in the North East of England, with our unique mix of urban conurbations, surrounded by large, sparsely-populated rural hinterlands. We’re also looking to expand our electrification and hydrogen potentials for both passenger and freight movements in the region, by both road and rail modes.
Gary Graham, University of Leeds
The work we do is passionate about rolling out new shared models of mobility within cities and the deployment of advanced technology (innovations) to improve access and participation. To lower inequality and improve access. Furthermore to use data traces to improve service provision. We have deployed problem structuring and design methods to work towards viable and sustainable bicycle sharing deployment models with the UN in the UK, Africa and Mexico. The objective is to look at how we can reduce carbon emission through equitable shard models of transport provision. Further to use the technology to improve service accessibility and maintenance. The focus is on local pilot schemes which then can be scaled up with bigger implementation targets. Ultimately we aim to build a low carbon social ecology framework within cities as espoused in the visionary work of Nobel Prize winner Elinor OStrom
Paul Greenhalgh, Northumbria University
Paul is Professor of Real Estate and Regeneration and Head of Built Environment at Northumbria University. He founder of the URBaNE research group and R3intelligence consultancy and curator of the North East Regeneration Archive (NERA). His research interest cover commercial real estate markets, sustainable urban development, smart and future cities. Paul is widely published both in academic and professional circles and is currently involved in research and consultancy projects that explore the potential to use big data, Geographic Information Systems and city information models to inform urban planning and transport strategies.
Haitao He, Loughborough University
I am a Lecturer in urban mobility at Loughborough University. I use a broad range of innovative data-driven techniques fusing traditional and emerging data to understand and predict how people use and interact with the built environment, especially mobility systems. These fundamental insights are applied in my research to quantitatively examine how to empower multimodal urban mobility and address challenges in its efficiency, resilience, and sustainability. Findings of my research have offered critical data and digital tools for mobility providers to design, plan, and operate transport infrastructure and services that can better meet mobility demand and ultimately shape travel behaviour.
Ahmed Kheiri, Lancaster University
Dr Ahmed Kheiri is a Lecturer in Management Science (Operations Research) at Lancaster University Management School, Department of Management Science. He received his B.Sc. (Hons – First Class) from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and received his M.Sc. (Distinction) and PhD. from the University of Nottingham, UK. He held research positions at the University of Exeter, and the Cardiff School of Mathematics in Wales. His research interests lie at the intersection of operational research and computer science, investigating flexible and general cross domain optimisation methods to solve NP-hard optimisation problems.
Jaise Kuriakose, University of Manchester
Jaise Kuriakose is an expert in greenhouse gas accounting and energy system modelling. Prior to his PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Manchester in 2016, Jaise worked in the industry for 10 years focusing on renewable energy and power distribution systems. Jaise has a strong track record of working at the boundaries of research and practice, collaborating with various local/regional governments in the UK to develop carbon budgets and targets that align with the Paris Agreement; five UK cities/regions have formally adopted targets based on his work which has influenced a further 250 local authorities.
Gill Lacey, Teesside University
Dr. Gillian Lacey (Senior Lecturer Electrical Engineering, Teesside University) A member of the IEEE since 2012, Dr Lacey received a PhD from the electrical engineering department of Northumbria University in 2015. She is a contributing author of one book, has published 10 papers and has contributed to several projects around e-mobility in the UK and NSR of Europe. Since June 2017 she has worked as a lecturer in Teesside University, focussing on Smart Grid and the effect of EV charging on networks. Research interests are V2G and the effect of smart charging on EV batteries, battery degradation and EV batteries for power storage to optimise renewable generation at the LV network level.
Hu Li, University of Leeds
I have been doing research on emissions from engines and vehicles for decades. Alternative fuels and real world driving emissions are two of my core research areas. I have accumulated a lot of experience on the research of hybrid vehicles and low carbon fuels including biofuels and hydrogen.
Xiao Lin, University of York
Xiao Lin is currently a Lecturer in Operations Management at the York Management School, University of York. Prior to joining York Management School, Xiao Lin was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. Before that, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark.
She obtained her MSc and PhD in Logistics and Operations Management from Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK. Her research was mainly concerned with the socio-technical transition in sustainable mobility. She is a reviewer of the journals including Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Transportation Research Part A, etc.
Kadambari Lokesh, University of Leeds
I’m a DecarboN8 Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies. I obtained my PhD in Aerospace from Cranfield University (2012-2015) with my multi-disciplinary work focusing on the techno-economic environmental risk analysis of biofuels for civil aero-engines. Drawing on my research interests in area of travel demand’s contribution to climate change, barriers to reaching climate targets, land-use impacts set against the backdrop of nationally-set carbon targets, my research activities are targeted at evaluating transport infrastructure emissions. Recent trends in mobility, attributed to the Covid-19 travel restrictions, has piqued my interest in understanding its impacts on public perception of a health risk, essential and non-essential travel, resulting travel choices, the causation factors and subsequently, what the future will look like for travel recovery.
Simon Mair, University of Bradford
Simon is an Ecological Economist. He uses a wide range of methods to explore the political economy of sustainability. This has included using input-output models to quantitatively explore links between wages and carbon emissions in global supply chains; participative systems mapping to explore links between energy, wellbeing and productivity in the UK; and literary criticism to explore how utopian fiction might help us imagine more sustainable economies. Simon is a Lecturer in Circular Economy at the University of Bradford, where he is working on issues around value, productivity and work in sustainable economies.
Hanif Malekpoor, University of Greenwich
Dr Hanif Malekpoor is a Research Fellow at the University of Greenwich with expertise in graph optimization, Multi-Criteria Decision making and mathematical. His research interests are focused on logistics, multi-modal transport, CO2 quantification. As a Post-Doc in University of Hull, he has worked on the LHOFT project in designing and development of optimization algorithms and quantifying GHG emission of different modes of transport. He completed his PhD in Business and Management from University of East Anglia in 2018. During his PhD studies he also worked on project TILOS (Horizon 2020 Low Carbon Energy Local/small-scale storage) and conducted research on sustainable electricity mix generation by renewable resources.
Lois Mansfield, University of Cumbria
As a formal partner of the Lake District National Park Partnership we wish to support them in the decarbonisation of travel into and around the Park to improve its special qualities . We wish to explore why there is business resistance to diverting away from a car economy, develop options and consider infrastructural needs. I represent the research Centre of National Parks & Protected Areas a multi-disciplinary team of researchers in the University.
Malcolm Morgan, University of Leeds
I am a Civil Engineer and Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies. My research interests are in the areas of decarbonising homes and transport with a particular focus on cycling. I am particularly interested in using GIS and big data techniques to understand how any why people use energy and where changes in urban form can promote low energy and low carbon lifestyles. I am also exploring better ways to analyse public transport accessibility and connectivity, especially where cycling and public transport can be combined.
Eleonora Morganti, University of Leeds
Eleonora Morganti is University Academic Fellow in Urban Food Consumption, Distribution and Sustainability, at the University of Leeds, sharing her work between the School of Food Science and the Institute for Transport Studies. Her research focuses on the last mile for food and the effects of new consumption and purchasing habits on the urban freight system. The food supply sector represents her main field of study, comparing different Food Hubs in urban areas in Europe and the Americas. Currently she is exploring ways to enhance the transition towards low-carbon transport in city logistics. Eleonora is part of the Urban Food Observatory at Global Food and Environment Institute at the University of Leeds.
Craig Morton, Loughborough University
Craig focuses his research activity in the areas of transport and energy demand modelling as well as customer experiences with transport services. He has a particular interest in the diffusion of new transport and energy technologies in terms of [a] the types of individuals that adopt such technologies, [b] the reasons for adoption, [c] how the diffusion of the technologies manifests spatially as well as temporally, and [d] what can be done to promote technology adoption. To pursue these interests, Craig draws on a diverse set of research methodologies including spatial and timeseries econometrics, psychometric modelling, and market appraisal techniques.
Trung Thanh Nguyen, Liverpool John Moores University
The LOOM (Liverpool Logistics, Offshore and Marine) Institute at Liverpool John Moores University is a leading research institute in transport/logistics, safety analysis and risk assessment.
Focussing on data analytics and machine learning in areas such as active travel, IoT and smart cities, this group has delivered a number of key, strategic projects for the Liverpool City Region (LCR), including
LCR Green Sustainable Travel Corridors: digital solutions to analyse data from IoT sensors measuring traffic, weather and Air Quality on key cycling/walking routes and incentivise active travel.
PopupWatch: monitoring/evaluating traffic on emergency popup cycling routes installed in the LCR.
Mind-My-Bumpy-Ride: machine learning model on mobile phones identifying potholes from cycling behaviours.
Alexandros Nikitas, University of Huddersfield
Dr Alexandros Nikitas is a Reader in Smart Transport for the University of Huddersfield and the Deputy Director of the local Behavioural Research Centre. He is in the Editorial Boards of two Elsevier Transport journals and has produced more than 80 papers and conference outputs. He studies the societal importance of sustainable mobility and autonomous, connected and shared transport. Earlier in his career Dr Nikitas was a Senior Researcher in Urban Futures and Transportation for Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden where he worked on FP7 and H2020 initiatives. He has been a visiting scholar for Tongji University and Chang’an University in China and EC’s Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy.
Alex Nurse, University of Liverpool
Alex Nurse is a Lecturer in Planning at the University of Liverpool. His research interests include sub-national governance, and urban cycling. He is a current EPSRC and Research England grant holder with projects relating to urban cycling during Covid-19.
Ayse Ozbil Torun, Northumbria University
Dr. Ayşe Özbil Torun is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University. Her research interests mainly lie in the fields of spatial modeling and urban form analysis using space syntax techniques. Her work is directed towards pedestrian-friendly neighbourhood and street design strategies enhancing active transportation in cities. Her recent studies have focused on walkability and obesity, transit-oriented planning, and design of sustainable cities.
Kate Pangbourne, University of Leeds
Kate Pangbourne MA(Hons), MSc, PhD has worked at ITS since June 2016. Qualified in Philosophy, English Literature, and Sustainable Rural Development she also has a geography PhD focused on Scottish transport governance (Aberdeen). Her research focuses on shifting our transport system and practices towards greater environmental sustainability, social inclusion and meaningful prosperity. She is particularly interested in the implications of the ongoing technological change in the transport sector. Current work includes improving the persuasiveness of travel behaviour messages (ADAPT), evaluating rural Mobility as a Service (Hitrans GO-HI) and smart mobility governance challenges. She is a Director of ACT Travelwise.
Dimitrios Pappas, University of Manchester
Dimitrios is part of the EnergyREV project WP2.1, examining business models of Smart Local Energy Systems in the UK. His doctoral research explored energy demand and emissions implications caused by the intra-regional industrial shifts between Asian developing economies using Index Decomposition and energy security analyses.
Dimitrios has additionally held Senior Research Associate (TILOS Horizon 2020, INTERREG VA – Intelligent Community Energy), RA at the University of East Anglia. Dimitrios holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Geotechnology and Environmental Engineering from the UoAS of Western Macedonia and an MSc in Energy (distinction) from Heriot Watt University.
Ben Parkes, University of Manchester
I am a Research Fellow in Manchester working on the topic of Climate Resilient Livelihoods. I am currently involved in projects on drop yield response to climate change, offshore renewable energy and decarbonising Manchester airport. I am interested in practical solutions to climate change and their deployment both in the UK and abroad.
Giuliano Punzo, University of Sheffield
Giuliano Punzo obtained a PhD in Swarm Engineering in 2014 from the University of Strathclyde. This was followed by postdoctoral appointments at The University of Strathclyde, the University of Glasgow, and The University of Sheffield, where he now holds a lectureship at the department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. Giuliano’s research interests are in the areas of networks and complex systems, with applications to socio-technical systems, which include infrastructure, and in particular transport.
Amar Ramudhin, Logistics Institute University of Hull
Professor Ramudhin is a supply chain expert with over 30 years of experience in logistics and multi-modal transport. He is the Director of the Logistics Institute at the University of Hull.
Graeme Sherriff, University of Salford
Dr Graeme Sherriff is Research Fellow at University of Salford and Co-director of the Sustainable Housing and Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) in the School of Health and Society. His research concerns the intersection of environmental sustainability and social justice, with particular emphasis on transport and energy. He recently led a study of dockless bike share in Greater Manchester and is now investigating the use of e-scooters in a Department for Transport trial in Salford and overseeing work on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. Graeme coordinates the Healthy Active Cities research group, a team focused on all aspects of sustainable and active travel.
Martin Taylor, University of Hull
My background is in heterogeneous catalysis, specifically in liquid and gas phase reactions utilizing hydrogen for the upgrade of biorenewble platform molecules. More recently I have been involved with a number of projects trialing augmented pretreatments for reforming lignocellulosic wastes into alternative solid fuels. My interest is in combining the use of sustainable nanomaterials with waste for the production of gaseous and liquid fuels through pyrolysis and gasification.
Zhongbei Tian, University of Liverpool
Dr Zhongbei Tian is a Lecturer in Electrical Energy Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, the University of Liverpool. He is also an Honorary Researcher at the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE), the University of Birmingham. Dr Zhongbei Tian’s research interests include railway traction power system modelling and analysis, energy-efficient train control, and sustainable transport energy systems integration and management. He has been working on projects funded by Horizon 2020, Network Rail, RSSB, and Innovate UK. His research has been implemented in Network Rail, Edinburgh Tram, Singapore Metro, Beijing Metro in China.
David Tyfield, Lancaster University
David Tyfield is Professor in Sustainable Transitions and Political Economy at the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), Lancaster University, and an Associate Director of Lancaster’s Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe). His research focuses on issues of low-carbon transition (and ‘ecological civilisation’ in China), especially urban e-mobility and associated infrastructures, which he has been studying since 2007. He has been PI and CoI on projects from UK Research Councils and the EU worth over £3M. His latest book is Liberalism 2.0 and the Rise of China: Global Crisis, Innovation, Urban Mobility (Routledge, 2018) and he is a co-editor of Mobilities journal.
Andrew Welfle, University of Manchester
Andrew is a Research Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at The University of Manchester. Andrew has a background and interests in environmental, energy and engineering themes, a strong track record undertaking sustainability, climate change and bioenergy research through developing modelling toolkits and analysis methodologies.
Andrew is a Topic Representative within the current UK Supergen Bioenergy Hub research programme where he works with academics, NGO, industry and government to promote the growth of a sustainable UK bioenergy sector. Andrew is also the author of the University Manchester’s Bioenergy Impact Case that demonstrates how Manchester’s bioenergy research has provided the science on which UK policies have been developed to support the deployment of UK low carbon heat bioenergy technologies.
Richard Weston, University of Central Lancashire
Sixteen plus years’ experience in researching cycling, particularly for leisure, but have a wider interest in active travel. In the past I have worked with several UK national parks, Sustrans, local authorities and a wide range of European organisations, including the European Parliament and Commission. Currently working with our local authority to increase the participation in cycling around Lancashire through a number of active and proposed projects.
Chee Yew Wong, University of Leeds
I have experience in using machine learning to analyse information and make predictions about demand and returns of products in supply chains (a current KTP project). I can contribute to the design of information systems (e.g., Blockchain, data analytics) for solutions e.g., mobility. I led a Newton Fund researchers link workshops on the use of technologies to address environmental issues in logistics. I was involved in a network+ on decarbonization of transport and another centre.
Ruth Wood, University of Manchester
My research interests are in assessing the carbon and energy system impacts of mitigation options and identifying climate impacts on mitigation options. I have experience of developing carbon accounting tools and budgets to assess both reduction targets and low carbon interventions and electricity load profiles.
Jiayu Wu, Royal College of Art
Dr. Wu is the Reader in Intelligent Mobility Design at the Intelligent Mobility Design Centre (IMDC) of the Royal College of Art (RCA). Her key research focus is user experience for transportation services and new mobility solutions including sub-topics such as User Interface (UI) design for info-systems, user experience design for products (vehicles, transportation apps and services) and future design prediction for alternative vehicle types and technologies (autonomous vehicle, electric vehicle and infrastructure, urban air mobility). She leads and works on collaborative innovation research projects with industry partners including Hyundai, Microsoft, Samsung, SIAC, Tata and VW.
Xinan Yang, University of Essex
Dr. Xinan Yang holds a PhD in Operational Research. Her main research interests lie in dynamic and stochastic optimisation in last-mile delivery and logistics, with applications covering decarbonisation in e-fulfilment, drone/robot assisted last-mile delivery, multi-fleet delivery network, multi-layer order sharing scheme, container transportation, etc. She has rich experience in industrial collaborations, current partner includes Ocado, MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company), QGO Logistics etc. Her research has been funded by KTP (two), ESRC (Impact fund), LMS (International Visitor and Conference Organisation) and various internal grants. Her project “Improving the efficiency of online grocery deliveries” won the “Best Research Impact in Enterprise and Innovation Award” in 2020.
Dewei Yi, University of Aberdeen
Dewei Yi’s research interests focus on personalised smart systems for adapting to different users according to their preferences and personal needs so that energy-efficiency can be improved significantly. For personalised systems, the fundamental challenge is the lack of personal data. To tackle the problem, he developed new unsupervised learning approaches to fast meet with individual requirements along with providing users personalised services. Moreover, he developed a new method to conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis of a personalised system to assess the performance of these systems. Alongside, he also pioneered research in computer vision and image processing, especially in multispectral/hyperspectral image analysis, and building causal models to link with decision-making. He is now particularly interested in explainable AI (XAI), generalised AI (GAI) and efficient machine learning, which make the decision-makings of AI-based systems more human-understandable (rather than treating as a black-box model), generalised better cross different domains, and more computing-efficient (especially in embedded systems).
Cheng Zeng, University of Hull
Hello, I’m Cheng, an early career research at the University of Hull looking at the application of low carbon technologies in buildings.
Zishang Zhu, University of Hull
Dr Zishang Zhu is a researcher active in green building design and optimisation, low-carbon city planning, renewable energy building integration.
Konstantinos Zografos, Lancaster University
Konstantinos G. Zografos is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Transport and Logistics (CENTRAL), at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS). His professional expertise, research and teaching interests include applications of Operational Research in Transportation and Logistics. Currently his work is focused on airport planning and operations, air traffic management, vehicle routing and scheduling, emergency response logistics, sustainable logistics, and shared mobility systems. In relation to the DECARBON8 project, Konstantinos’ research interests include the optimization of decisions regarding the development of infrastructure for alternative fuel vehicles (e,g. location of charging points for electric vehicles, location of fuelling stations for H2 vehicles), optimization of shared mobility systems, integration of fixed public transport services and vehicle sharing systems to enhance rural mobility.