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Co-directors
Professor
Solomon
Brown
Professor of Process and Energy Systems
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
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s.f.brown@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7597
Professor
Darren
Robinson
Chair in Architectural and Urban Sciences
School of Architecture and Landscape
My research sits at the interface between social physics (people), building physics (buildings) and urban physics (city). I am also interested in predictive models of resource use and influence.
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d.robinson1@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 2220 308
Management team
Professor
Lenny
Koh
Cross Cutting Chief, Strategic Futures on Resource Sustainability (SCRS)
Management School
Professor Lenny Koh, is a Chair Professor in Operations Management, Founders and Directors of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre at the Management School.
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s.c.l.koh@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 3395
Professor
Ben
Hughes
Professor of Energy Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: fundamental & applied focussed low carbon heating and cooling in the built environment | decarbonised heating & cooling | thermal energy storage
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ben.hughes@sheffield.ac.uk
Members
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m.akram@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3655
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e.alborzi@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7815
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e.e.ballantyne@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3378
Professor
Solomon
Brown
Professor of Process and Energy Systems
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
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s.f.brown@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7597
Dr
Jonathan
Davidson
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Power electronic converters and drives, Piezoelectric transformer-based power supplies, Electrical sensing of water systems, Thermal modelling and temperature estimation.
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jonathan.davidson@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor
Danielle
Densley Tingley
Professor in Circular Construction
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: sustainable building design solutions | built environment | circular economy | energy flow | strategic retrofit
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d.densleytingley@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor
Nicola
Dibben
Professor of Music
School of Languages, Arts and Societies
Music cognition, popular music, and digital music media. Focus areas: Human-AI music generation, XR music media, and ecological engagement—partnering with tech innovators, musicians, and industry.
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n.j.dibben@sheffield.ac.uk
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- 0114 2220480
Professor
Patrick
Fairclough
Professor of Polymer and Composite Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: polymers, soft materials & composite systems | epoxy resins | mould-free manufacturing of carbon fibre composites
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p.fairclough@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7798
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k.n.finney@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 270 3085
Professor
Martin
Foster
Professor of Energy Storage & Conversion
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Resonant power supplies, Piezoelectric transformers (PTs), Power electronics packaging and thermal management, Multilevel power convertersand Battery management technologies.
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m.p.foster@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor
David
Fletcher
Professor of Railway Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: railway rail-wheel interface | overhead line electrification | rail system design for safety and security | network modelling and optimisation
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d.i.fletcher@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 7760
Professor
Jon
Gibbins
Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: carbon capture & storage | coal & biomass gasification & combustion | power plant engineering
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j.gibbins@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 215 7234
Dr
Prosanta
Gope
Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity
School of Computer Science
Research interests: Hardware Security of the IoT Devices, 5G and Next Generation Communication Security, Decentralized Communication Security
Security & Privacy in Tactile-Internet-based Applications
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p.gope@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr
Matthew
Hobbs
Lecturer in Semiconductor Materials and Devices
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Non-contact temperature measurements - infrared radiation thermometry (IRT), Hyperspectral Imaging, Luminescence Sensing and Instrumentation and Aerosol Jet Printing (AJP).
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m.hobbs@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor
Shuisheng
He
Professor of Thermofluids
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: fluid mechanics & heat transfer | nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics | fundamental study in turbulence, transition and drag reduction
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s.he@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 2227756
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m.hosseinzadeh@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3331
Dr
Kevin
Hughes
Senior Lecturer
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: combustion, fuel degradation & deposit formation | pollutant chemistry, proton exchange membrane fuel cells | process modelling in carbon capture & storage systems
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K.J.Hughes@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 21 57214
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M.Keskin@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3388
Dr
Hajime
Kinoshita
Visiting academic
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Development and application of industrial by-products and natural minerals for waste management, from nuclear industry to exhaust flue gas for CO2 capture
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h.kinoshita@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5930
Professor
Mathieu
Lucquiaud
Professor
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: climate change technologies | carbon capture technologies | zero carbon electricity and hydrogen | decarbonisation of heavy industries
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m.lucquiaud@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 215 7216
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n.martin@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 215 9401
Dr
Natalia
Martsinovich
Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Chemistry
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Theoretical & Computational chemistry, surfaces and interfaces, adsorption and self-assembly, electron transfer, materials for photocatalysis and solar cells, soil minerals.
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n.martsinovich@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 9562
Professor
Martin
Mayfield-Tulip
Head of School
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: infrastructure | sustainable design | built environment | systems engineering | climate change mitigation & adaptation | mission critical systems | city systems
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martin.mayfield@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5054
Professor
Anthony J. H. M.
Meijer
Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, Astrochemistry, Quantum Dynamics; Reactive Scattering; Chemical Reaction Dynamics; High-Performance Computing.
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a.meijer@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 9482
Dr
Alisyn
Nedoma
Lecturer
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Polymers | Batteries | Drug-delivery | Biologicals
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a.nedoma@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7516
Professor
Bill
Nimmo
Professor of Energy Engineering and Sustainability
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: biomass combustion | biomass gasification | anaerobic digestion | waste to energy | corrosion studies | coal combustion/gasification
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w.nimmo@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 215 7213
Dr
Christophe
Pinna
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: mechanics of materials | fatigue | fracture | manufacturing process modelling | experimental and computational mechanics
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c.pinna@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 7831
Dr
Richard
Parker
Student Voice Lead for Physics and Astronomy
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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r.parker@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3560
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j.provis@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5490
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a.ramadan@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 4355
Professor
Darren
Robinson
Chair in Architectural and Urban Sciences
School of Architecture and Landscape
My research sits at the interface between social physics (people), building physics (buildings) and urban physics (city). I am also interested in predictive models of resource use and influence.
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d.robinson1@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 2220 308
Dr
Charles
Rougé
Senior Lecturer in Water Resilience
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: complex water resource systems | water infrastructure design | low carbon economy | bridging water engineering and hydrology with power systems engineering
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c.rouge@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 5723
Professor
Anthony J.
Ryan, OBE
Professor of Physical Chemistry
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Polymer Nanotechnology (synthesis, processing, self-assembly, structure-property relations), Public engagement in science and technology.
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a.ryan@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 9382
Lisa
Shepley
PA to the Head of the Energy Innovation Centre & Administration Officer
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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L.Shepley@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 215 7224
Professor
Francisco Saldanha
da Gama
Head of Operations Management and Decision Sciences Subject Group
Management School
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Francisco.Saldanha-da-Gama@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 3225
Dr
Spiridon
Siouris
Research Fellow, Aviation Fuels and Lubricants
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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s.siouris@sheffield.ac.uk
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- 44 114 215 7245
Dr
Nick
Taylor Buck
Research Fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences
Nick specialised in sustainable design and assessment.
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n.taylor-buck@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 7989683218
Professor
Steve
Thornton
Professor in Environmental Engineering Science
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
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s.f.thornton@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5744
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d.poggio@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 215 7218
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j.provis@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5490
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s.vernuccio@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7519
Professor
Brant
Walkley
Professor of Sustainable Engineering
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Cement chemistry and engineering | decarbonisation of the built environment |materials for radioactive waste treatment
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b.walkley@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 7528
Dr
Parag
Wate
Lecturer in Architectural Science
School of Architecture and Landscape
I am interested in developing building physics and machine learning based evidence for net zero energy strategies and related fuel poverty and public health policies in the built environment sector.
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p.wate@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr
Karl P
Travis
Reader in Computational Physics and Nuclear Waste Disposal
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste | Non-equilibrium Simulation | Liquid state chemical physics | Development of computational methodology
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k.travis@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5483
Professor
Julia A.
Weinstein
Professor of Physical Chemistry
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Photochemistry, photophysics, time-resolved spectroscopy, luminescence, light-induced electron transfer in chemical and biological systems, solar energy conversion, ultrafast excited state dynamics.
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julia.weinstein@sheffield.ac.uk
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y.wu@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 7514
Dr
Ruoyang
Yuan
Senior Lecturer in Fuels and Combustion
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research interests: optical diagnostics | fluid machinery/mechanics | turbulent combustion | heat transfer | multiphase flows | gas turbine application/internal combustion engines
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ruoyang.yuan@sheffield.ac.uk
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z.q.zhu@sheffield.ac.uk
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- +44 114 222 5195
Professor
Will
Zimmerman
Professor of Biochemical Dynamical Systems
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Microbubble mediated intensification of chemical and bioprocessing | Fluid dynamics | Transport phenomena and multiphase flow
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w.zimmerman@sheffield.ac.uk
- Telephone
- +44 114 222 7517