Ling Min Tan

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Research Associate in Urban Decarbonisation

lingmin.tan@sheffield.ac.uk

E110a, Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)

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Ling Min Tan
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
E110a
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

Profile

I graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Master degree (MEng) in Mechanical Engineering in 2016, then subsequently joined the Resources, Infrastructure Systems, and built Environments (RISE) Research Group in the Department Civil and Structural Engineering to pursue her PhD research. I have been awarded a full PhD scholarship from the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures and completed my PhD degree in November 2020.

Ling Min's PhD work focuses on understanding and formulation of the effects of city economic and energetic characteristics on their resource consumption. My past research activity involves coordinating stakeholder engagement and collaborating with the local and regional governing authorities across the Sheffield City Region to develop a regional emissions budgeting framework aiming to address the regional needs in decarbonisation in order to meet the net zero goals.

My current research project involves working across disciplines to evaluate and implement best suitable techniques and methodologies to decarbonise urban material stocks in delivering a sustainable built environment.

Research interests: I am interested in industrial ecology related areas such as urban metabolism, circular economy, exergy economics and designs for sustainable urban systems through optimising the pattern of resources consumption and improved resource efficiency.

Publications

Journal articles

Arbabi H, Meyers G, Tan L-M & Mayfield M (2022) Comment on Bettignies et al. The scale-dependent behaviour of cities: a cross-cities multiscale driver analysis of urban energy use. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3246. Sustainability, 14(7). View this article in WRRO
Tan LM, Arbabi H, Densley Tingley DO, Paul B & Mayfield M (2021) Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems. npj Urban Sustainability, 1. View this article in WRRO
Arbabi H, Punzo G, Meyers G, Tan LM, Li Q, Densley Tingley D & Mayfield M (2020) On the use of random graphs in analysing resource utilization in urban systems. Royal Society Open Science, 7. View this article in WRRO
Tan LM, Arbabi H, Brockway P, Densley Tingley D & Mayfield M (2019) An Ecological-Thermodynamic Approach to Urban Metabolism: Measuring Resource Utilization with Open System Network Effectiveness Analysis. Applied Energy. View this article in WRRO
Tan LM, Arbabi H, Li Q, Sheng Y, Densley Tingley D, Mayfield M & Coca D (2019) Corrigendum to “Ecological network analysis on intra-city metabolism of functional urban areas in England and Wales” [Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 138 (2018) 172–182]. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 145, 457-457.
Tan LM, Arbabi H, Li Q, Sheng Y, Densley Tingley D, Mayfield M & Coca D (2018) Ecological network analysis on intra-city metabolism of functional urban areas in England and Wales. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 138, 172-182. View this article in WRRO
Arbabi H, Tan LM & Mayfield M (2018) Comments on ‘A multi-level framework for metabolism in urban energy systems from an ecological perspective’ by Pulido Barrera et al. (2018). Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 136, 463-465. View this article in WRRO

Chapters

Arbabi H & Tan LM (2021) Resource effectiveness in and across urban systems In Brears R (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. View this article in WRRO

Research group: Resources, Infrastructure Systems & built Environments